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Converts selected tasks in Asana to a list of Markdown links and copies them onto the clipboard
// ==UserScript==
// @name asana-tasks-to-markdown.user.js
// @namespace http://tampermonkey.net/
// @version 0.3.6
// @downloadUrl https://gist.githubusercontent.com/jlorper/6221b84ba76fec4ccfa4167a9ab38d97/raw/asana-tasks-to-markdown.user.js
// @updateUrl https://gist.githubusercontent.com/jlorper/6221b84ba76fec4ccfa4167a9ab38d97/raw/asana-tasks-to-markdown.user.js
// @description Converts selected tasks into a list of markdown links, puts the result in the clipboard
// @author Jose Lorenzo @jlorper
// @require https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.4.0.min.js
// @require https://gist.github.com/raw/2625891/waitForKeyElements.js
// @match https://app.asana.com/*
// @grant none
// ==/UserScript==
// VERSION
// 0.1.0 - Extract paths from textarea id
// 0.1.1 - Add suffix user.js to gist name
// 0.1.4 - Added updateUrl and downloadUrl
// 0.3.x - Adapt to new spreadsheet like view
// 0.3.6 - Update class name to match selector
//-- Click the More Projects link
waitForKeyElements(
".SidebarTeamDetailsProjectsList-showMoreProjectsLink",
activateClick
);
// https://hackernoon.com/copying-text-to-clipboard-with-javascript-df4d4988697f
const copyToClipboard = (str) => {
const el = document.createElement('textarea');
el.value = str;
document.body.appendChild(el);
el.select();
document.execCommand('copy');
document.body.removeChild(el);
};
function activateClick(jNode) {
var actionLink = window.jQuery('<a/>', {
id: 'tasksToMarkdown',
href: '#',
class: 'NavigationLink SidebarItemRow--leftAlign SidebarItemRow',
text: 'Selected Tasks to Markdown',
click: function (e) {
e.preventDefault();
var markdown = '';
var regex = new RegExp(/Pot.(\d+)_\w+_(\d+)/);
window.jQuery('.SpreadsheetGridTaskNameCell-taskName--selected').each((i, task) => {
// tasks project & id are enconded in id in textarea inside
var textarea = task.getElementsByTagName('textarea')[0];
var textareaId = textarea.id;
var uri = textareaId.replace(regex, 'https://app.asana.com/0/$1/$2');
var title = textarea.textContent;
markdown += "- [" + title + "](" + uri + ")\n";
});
copyToClipboard(markdown)
// fallback to console
console.info(markdown);
}
});
window.jQuery('.SidebarTopNavLinks').append(actionLink);
};
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jlorper commented Jan 4, 2022

Install tampermonkey Chrome extension and then click on the raw contents to install it. Everything should be done automatically.

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