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Show HN: Convert a Google Drive Document to the Markdown format
- zachlatta 13y agoPerfect 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.
- jakerocheleau 13y agoSeriously Github has been such a pleasant surprise time-and-again. I love to find these little nooks & crannies hidden among all the other repos.
- jelled 13y agoThis looks great, thanks!
- josteink 13y agoWow. 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.
- adv0r 13y agoGood idea I would love to use it. But it doens't convert much as for now : i tried bold, italic, and Titles ... nothing happened
- kalli 13y agoThis 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?
- artursapek 13y agoI was just wishing for this yesterday! Wow.
- Thrymr 13y agoNow 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.
- tudorconstantin 13y agoAwesome. I have about 86546774 docs to convert now.
- boneheadmed 13y agoThis is great. Can anyone suggest a good place to go for tutorials or more information for writing Google Apps scripts such as this?
- pyre 13y agoIs this a Google employee? The license is Copyright Google: Copyright 2013 Google Inc
- filleokus 13y agoGoogle 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!
- aroch 13y agoCare 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/ http://quartzy.com/
- chillericed 13y agoThanks for sharing this!
- StolenCar 13y agoI have tried this with several documents. No luck. I get "TypeError: Cannot call method "getActiveSection" of null." Same when I select something or not.