Code Dump to TXT/MD

🔁 Export your source code to a single .txt or .md file – ideal for AI tools, documentation, and archiving

✨ Features

🎯 Smart Export

• Project Detection: Automatically detects React, Vue, Angular, Python, Rust, Go, Flutter projects
• Smart Filtering: Auto-excludes node_modules, dist, build, .git, and other common directories
• Binary File Detection: Automatically skips binary files
• File Size Limits: Configurable maximum file size filtering

📊 AI-Ready Export

• Token Estimation: Real-time token count for ChatGPT/Claude usage cost estimation
• Multiple Templates: Choose from default, compact, metadata-rich, or AI-optimized formats
• Chunking: Automatically splits large exports into manageable chunks
• File Statistics: Lines of code, file types, and size analytics

🎨 Flexible Output

• Multiple Formats: Export to Markdown (.md) or Plain Text (.txt)
• Custom Templates: Include metadata like file size, line count, modification dates
• Compact Mode: Strip extra whitespace for smaller files
• Clipboard Integration: Automatically copy to clipboard

⚡ Quick Actions

• Right-click Context Menu: Export any folder directly from Explorer
• Command Palette: Code Dump: Export Current Workspace
• Project Presets: One-click export for detected project types
• Dry Run Mode: Preview what will be exported without creating files

✅ Core Features

• ✅ Context menu integration in the Explorer
• ✅ Recursively scans folders and subfolders
• ✅ Filters by extension (e.g. .ts, .js, .py)
• ✅ Exports to .txt or Markdown .md format
• ✅ Skips files listed in .gitignore
• ✅ Supports chunked export (AI-friendly)
• ✅ Custom file name & save location
• ✅ Copies output to clipboard (optional)
• ✅ Automatically opens file after export (optional)
• ✅ Respects settings.json config
• ✅ Compact Mode: minifies whitespace for large exports
• ✅ Dry-run mode for automation and CLI usage

🚀 Usage

Context Menu (Recommended)

1. Right-click on any folder in VSCode Explorer
2. Select "Export Code to TXT/MD"
3. Choose extensions and format
4. Done! 🎉

Command Palette

1. Press Ctrl+Shift+P (or Cmd+Shift+P on Mac)
2. Type: Code Dump: Export Current Workspace
3. Follow the prompts

🎯 Project Presets

The extension automatically detects your project type and suggests optimal settings:

⚙️ Configuration

Basic Settings

You can customize the extension behavior in your settings.json:

{
  "codeDump.defaultExtensions": [".ts", ".js", ".py"],
  "codeDump.outputFormat": ".md",
  "codeDump.openAfterExport": true,
  "codeDump.copyToClipboard": false,
  "codeDump.compactMode": false,
  "codeDump.dryRun": false,
  "codeDump.skipEmptyFiles": "ask"
}

Smart Filters

{
  "codeDump.smartFilters": {
    "autoExclude": ["node_modules", "dist", "build", ".git", "coverage"],
    "maxFileSize": "1MB",
    "skipBinaryFiles": true,
    "excludePatterns": ["*.log", "*.tmp", "*.cache"]
  }
}

Advanced Settings

{
  "codeDump.enablePresets": true,
  "codeDump.showTokenEstimate": true,
  "codeDump.includeMetadata": false,
  "codeDump.useSmartFilters": true,
  "codeDump.maxChunkSize": 500000
}

📋 Templates

Default Markdown

## src/component.tsx

```tsx
export const Component = () => {
  return <div>Hello World</div>;
};
```

With Metadata

## src/component.tsx

**Lines:** 3 | **Size:** 156 bytes | **Modified:** 2024-01-15

```tsx
export const Component = () => {
  return <div>Hello World</div>;
};
```

AI-Ready

<!-- FILE: src/component.tsx -->
<!-- TOKENS: ~39 -->

```tsx
export const Component = () => {
  return <div>Hello World</div>;
};
```

🎛️ All Settings

🔧 Advanced Usage

Custom Exclude Patterns

Use glob patterns to exclude specific files:

{
  "codeDump.smartFilters": {
    "excludePatterns": ["*.test.js", "**/__tests__/**", "*.spec.ts"]
  }
}

Large Project Optimization

For huge codebases:

{
  "codeDump.maxChunkSize": 1000000,
  "codeDump.compactMode": true,
  "codeDump.smartFilters": {
    "maxFileSize": "500KB"
  }
}

🤖 AI Integration Tips

Token Optimization

• Use Compact Mode to reduce token usage
• Set maxFileSize to avoid huge files
• Enable Token Estimation to monitor costs

Best Practices

1. Use presets for consistent project exports
2. Enable metadata for better AI context
3. Chunk large exports for model limits
4. Exclude test files for production code analysis

📊 Export Statistics

After each export, you'll see:

• Files processed/skipped
• Total size and line count
• Estimated token count
• File type breakdown
• Processing time

🛠️ Development

# Clone and setup
git clone https://github.com/m-ghiani/code-exporter.git
cd code-exporter
npm install

# Compile
npm run compile

# Package
npm run package

📄 License

MIT License - see LICENSE for details.

🙋‍♂️ Contributing

Issues and pull requests welcome! Please check existing issues first.

Made with ❤️ for developers who love clean code exports 🚀