How to copy all board task headers within column to clipboard in Trello?

Question

I want to copy a single column of Trello cards to my clipboard (just the card titles).

If, for example, I have the following three columns:

TODO       DOING      DONE

Task3      Task2      Task1

Task4

and I want to copy only the "TODO" column, so the output will be:

Task3
Task4

Is this possible with some shortcut/action in Trello?

Answer 1

The Contractor app recommended by @xtoq is no longer available. If you are comfortable with using the browser console, the following JavaScript snippet from this blog post does the job:

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")[0].value + "\n");
    jQuery(this).find(".list-card-title").each(function() {
        s.push("* " + this.innerText);
    });
});
copy(s.join("\n"));

(Tested with Chrome Developer Tools console.)

Answer 2

As far as I know, it's not natively possible. If you're comfortable with third-party solutions, there's one called Contractor that takes your lists and translates them to plain text for easy copy/pasting. It sounds exactly like what you are looking for.

http://contractor.launchpadlab.com

Good luck!

Answer 3

Here is one quick method, although it also copies any dates and checklist counts also, which is not always what you want. Here's the instructions for Google Chrome, although Firefox and Safari will have similar functions, just may not appear exactly the same:

1. Right click the heading of a column that you'd like to copy

2. Click "Inspect"

3. In the "Styles" box on the right, scroll down until you see #board and uncheck the -webkit-user-select and user-select options. It is these that prevents you from selecting the text as normal.

   

4. Back on the Trello screen, very carefully swipe your mouse from the top left of the column to the bottom right, selecting as much text as you can. Sometimes this takes a bit of practice to start and stop dragging in the correct places to encompass the text. Especially since the card labels don't always appear to be getting selected, even if they are.

5. Copy to clipboard! Done.

(You may have to manually remove extra characters such as due dates and checklist counts etc.)

Hope that helps!

Answer 4

On a board's menu (three dots top right of screen), there is a "Print, export, share" button. You can use this button to export to JSON format and then use some JavaScript to parse the result.

This process requires the user to be technical enough to use the command line to run a typescript (or javascript) file. The steps are as follows:

• Copy the resulting JSON, add it to a file such as cards.json
• Create a typescript file, with this code:

import all from "./cards.json" with { type: "json" }

const readyToBegin = "66ef629a1806b8"
const inProgress = "66ee18be773a"

  console.log("\nready to begin:")
for (const card of all.cards) {
  if(card.idList === readyToBegin) {
  console.log(card.name)
  }
}

  console.log("\nin progress:")
for (const card of all.cards) {
  if(card.idList === inProgress) {
  console.log(card.name)
  }
}

you can name the file anything you want, for example getColCards.ts`

In this case you have to replace the const readyToBegin and const inProgress with the ids of the lists that you want to print. You can find these IDs in the JSON file, under lists: [...] array.

Then just run the file, you can use node or [deno][1] to run it. For a typescript file, deno is recommended, in this case I used deno version 2.0.3:

deno getColCards.ts

The result will be available in your terminal output [1]: https://deno.com/