Export Markdown Content to Google Docs Document
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Automate the transformation of your Markdown content into polished Google Docs. This workflow efficiently converts structured Markdown into HTML, embeds essential metadata, and prepares a new, perfectly formatted Google Doc in your specified Drive folder, streamlining your content publishing process.
About This Workflow
This n8n workflow provides a seamless solution for preparing and creating Google Docs from Markdown-formatted content. It begins by ingesting your Markdown text and transforming it into rich HTML, preserving formatting like tables and emojis. Before the document creation, it intelligently embeds a direct link to the Google Drive folder for easy navigation. The workflow then dynamically names your new Google Doc with a publication prefix, title, and timestamp, ensuring organized content. Finally, it creates a new Google Doc in your designated Drive folder, setting the stage for collaboration or distribution and simplifying your content management tasks significantly.
Key Features
- Markdown to HTML Conversion: Automatically transforms your Markdown content into high-fidelity HTML, supporting tables, emojis, and more.
- Dynamic Document Naming: Generates unique Google Doc titles incorporating a custom prefix, your content title, and a timestamp for effortless organization.
- Automated Google Drive Integration: Prepares and creates new Google Docs directly in your specified Google Drive folder, streamlining document management.
- Embedded Metadata: Inserts the Google Drive folder URL directly into the document content, providing quick access to its location.
- Configurable Inputs: Easily set your Markdown content, desired document title, and target Google Drive URL via intuitive
Setnodes.
How To Use
- Start the Workflow: Trigger the workflow manually using the "When clicking ‘Test workflow’" node for initial setup and testing. For production use, connect it to your preferred trigger (e.g., a webhook receiving Markdown, a scheduled execution).
- Configure Input Data: In the "Set Input Data" node, update the
Google Drive URLvariable with the exact URL of your target Google Drive folder. Also, set theContent Titleand paste your desiredConten in Markdowninto the respective fields. - Adjust Markdown Conversion (Optional): If needed, modify the "Change Markdown To HTML" node's
optionsto customize how Markdown is converted (e.g., disable emojis, change table parsing). - Google Drive Authentication: Ensure your "Create Empty File" (Google Drive) node is correctly authenticated with a Google Drive OAuth2 API credential that has permission to create files in your specified folder.
- Complete Document Content (Important): This workflow prepares the HTML and creates a new Google Doc shell. To fully insert the HTML content into the newly created Google Doc, you will likely need to add an additional Google Docs node (e.g., "Update Document" or "Append Content") after the "Wait for Document Creation" node. This node would use the
fileIdobtained from the "Create Empty File" node and the HTML content prepared earlier in the workflow.
Apps Used
Workflow JSON
{
"id": "8fc0191b-54c1-4a08-8eb8-e5803ac8e104",
"name": "Export Markdown Content to Google Docs Document",
"nodes": 21,
"category": "Operations",
"status": "active",
"version": "1.0.0"
}Note: This is a sample preview. The full workflow JSON contains node configurations, credentials placeholders, and execution logic.
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