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Does Paper still support export as Markdown?

Does Paper still support export as Markdown?

companion
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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?

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Greg-DB
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@entotto Thanks for the feedback! I'll pass this along to the team.

 

@euxn No, unfortunately I don't have an update on this.

companion
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As this topic still gets at least sporadic activity, I thought it was worth mentioning that the Dropbox Paper help guides still say that you can export Paper docs to .docx or markdown format: https://help.dropbox.com/da-dk/files-folders/paper/export-docs

bram_l
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@companion wrote:

As this topic still gets at least sporadic activity, I thought it was worth mentioning that the Dropbox Paper help guides still say that you can export Paper docs to .docx or markdown format: https://help.dropbox.com/da-dk/files-folders/paper/export-docs


Yes it's possible to export Dropbox Paper documents to Markdown using the web interface, but unfortunately it's still not in the new API.. The conversion itself works great, and it would be extremely helpful if this functionality could be implemented in the API.

 

Imearive
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I think that you have missed something during magiration. You can check document and save name in lower case.

Greg-DB
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Yes, to clarify, as linked above, exporting a Paper doc as Markdown from an account with the new Paper setup is possible manually via the web site. The original request here is for the ability to do so programmatically, via the API, which is not currently possible.

diventi
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I'll add a +1 to this feature request. We need an option to export as markdown via the API! Thank you 🙂

Greg-DB
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@diventi Thanks for the note!

petergoes
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At our company we use the current /paper/ endpoint to extract papers in markdown format.

I have been trying to migrate to the Dropbox API, but as mentioned, it only returns HTML. Since the exported HTML does not have semantics included (No <h1>...<h6>), lists items are all wrapped in <ul>'s seperatly, I can not transform the exported HTML back to markdown.

 

We would love to have the ability to export to markdown, to use Dropbox Paper as a CMS like we described in this blog post: Dropbox Paper as a headless CMS 

Greg-DB
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@petergoes Thanks for the feedback!

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

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