gatsby-source-gdocs2md v1.0.0

This is a fork of gatsby-source-google-docs. All credit goes to the original author.

gatsby-source-gdocs2md

gatsby-source-gdocs2md is a Gatsby plugin to transform Google Docs to markdown files.

• 🖋 Best online WYSIWYG editor
• 🖥 Desktop web app
• 📱 Mobile app
• 🛩 Offline redaction
• 🔥 No need for external CMS
• ✅ No more content in your source code

Features

• Google Docs formatting options (headings, bullets, tables, images...)
• MDX support to use <ReactComponents /> in your documents
• Gatsby v3 & v2 support
• gatsby-plugin-image and gatsby-image support
• Code blocs support
• Gatsby Cloud support
• Slug generation from Google Drive tree
• Crosslinks between pages
• Related content
• Custom metadata to enhance documents

Installation

Download gatsby-source-gdocs2md and gatsby-transformer-remark (or gatsby-plugin-mdx for advanced usage)

yarn add gatsby-source-gdocs2md gatsby-transformer-remark

• gatsby-source-gdocs2md transform Google Docs to Markdown
• gatsby-transformer-remark transform Markdown to HTML
• gatsby-plugin-mdx transform Markdown to MDX

Token generation

The package needs 3 .env variables.

GOOGLE_OAUTH_CLIENT_ID=2...m.apps.googleusercontent.com
GOOGLE_OAUTH_CLIENT_SECRET=Q...axL
GOOGLE_DOCS_TOKEN={"access_token":"ya...J0","refresh_token":"1..mE","scope":"https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.metadata.readonly https://www.googleapis.com/auth/documents.readonly","token_type":"Bearer","expiry_date":1598284554759}

gatsby-source-gdocs2md expose a script to generate it.

• Open a terminal at the root of your project
• Type the following command

gatsby-source-gdocs2md-token

Usage

Organize your documents

Go to your Google Drive, create a folder and put some documents inside it.

↳ 🗂 Root folder
    ↳ 🗂 en `locale: en` `skip: true`
        ↳ 📝 Home 
        ↳ 📝 About
        ↳ 🗂 Posts 
            ↳ 🗂 Drafts `exclude: true`
                ↳ 📝 Draft 1
            ↳ 📝 My year 2020 `date: 2021-01-01`
            ↳ 📝 Post 2 `slug: /custom/slug`
    ↳ 🗂 fr `locale: fr`
        ↳ 📝 Accueil

• Fill the document (or folder) description field in Google Drive with a YAML object

locale: fr
template: post
category: Category Name
tags: [tag1, tag2]
slug: /custom-slug
date: 2019-01-01

There are special metadata

• For folders:
  • exclude: true: Exclude the folder and its documents
  • skip: true: Remove the folder from slug but keep its documents
• For documents:
  • index:true: Use document as the folder index

• Spread metadata into the tree using folders metadata.

⬆️ For the tree example above:

• "en" folder will be removed from slug because of skip: true

• Exclude folders and documents using exclude: true. Perfect to keep drafts documents. One you want to publish a page, just move the document one level up.

⬆️ For the tree example above:

• Documents under Drafts will be exclude because of exclude: true.

• Every metadata will be available in GoogleDocs nodes and you can use everywhere in you Gatsby site

Add an image in your Google Document first page header

slug and breadcrumb fields add automatically generated using the folders tree structure and transformed using kebab-case.

⬆️ For the tree example above: The GoogleDocs node for document My year 2020

{
    path: "/en/posts/my-year-2020" // Original Google Drive path
    slug: "/posts/my-year-2020" // `en` is out because of `skip: true`
    breadcrumb: [
        {name: "Posts", slug: "/posts"},
        {name: "My year 2020", slug: "/posts/my-year-2020"},
    ],
    locale: "fr",
    date: "2021-01-01" // Fixed date !
}

The GoogleDocs node for document Post 2 will have a custom slug

{
    path: "/en/posts/post-2"
    slug: "/custom/slug"
    breadcrumb: [
        {name: "Posts", slug: "/posts"},
        {name: "Post 2", slug: "/custom/slug"},
    ],
    locale: "en",
    date: "2020-09-12" // Google Drive document creation date
}

You also can add metadata (locale, date ...) to your documents.

Add the plugin to your gatsby-config.js file

module.exports = {
    plugins: [
        {
            resolve: "gatsby-source-gdocs2md",
            options: {
                // https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/FOLDER_ID
                folder: "FOLDER_ID",
                // defaults to src/pages
                target: "FOLDER_PATH",
            },
        },
        "gatsby-transformer-remark",
        //
        // OR "gatsby-plugin-mdx" for advanced usage using MDX
        //
        // You need some transformations?
        // Checkout https://www.gatsbyjs.com/plugins/?=gatsby-remark
        // And pick-up some plugins
    ],
}

gatsby-plugin-sharp, gatsby-transformer-sharp and gatsby-remark-images are required if you want to take advantage of gatsby-image blur-up technique.

yarn add gatsby-plugin-sharp gatsby-transformer-sharp gatsby-remark-images

module.exports = {
    plugins: [
        "gatsby-source-gdocs2md",
        "gatsby-plugin-sharp",
        "gatsby-transformer-sharp",
        {
            resolve: "gatsby-transformer-remark",
            options: {
                plugins: ["gatsby-remark-images"],
            },
        },
    ],
}

Use Code Blocks Google Docs extension to format your code blocks.

To specify the lang, you need to add a fist line in your code block following the format lang:javascript.

To get Syntax highlighting, I recommend using prismjs but it's not mandatory.

yarn add gatsby-remark-prismjs prismjs

Add the gatsby-remark-prismjs plugin to your gatsby-config.js

module.exports = {
    plugins: [
        "gatsby-source-gdocs2md",
        {
            resolve: "gatsby-transformer-remark",
            options: {
                plugins: ["gatsby-remark-prismjs"],
            },
        },
    ],
}

Import a prismjs theme in your gatsby-browser.js

require("prismjs/themes/prism.css")

Trigger production builds

• Go to Google Drive example folder
• Create a copy of Trigger Gatsby Build file using Right Click -> Create a copy
• Open your copy and update the Build Webhook URL in A2
• Click the Deploy button to trigger a new build

This method works with any hosting services: Gatsby Cloud, Netlify...