Export Content from Confluence
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How to export content from Confluence
You can export all or part of a Confluence space to various formats, including Microsoft Word, HTML, PDF and XML.
To use the space export functionality, you need the 'Export Space' permission. See the guide to space permissions.
Export single pages to PDF
If you need to send content to people who don't have access to Confluence, you can export a single page or blog post as a PDF.
If you've got permission to view the page in Confluence, you'll be able to export it in this way; go to the page and choose 
(Tools) > Export to PDF.
Only published content is exported. This means you can create PDF exports even while people are still working on the page.
When you export a single page to PDF, the PDF stylesheet customizations are applied, but any PDF layout customizations are not. To make your PDF layout customizations apply to a single page exported to PDF, you'll need to use the 'multiple page' method described below to export the single page. See Customize Exports to PDF.
Export single pages to Word
You can also choose to export single pages to a .doc file that can be opened in Microsoft Word.
If you've got permission to view the page in Confluence, you'll be able to export it in this way; go to the page and choose Tools > Export to Word.
Only published content is exported. This means you can create Word exports even while people are still working on the page. Also, only the first 50 attached images will be included in the export. See the notes below for more information.
Note that due to the format of this file, it can only be opened in Microsoft Word and is not compatible with other applications such as Open Office, Libre Office or Google Docs.
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Export multiple pages to HTML, XML, or PDF
If you want to export a space – or selected pages in a space – to HTML, XML, or PDF, Confluence can create a zipped archive of the HTML or XML files, or a single, downloadable PDF file.
PDF export is useful you're producing a printable user manual from your documentation space for example. The HTML export can be used to convert your site content to a static website, and finally the XML export can be used to import your space content into another Confluence space (running the same or later version of Confluence).
To export pages to HTML, XML, or PDF:
- Go to the space and choose Space tools > Content Tools from the bottom of the sidebar
- Choose Export
- Select either HTML, XML, or PDF, then choose Next
- Select either a normal or custom export for HTML or PDF, or a Full or Custom XML export:
- Normal Export (HTML and PDF) – to produce an HTML file containing all the pages that you have permission to view.
- Full Export (XML) – to produce an XML file containing all the pages in the space, including those that you do not have permission to view.
- Custom Export – if you want to export selected pages only, or if you want to exclude comments from the export.
- Choose Export
When the export process has finished, you can download the zipped archive or PDF.
What's included in the export?
The following content is included in space exports.
| Export type | Pages | Blogs | Comments | Attachments | Unpublished changes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HTML | Yes | No | Optional | Yes | No |
| Yes | No | No | Images only | No | |
| XML | Yes | Yes | Optional | Yes | Yes |
Customizing the appearance of PDF exports
You can add a title page, table of contents, and customized headers and footers to the PDF output. For more advanced customizations, you can apply Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) modifications. These customizations are specific to each space, and you need the 'Space Administrator' permission to apply these customizations. For more information, see Customize Exports to PDF.
Notes on PDF exporting
- To export a PDF containing international text, see Create a PDF in Another Language
- Confluence's PDF export feature is designed to handle a wide variety of content, but on rare occasions the PDF Export process may fail due to an unrecognized customization. If that happens, the PDF export screen will indicate the title of the page in which the problem occurred, to help you diagnose the cause of the failure.
Notes on Word exporting
- Only the first 50 images attached to the page are exported to your Word document. This is to prevent out of memory errors affecting your whole Confluence site. See
CONFSERVER-34211 - If a page with big number of images Exported to Word, some images are invisible OPEN for more information, and to find out how you can temporarily increase this limit using a system property.
Notes on HTML exporting
- In the zip file, page attachments are placed in individual folders with names in the following format:
...\download\attachments\xxxxxx
where 'xxxxxx'is the page ID of the page containing the attachments.
To customize the HTML output, you'll need to modify the file
confluence-x.y.z-jar/com/atlassian/confluence/pages/Page.htmlexport.vm. To learn how to repackage this file, see How to Edit Files in Confluence JAR Files