Show HN: Convert a Google Drive Document to the Markdown format

Perfect 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.

Wow. I was looking into Google Apps scripts earlier and dismissed it because of lacking support across Google Docs products.<p>Seems like things have improved lately. I might look into this again.

This looks like a very useful tool, thanks.<p>Which ways are people using to go the other way, i.e. from markdown to a Google Document?

Google 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!

Is this a Google employee? The license is Copyright Google:<p><pre><code> Copyright 2013 Google Inc</code></pre>

I have tried this with several documents. No luck. I get &quot;TypeError: Cannot call method &quot;getActiveSection&quot; of null.&quot; Same when I select something or not.

Now 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.

This is great. Can anyone suggest a good place to go for tutorials or more information for writing Google Apps scripts such as this?

This looks great, thanks!

Awesome. I have about 86546774 docs to convert now.

I was just wishing for this yesterday! Wow.

Thanks for sharing this!