Show HN: Convert a Google Drive Document to the Markdown format(github.com)

Show HN: Convert a Google Drive Document to the Markdown format

https://github.com/mangini/gdocs2md

19 comments

Perfect timing! I have about 200 Google Documents that I've always planned to move over to a repository on Github. The only thing holding me back was the poor .txt exports of Google Documents.

jakerocheleau13 anni fa

Seriously Github has been such a pleasant surprise time-and-again. I love to find these little nooks & crannies hidden among all the other repos.

josteink13 anni fa

Wow. I was looking into Google Apps scripts earlier and dismissed it because of lacking support across Google Docs products.

Seems like things have improved lately. I might look into this again.

kalli13 anni fa

This looks like a very useful tool, thanks.

Which ways are people using to go the other way, i.e. from markdown to a Google Document?

nxpnsv13 anni fa

pandoc.

kalli13 anni fa

Looks good, thanks for the tip

filleokus13 anni fa

Google Apps script proved to be extremley useful recently when I created a small menu item that created Calendar events from a spreadsheet. Took a lunch break and 30 lines of JS to make a really efficient enterprisey interface to make large amounts of events. You can even send invites with the API!

aroch13 anni fa

Care to share how you've done this? We've been looking to do similar in our laboratory for the various instruments we run user samples on (HPLCs/xray/NMR). We've been using gCalendar so far, but it's not always user friendly + we have to add users to the calendar manually before they can reserve instrument / consultation time. We've started using Quartzy[1] but it suffers from the same "must approve users first" model and we've accepted its clunkiness in the name of consolidation

______ [1]http://quartzy.com/

pyre13 anni fa

Is this a Google employee? The license is Copyright Google:

  Copyright 2013 Google Inc

insteadof13 anni fa

Their profile says yes.

rmangini13 anni fa

Yes, I am a Google employee, but this script is not official. I created it to handle some Chrome documentation tasks, but thought it could be useful to others.

StolenCar13 anni fa

I have tried this with several documents. No luck. I get "TypeError: Cannot call method "getActiveSection" of null." Same when I select something or not.

Thrymr13 anni fa

Now if only the format of the document synced to Google Drive was a usable one like Markdown instead of a link that is unusable locally.

boneheadmed13 anni fa

This is great. Can anyone suggest a good place to go for tutorials or more information for writing Google Apps scripts such as this?

jelled13 anni fa

This looks great, thanks!

tudorconstantin13 anni fa

Awesome. I have about 86546774 docs to convert now.

artursapek13 anni fa

I was just wishing for this yesterday! Wow.

chillericed13 anni fa

Thanks for sharing this!

adv0r13 anni fa