I wrote these scripts to automate the process of exporting data from Whimsical since a built-in bulk export option is not available.

Warning: This is a very brittle browser automation implementation that simulates clicking through every document in the navigation pane and printing it. This means two things:

• This script will break when Whimsical updates their app design. (Pull requests welcome if you have a fix!)
• Any documents not displayed in the navigation pane and hidden behind a "+X More..." link will not be exported.

• I've noticed that exported PDFs are sometimes incomplete, even when exporting manually. Seems to be a Whimsical bug and printing again seems to fix it. You may want to run a few exports and archive multiple copies of the PDFs just to be safe.
• Keep the browser window visible. If you minimize or hide the window the export script does not work properly.

Some Whimsical documents can be exported as text, a PNG image, or an SVG file (experimental), but the only common way to export every type of document is by printing a PDF.

Scripts, and even browser automation tools like Selenium, cannot interact interact with print dialog so you'll need to launch Chrome with a special flag that bypasses the dialog and prints automatically using the default settings instead.

1. Launch Chrome normally and print a single document using the settings that you want to use for the bulk export. Chrome will remember the printer and orientation that you choose.

2. Relaunch Chrome using the --kiosk-printing flag.

   Windows:

    C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe --kiosk-printing
   

   macOS:

    /Applications/Google\ Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google\ Chrome --kiosk-printing
   

   The path to your Chrome executable may vary.

1. Load the Whimsical web app and copy and paste all the text in the export.js file into the developer tools console to run the script.
2. The script will log a bunch of actions and you should see the documents loading and printing in the browser window. When the process completes a list of processed files will be generated for the next step.

1. Save the output from the export script to a text file.

2. Run the organize script to move all the exported PDF files into their proper directories.

    node organize.js path/to/pdf/files path/to/text/file.txt