Copy to paper dropbox full#

You can view a simplified live demo version of our Playbook. We’re using Netlify to build and deploy a new version of our site on every code change. The code of our project, including the VuePress setup and Paper API integration, are on GitHub. We’re already using VuePress, so we’re using this to publish our documents as a static site. Markdown files with Front Matter are a popular input format for static site generators. With our content from Dropbox Paper written to our filesystem we can do with it whatever we like.

Copy to paper dropbox full#

The full source of the Paper API integration is on GitHub. We love sharing our learnings and experiences with others. For example a document written to playbook/voorhoede-events/meetups.md would look like: We write the data from the API into a folder structure, with a markdown file for each document containing the content plus the meta data as Front Matter (data in YAML format in between triple dashed lines) at the top.

Finally we download the contents of each document as markdown.

We then get the meta data of each document to filter out “deleted” documents and gather useful meta data like “date last updated”.

We start by listing all documents and getting all folders within our project root folder, filtering by our DIRECTORY_ID.We use the Dropbox Paper API to retrieve the folders, documents and their metadata:

Through the familiar Dropbox Paper UI ( ) we write our content in Paper documents and organise them in folders:įrom the URL of our root folder ( ), we extract its DIRECTORY_ID (in our case e.1g.Mxe), so we can access it programmatically through the API. Organise and edit content on Dropbox Paper However the Paper UI isn’t ideal for reading, browsing and navigating and a folder with documents doesn’t feel like it’s our playbook. This makes Paper a perfect CMS candidate for document collections like our company playbook. We can write in markdown, add rich media, organise documents in folders, content is automatically versioned and others can give feedback in comments. Note: originally posted on, so you could read it there too :) We turned Dropbox Paper into a headless CMS and use it to publish our content elsewhere.