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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...
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.
Greg-DB
Dropbox Staff
Dropbox StaffNo, 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.
Okay, thanks. That would have been really useful - I've looked at the HTML export, but it looks like there's a lot 'baked in' there: styles, UI stuff, etc. If markdown isn't a possibility, perhaps a simplified 'semantic tags' only HTML version might be do-able?
Just a heads-up: there are still a number of Dropbox-hosted blog posts and guides out there that talk about markdown export, with no mention of deprecation. Might be good to add some notes to prevent confusion.
- Greg-DB
Thanks for the feedback! I'll send this along as well.
+1
I'm suprised this feature has dissapeared without any mentioning of it in the Paper Migration Guide. For us the Markdown export is an essential feature that would prevent us from using the 'paper_as_files' account in our current API integration.
Markdown is supported by wide a range of tools and libraries, thanks to its simplicity and well defined syntax. Therefor it seems much more appropriate as an export format for the API compared to HTML. Also converting Markdown to HTML (and applying styles) is very straight forward, the other way around not so much.
Hopefully this feature can be (re)implemented in the near future!
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.
Thanks
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