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companion
Helpful | Level 6
5 years ago

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...
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  • Greg-DB's avatar
    Greg-DB
    5 years ago

    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.

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Greg-DB
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4 years ago

That's correct, please give it a try and let us know if you run in to any issues or have any questions. Thanks!

  • companion's avatar
    companion
    Helpful | Level 6
    4 years ago

    That’s great news, thanks very much! Excellent timing - I’ve got a good little project to test this out on.

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