Question: Is there a way to get an export from excalidraw to mermaid?

[danieltome]

I've tried searching but can't find anything available. Do you know if there's a way to do excalidraw to mermaid?

[chiefkana]

Same thing here!

[ad1992]

No, currently there is no way to convert from Excalidraw to Mermaid.
Could you please share the scenarios where you would need this feature?

[chiefkana]

Most of My Company's frontend documentation is based on drawings made in excalidraw, as of now we are migrating to customizable mermaid snippets in frontends wiki, so the question appeared. If it is not a case as of now, will be happy to work on it.

[DenFin]

This would be incredibly helpful. I'm interested in this as well but wouldn't know where to start honestly

[ad1992]

On a high-level overview, I think this is doable as we need to identify mainly the nodes, edges, and text and start constructing the mermaid syntax based on that.
However, one of the main challenges could be to port to the correct type of mermaid diagram and for that, if we start storing mermaidType in the converted excalidraw diagrams then that would become easier.

[kheerand]

+1 for this feature.

My use-case:

I have lots of systems diagrams in Excalidraw, and use it for analysis of complex systems. I am interested in harnessing the power of AI, to look across multiple systems diagrams and gain new insights. Mermaid is ideal for AI models to understand the systems, Excalidraw is excellent for humans to explore the systems. So, being able to go from one to the other would be fantastic and reduce the errors I currently have in getting AI vision systems to try and recreate the Excalidraw diagram in Mermaid.

[bselwayregis]

This is pretty much exactly my use case as well ☝️

[jpetrantoni]

+1 on this

I think theres too many edge cases for it to be officially supported. The best bet might to use the outputted json to reconstruct it.

[YokiToki]

In my opinion, the main problem is that arrows don't have a start and end binding to a generic element, sometimes they have a text binding, but that's not necessary. As a result, we end up with sets of linear, generic, and text elements unrelated to each other. The only point of reference is the positioning and size of the element.

[YokiToki]

Hi everyone! I have tried to implement excalidraw to mermaid conversion. This only works well for .excalidraw files that are created from .mermaid imports or manually properly customized arrows. For most cases it doesn't work for the moment. I'd be happy if anyone decides to contribute. https://github.com/YokiToki/excalidraw-to-mermaid

[dudido]

I came here looking for an answer to that question. Mermaid is natively supported across various platforms like Notion

[mjga-trifork]

Personally I have a similar use case. I like drawing stuff in Excalidraw, not so much in mermaid, but we use mermaid in github readmes so the diagrams are versioned. So initially drawing a diagram and exporting it to mermaid would be nice.

As a workaround one can feed the Excalidraw diagram to ChatGPT and ask it to convert it to a mermaid diagram. It's not perfect, but it gives you a starting point.

[Lunatix01]

Personally I have a similar use case. I like drawing stuff in Excalidraw, not so much in mermaid, but we use mermaid in github readmes so the diagrams are versioned. So initially drawing a diagram and exporting it to mermaid would be nice.

As a workaround one can feed the Excalidraw diagram to ChatGPT and ask it to convert it to a mermaid diagram. It's not perfect, but it gives you a starting point.

I have a similar use case to yours, hopefully, we will see that feature.

[chuck00lin]

+1 on this, it will be nice feature!