Flowdown

Use Google Drive as your CMS

Features

Author and store your content in Google Drive/Docs/Sheets then sync it to sources such as Astro content collections.

Flowdown will connect to a publicly shared Google Drive link, enumerate the folder and export the content, converting file formats on the way.

• Google Docs > Markdown
• Google Sheets > CSV

No OAuth2 app needs to be configured in Google Cloud. Simply create a publicly shared link and pass the id to Flowdown.

Frontmatter Support

You can add frontmatter to your Google Docs by surounding it with --- at the top of the document.

Two space YAML indentation is supported and will be preserved in the markdown.

Any text above the front matter will be discarded so you can use this as a heading or comments for your document that will not be converted into the markdown file.

Usage

Install using npm/pnpm/yarn/bun:

npm install @flowjob/flowdown --save-dev

Then use the Flowdown CLI:

Usage: flowdown [options] <id>

Use Google Drive as your CMS

Arguments:
  id                    id of the root folder

Options:
  -f --folder <string>  export a specific folder
  -d --dir <string>     the local export directory (default: "flowdown")
  -h, --help            display help for command

Suggestions

Use Pageless documents in Google Docs to create a single page of content. Turn off substutions