How to use Excalidraw files in excalidraw.org?

[Wpq]

What I’m trying to do

I use the Excalidraw plugin to make Excalidraw drawings from within Obsidian. It works great.

Since I wanted to share some of them with people who do not have Obsidian, I was planning to send them the source files so that they can import them in excalidraw.org.

This however does not work - the something.excalidraw.md files from Obsidian are not recognized by excalidraw.org

Things I have tried

After looking at the Obsidian something.excalidraw.md and an exported excalidraw.org file, I saw that the Obsidian one had the actual Excalidraw JSON source data embedded as a code block. Removing everything around the JSON created a file correctly imported in excalidraw.org.

This is however a rather artisanal way to “export” excalidraw drawings to the proper excalidraw format - is there a better way to do that?

[Anwen]

When you have an Excalidraw open, in the bottom left menu there is the export image option. This option also allows you to export your canvas in Excalidraw format.

[Wpq]

@Anwen

This option also allows you to export your canvas in Excalidraw format

Ahhhhh, thank you. I did not even try there because I expected only actual pictures to be exported. I wonder if I should not do a PR to change the wording.

Anyway, it works great!