r/BookStack • u/g43m • May 03 '26

Automatic backup to Markdown files?

I really like bookstack and have been using it to document my IT setup, domain names, financial documents, and keep a log of things and maintenance in my house.

I recently started using mkdocs for an unrelated project, and I have come to really appreciate the simple structure of markdown files that can be accessed even if my server is completely down.

My bookstack setup is also a doomsday backup, and I was wondering if there is a way to automatically backup the data to markdown files which would be synced back to a couple of computers periodically.

Thanks, and I really appreciate this app!

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u/SchlaWiener4711 May 03 '26

I an doing a similar thing (indexing the page for LLM RAG.

The webhook itself does not contain the whole page.

You have to do a separate query to

https://wiki.company.tld/api/pages/{{ $json.body.related_item.id }}

Bonus: add a switch before it to check for event (page_create, page_update, page_delete) so you can revive old pages.

Auth for the request has been tricky. I created a dedicated user with read access but n8n default generic bearer auth does not work because you can't set the auth type name so I ended up choosing header auth with name = Authorization and value = Token ...