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companion
Helpful | Level 6
6 years ago
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Does Paper still support export as Markdown?

I'm trying to use the Dropbox API to access Paper documents as markdown. I have a connected app and a user with the new version of Paper (paper_as_files: enabled). I've switched from docs/download to...
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  • Greg-DB's avatar
    Greg-DB
    6 years ago

    No, unfortunately /2/files/export doesn't support exporting as Markdown, nor is there another way do that in a 'paper_as_files' account, but I'll pass this along as a feature request. I can't promise if or when that might be implemented though. 

    Update: the /2/files/export endpoint now supports exporting .paper files as Markdown.

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Daiki Noda
New member | Level 2
5 years ago

+1. Markdown-exporting helps us when backup documents.

    • Greg-DB's avatar
      Greg-DB
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      4 years ago

      That's correct, please give it a try and let us know if you run in to any issues or have any questions. Thanks!

      • companion's avatar
        companion
        Helpful | Level 6
        4 years ago

        That’s great news, thanks very much! Excellent timing - I’ve got a good little project to test this out on.

    • Daiki Noda's avatar
      Daiki Noda
      New member | Level 2
      4 years ago

      Awesome! Thank you.

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