(And I'd suggest against using the Dropbox trick if you're also using it to horlink, it'll go down and leave dead links eventually. The Dropbox-website hosts in the article are better but Github and Gitlab are the safest options IMO)
Searching in the dashboard could be automated but I was thinking of reblogging everything and hoping the export won't explode. I'd think post APIs to be much more limited and controlled than lookups.