Show HN: Gdocs-me-up: a high-fidelity Google Docs exporter

Posted by behdad 12 hours ago

Over the years I had written dozens of Google Docs documents, that I wanted to post to my website. Not only Google Docs's publish feature is broken and incomplete, Google does not index Google Docs either. So I set out to fix it for myself using AI agents. Sharing here in case someone else finds it useful.

Comments

Comment by hwc 44 minutes ago

Behdad, why isn't this just part of Google Docs?

Comment by 97-109-107 3 hours ago

Thank you for publishing this.

After years of trying to edit things locally and share/publish on Google Docs I gave up.

You either have to commit fully to Google Docs or sidestep. I'm sidestepping with smalldocs at this time.

Comment by arshxyz 6 hours ago

Amazing how many products exist purely due to Google's lack of motivation to do things right. Will be using this a lot.

Does Google Apps Script expose an API to do this though? It would be easier to download an html page from within GDocs without having to run something locally.

Comment by snoopen 34 minutes ago

I haven't had a detailed look but yeah, I think most of this could be rolled into a Google App Script and made into an add-on. I actually did something similar years ago but for exporting to html for email, going through a few libraries for html and CSS manipulation and inlining.

Comment by adityamishra241 6 hours ago

This looks really useful. Does it also preserve images, tables, and formatting when exporting from Google Docs?