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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 /files/export as per the migration guide, but it doesn't appear that endpoint offers any method to select the export format.
So, is Markdown export still a thing, and if so, how do I do it?
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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- Greg-DB
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That's correct, please give it a try and let us know if you run in to any issues or have any questions. Thanks!
That’s great news, thanks very much! Excellent timing - I’ve got a good little project to test this out on.
Awesome! Thank you.
Another vote for Markdown export. My main day-to-day file use is via plain text files using .md markup (actually, the multimarkdown flavor, but straight Gruber markdown is fine). Maybe just not a lot of us doing that, but we are an evangelist bunch, so wouldn't hurt if DB took another look at the pro/con.
Even without Export to Markdown, at a minimum, I'd expect that my .md files viewed with the Dropbox app would at least DISPLAY the text formatted according to markdown syntax. As is, none of my .md text files display as expected. One afternoon of coding could fix this.
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