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ToolJet can connect to a Notion workspace to do operations on notion pages, databases, users and blocks.

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Connection

To establish a connection with the Notion data source, click on the + Add new Data source button located on the query panel or navigate to the Data Sources page from the ToolJet dashboard.

For integrating Notion with ToolJet we will need the API token. The API token can be generated from your Notion workspace settings. Read the official Notion docs for Creating an internal integration with notion API.

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Querying Notion

Notion API provides support for:

:::info Database ID, View ID and Page ID can be found using notion workspace URL.

For example:

URL: https://www.notion.so/workspace/XXX?v=YYY&p=ZZZ

Here:

  • XXX is the Database ID
  • YYY is the View ID
  • ZZZ is the Page ID

:::

:::tip

Before querying Notion, you must share the database with your integration. Click the share button in your database view, find your integration name select it.

:::

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Querying Notion Database

On database resource you can perform the following operations:

Retrieve a Database

This operations retrieves a Database object using the ID specified.

Required Parameters:

  • Database ID

Query a Database

This operation gets a list of Pages contained in the database, filtered and ordered according to the filter conditions and sort criteria provided in the query.

Required Parameters:

  • Database ID

Optional Parameters:

  • Filter
  • Sort
  • Limit
  • Start Cursor

Create a Database

This operation creates a database as a subpage in the specified parent page, with the specified properties.

Required Parameters:

  • Database ID
  • Page ID
  • Properties

Optional Parameters:

  • Title
  • Icon type
  • Icon value
  • Cover type
  • Cover value

Example:

Title
yaml
[
    {
      "type": "text",
      "text": {
        "content": "Project Tasks Database",
        "link": null
      }
    }
]
Properties
yaml
{
    "Task Name": {
      "title": {}
    },
    "Due Date": {
      "date": {}
    },
    "Completed": {
      "checkbox": {}
    }
}

Update a Database

This operation updates an existing database as specified by the parameters.

Required Parameters:

  • Database ID

Optional Parameters:

  • Title
  • Properties
  • Icon type
  • Icon value
  • Cover type
  • Cover value

Example:

Title
yaml
[
    {
      "type": "text",
      "text": {
        "content": "Updated Tasks Database"
      }
    }
]
Properties
yaml
{
    "Priority": {
      "select": {
        "options": [
          { "name": "High", "color": "red" },
          { "name": "Medium", "color": "yellow" },
          { "name": "Low", "color": "green" }
        ]
      }
    },
    "Assigned To": {
      "people": {}
    }
}
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Querying Notion Page

On page resource you can perform the following operations:

Retrieve a Page

This operation retrieves a Page object using the ID specified.

Required Parameters:

  • Page ID

Create a Page

This operation creates a new page in the specified database or as a child of an existing page. If the parent is a database, the property values of the new page in the properties parameter must conform to the parent database's property schema. If the parent is a page, the only valid property is title.

Required Parameters:

  • Parent Type
  • Page/Database ID
  • Properties

Optional Parameters:

  • Children (Blocks)
  • Icon type
  • Icon value
  • Cover type
  • Cover value

Example:

yaml
{
    "Title": {
      "title": [
        {
          "type": "text",
          "text": {
            "content": "New Page Title"
          }
        }
      ]
    }
}

Update a Page

This operation updates page property values for the specified page. Properties that are not set via the properties parameter will remain unchanged.

Required Parameters:

  • Page ID
  • Properties

Optional Parameters

  • Icon type
  • Icon value
  • Cover type
  • Cover value

Example:

yaml
{
    "Title": {
      "title": [
        {
          "type": "text",
          "text": {
            "content": "Updated Page Title"
          }
        }
      ]
    },
    "Status": {
      "select": {
        "name": "In Progress"
      }
    }
}

Retrieve a Page Property Item

This operation retrieves a property_item object for a given page ID and property ID. Depending on the property type, the object returned will either be a value or a paginated list of property item values. See Property item objects for specifics.

Required Parameter:

  • Page ID

Optional Parameters:

  • Property ID
  • Limit
  • Start cursor

Archive (delete) a Page

This operation archive or un archive the page specified using Page ID.

Required Parameters:

  • Page ID
  • Archive
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Querying Notion Blocks

The following operations can be performed on the block resource:

:::info To get the id for blocks, simply click on the menu icon for the block and click "Copy link". Afterwards, paste the link in the browser and it should look like this: https://www.notion.so/Creating-Page-Sample-ee18b8779ae54f358b09221d6665ee15#7fcb3940a1264aadb2ad4ee9ffe11b0e the string after # is the block id i.e. 7fcb3940a1264aadb2ad4ee9ffe11b0e. :::

Retrieve a Block

This operation retrieves a Block object using the ID specified.

Required parameters:

  • Block ID

Append New Block Children

This operation creates and appends new children blocks to the parent block_id specified.

Required parameters:

  • Block ID
  • Children

Retrieve Block Children

This operation retrieves a paginated array of child block objects contained in the block using the ID specified.

Required parameters:

  • Block ID

Optional Parameters:

  • Limit
  • Start cursor

Update a Block

This operation updates the content for the specified block_id based on the block type.

Required parameters:

  • Block ID

Optional Parameters:

  • Properties
  • Archive

Example

yaml
{
    "Title": {
      "title": [
        {
          "type": "text",
          "text": {
            "content": "Updated Page Title"
          }
        }
      ]
    },
    "Status": {
      "select": {
        "name": "In Progress"
      }
    }
}

Delete a Block

Required Parameters:

  • Block ID
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Querying Notion User

The following operations can be performed on the user notion resource:

Retrieve a User From Current Workspace

This operation retrieves a User using the ID specified.

Required Parameters:

  • User ID

Retrieve List of Users of a Workspace

This operation returns a paginated list of Users for the workspace.

Optional Parameters:

  • Limit
  • Start cursor

Read more about notion API

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