dropbox-paper-export-2020plus v1.0.2

Dropbox Paper Export 2020+

A command-line tool to export your Dropbox Paper docs

Dropbox Paper is a great tool for collaborative document editing. Thanks, Dropbox, for giving us such a great tool!

Unfortunately, with modern versions of Dropbox Paper, there's no way to do bulk exports of all your documents. I can't really justify using Dropbox Paper unless there's a way for me to backup my documents. So I built one!

Features

• Export all your documents, or just one directory
• Export to Markdown or HTML
• Efficient incremental updates, so subsequent runs happen really fast
• Your authentication details remain on your computer, nobody else ever sees them

Quick start

1. Make sure you have Node.js installed, including npm.
2. Install this package globally with npm install -g dropbox-paper-export-2020plus.
3. Run dropbox-paper-export -v ~/paper. You'll be prompted for authentication, and it will download all your documents the paper directory within your home folder. It will take a minute or two.
4. Later on, just keep running dropbox-paper-export -v ~/paper any time you want to pull in new changes. Docs will be updated, moved or deleted to reflect the changes you made in Dropbox.

Usage

dropbox-paper-export [options] <output-directory>

Options:

-v, --verbose : Print out messages about what's happening

--formats FORMATS : Export to all the given formats, comma-separated. Defaults to html,md

--directory DIR : Export just the Paper docs in the given Dropbox directory

--fresh : Don't do an incremental update, but start from scratch

Advanced options

--client-id ID : Use a different Dropbox client ID for authorization, instead of the one bundled with this app. Mostly useful if too many people use this tool! See Dropbox's getting started guide for developers.