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Show HN: Gdocs-me-up: a high-fidelity Google Docs exporter
Over the years I had written dozens of Google Docs documents, that I wanted to post to my website. Not only Google Docs's publish feature is broken and incomplete, Google does not index Google Docs either. So I set out to fix it for myself using AI agents. Sharing here in case someone else finds it useful.
- arshxyz 13d agoAmazing how many products exist purely due to Google's lack of motivation to do things right. Will be using this a lot. Does Google Apps Script expose an API to do this though? It would be easier to download an html page from within GDocs without having to run something locally.
- snoopen 13d agoI haven't had a detailed look but yeah, I think most of this could be rolled into a Google App Script and made into an add-on. I actually did something similar years ago but for exporting to html for email, going through a few libraries for html and CSS manipulation and inlining.
- behdad 12d agoPossibly. I wasn't determined enough to look into that. Plus, it's easier for me to batch download my documents from the terminal. Note that it will be a HTML plus directory of images, so you need to return an archive.
- adityamishra241 13d agoThis looks really useful. Does it also preserve images, tables, and formatting when exporting from Google Docs?
- behdad 12d agoI use it extensively to preserve images and formatting, in the pageless layout. I haven't tested it much with tables. Give it a try and file issues if it doesn't work well and I'll pass on to my agents. Thanks!
- 97-109-107 13d agoThank you for publishing this. After years of trying to edit things locally and share/publish on Google Docs I gave up. You either have to commit fully to Google Docs or sidestep. I'm sidestepping with smalldocs at this time.
- hwc 13d agoBehdad, why isn't this just part of Google Docs?
- behdad 12d agoGood question, isn't it? GDocs has a "publish to web" feature, but it's vastly broken and loses formatting and image sizing and everything. It's just not priority for Google.