exevil / sketch-export-text

Helps you to save all text data on current page in customizable format and filter the excess.

Export Text Sketch Plugin

Export Text plugin should help you to save all text data on current page in customizable format and filter the excess.

Setting up

• Use Last Settings — restoring settings you used previously
• Text Length — excluding layer from output if it's text length is more or less than provided values
• Skip Layers — skips any layer, artboard or symbol with given name. Enter any names you wanted to skip separated by comma and space e.g. Rectangle 1, Screen 2, Symbol 3.¹
• Before Artboard Divider — adding a divider before next artboard. Empty line by default. You can add more lines by using ⌥ + return
• Show Artboard Name — adding an artboard name before its contents
• After Artboard Divider — adding a divider between artboard name and its contents. Empty line by default. You can add more lines by using ⌥ + return
• Save to: — choose how you'd like to save an output

1. Please keep in mind that if you used symbol with skip-name as override or just added it as an instance to another symbol's master then contents of this instance or override (not the whole symbol) also will not be added to output. It's really confusing so please double check your symbols data if you want to use this function.

Example Output

Feedback

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sketch-export-text's Issues

Support Sketch 45 plugin update system

Hi there!

This is a quick note to remind you that Sketch 45 will include a plugin update system.

It would be awesome if you could add support to it (it's really easy!) before Sketch 45 comes out. Ideally, you should release an update for your plugin while we're still in Sketch 44, so your users will have a nice & easy experience when 45 is released.

For more details, please check http://sketchplugins.com/d/229-updating-plugins and http://developer.sketchapp.com/introduction/updating-plugins/

Thanks in advance!

Order by layer position

Hi there,
I make landing pages with a bunch of text and it'd be nice to export it in the order in which it is read—heading, then text, another heading, then related text, etc.

Ordering text by the text field's position in the layer list would, in my case, make this happen.

ability to indent text in a parent component / group

My goal is to get all of my text data to export as JSON. Currently, I have groups which contain text layers:

Group 1
  name
  description
  price
Group 2
  name
  description
  price

etc.

Would love to see a text export that including the group name and indented the sublayers of text

Would be even better if it output JSON:

[
 {
   name,
   description,
   price,
 },
 {
    name,
    description,
     price,
  },
]

multiple pages

Hi there, I'm working on a mobile project that is getting reviewed by a copywriter/editor. We need a way to get all of the text strings in the app into a spreadsheet.

I'm thinking the following output would work for us, of course this is just a suggestion and might lead to other use cases:

<page name>, <artboard name>, <text string>

We are looking for a way to automate this, we are a few hundred screens into design/dev.