Copy Trello Board as text or markdown

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Copy Trello Board as text or markdown

Wouldn't it be nice to copy out your Trello board as plain text or markdown to be able to put it in a weekly memo, shipping notice or release notes? Now you can!

How to use this

Copy this line of JS and paste it into the CONSOLE in your browser. The results will be saved to your clipboard.

Option 1: Copy your Trello Board as Markdown

This will copy your columns + cards as markdown right to left

var s = []; s.push("# " + jQuery(".board-header").children()[0].innerText); jQuery.fn.reverse = [].reverse; jQuery(".list:has(.list-header-name)").reverse().each(function() {s.push("\n## " + jQuery(this).find(".list-header-name-assist")[0].innerText + "\n"); jQuery(this).find(".list-card-title").each(function() {s.push("* " + this.innerText); }); }); copy(s.join("\n"));

Option 2: Copy your Trello Board as Markdown

This will copy columns + cards as markdown, left to right

var s = []; s.push("# " + jQuery(".board-header").children()[0].innerText); jQuery(".list:has(.list-header-name)").each(function() {s.push("\n## " + jQuery(this).find(".list-header-name-assist")[0].innerText + "\n"); jQuery(this).find(".list-card-title").each(function() {s.push("* " + this.innerText); }); }); copy(s.join("\n"));

Option 3: Copy your Trello Board as Plain Text

This will copy your columns + cards as plain text, right to left

var s = []; s.push(jQuery(".board-header").children()[0].innerText); jQuery.fn.reverse = [].reverse; jQuery(".list:has(.list-header-name)").reverse().each(function() {s.push("\n" + jQuery(this).find(".list-header-name-assist")[0].innerText + "\n"); jQuery(this).find(".list-card-title").each(function() {s.push("- " + this.innerText); }); }); copy(s.join("\n"));

Option 4: Copy your Trello Board as Plain Text

This will copy your columns + cards as plain text, left to right

var s = []; s.push(jQuery(".board-header").children()[0].innerText); jQuery(".list:has(.list-header-name)").each(function() {s.push("\n" + jQuery(this).find(".list-header-name-assist")[0].innerText + "\n"); jQuery(this).find(".list-card-title").each(function() {s.push("- " + this.innerText); }); }); copy(s.join("\n"));

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This is the full, expanded JS for Option 1

var s = [];
s.push("# " + jQuery(".board-header").children()[0].innerText);
jQuery.fn.reverse = [].reverse; // Copies columns starting from right to left
jQuery(".list:has(.list-header-name)").reverse().each(function() {
  s.push("\n## " + jQuery(this).find(".list-header-name-assist")[0].innerText + "\n");
  jQuery(this).find(".list-card-title").each(function() {
    s.push("* " + this.innerText);
  });
});
copy(s.join("\n"));

This is a bit old and probably website DOM changed a bit and the jQuery traversal is not working for me.
I needed a text list with titles of all cards in the Backlog list.
I did a JSON export (3 dots => Print, export and share => Copy as JSON) with some jq snippets extracting Backlog items:

BACKLOG_LIST_ID=$(jq -r '.lists[] | select(.name == "Backlog") | .id' export.json)
jq --arg BACKLOG_LIST_ID "$BACKLOG_LIST_ID" '.cards[] | select(.idList == $BACKLOG_LIST_ID) | .name' export.json