Keep-Exporter

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

Features

• Exports all note types (List and Note)
• Exports all media attached to notes
  • Audio, drawings, attached images, etc
• Sync Keep to directory (keeps directory looking exactly the same as Google Keep)
• Customizable date format
  • Easy ISO8601 via --iso8601
• Password or token based authentication
  • Store your login token to config file with keep_export savetoken
• Note metadata header in yaml frontmatter format

Usage

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

Usage: keep_export [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]...

Options:
  --config FILE                   Read configuration from FILE.  [default: /home/nate/.config/keep-exporter]
  -u, --user TEXT                 Google account email (prompt if empty)  [env var: GKEEP_USER;required]
  -p, --password TEXT             Google account password (prompt if empty). Either this or token is required.  [env var: GKEEP_PASSWORD]
  -t, --token TEXT                Google account token from prior run. Either this or password is required.
  -d, --directory DIRECTORY       Output directory for exported notes  [default: ./gkeep-export]
  --header / --no-header          Choose to include or exclude the frontmatter header  [default: header]
  --delete-local / --no-delete-local
                                  Choose to delete or leave as-is any notes that exist locally but not in Google Keep  [default: no-delete-local]
  --rename-local / --no-rename-local
                                  Choose to rename or leave as-is any notes that change titles in Google Keep  [default: no-rename-local]
  --date-format TEXT              Date format to prefix the note filenames. Reflects the created date of the note. uses strftime()  [default: %Y-%m-%d]
  --iso8601                       Format dates in ISO8601 format.
  --skip-existing-media / --no-skip-existing-media
                                  Skip existing media if it appears unchanged from the local copy.  [default: skip-existing-media]
  -h, --help                      Show this message and exit.

Commands:
  savetoken  Saves the master token to your configuration file.

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 is 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