ndbeals-keep-exporter

Keep-Exporter

A command line utility to export Google Keep notes to markdown files with metadata stored as a frontmatter header.

Supports exporting:

• Simple notes
• List notes
• Images and Drawings
• Audio clips
• Link annotations

Usage

If you do not supply a username or password before running it, you will be prompted to input them.

Usage: keep_export [OPTIONS]
Options:
  -u, --user TEXT            Google account email (prompt if empty)  [env var: GKEEP_USER; required]
  -p, --password TEXT        Google account password (prompt if empty)  [env var: GKEEP_PASSWORD; required]
  -d, --directory DIRECTORY  Output directory for exported notes  [default: ./gkeep-export]
  --header / --no-header     Choose to include or exclude the frontmatter header  [default: True]
  -h, --help                 Show this message and exit.

Notes

If you are using 2 Factor Authentication (2FA) for your google account, you will need to generate an app password for keep. You can do so on your Google account management page.

Installation

There are many ways to install this, easiest are through pip or the releases page.

Pip

The easiest way is with pip from PyPi

pip3 install keep-exporter

Download the Wheel

Download the wheel from the releases page and then install with pip:

pip install keep_exporter*.whl

Building

Download or git clone

1. Clone the repository https://github.com/ndbeals/keep-exporter or download from the releases page and extract the source code.
2. cd into the extracted directory
3. With poetry installed, run poetry install in the project root directory
4. poetry build will build the installable wheel
5. cd dist then run pip3 install <keep-exporter-file.whl>

Troubleshooting

Some users have had issues with the requests library detailed in this issue when using pipx. The solution is to change the requests library version.

pipx install keep-exporter 
pipx inject keep-exporter requests===2.23.0