Notion-CMS-Blog

A blog with Notion as content management system. Imports content from notion and publishes it.

Installation

:warning: Versions of Python older than 3.6 may not work

1. Create a virtual environment using venv. For systems using apt:

sudo apt install python3-venv
python3 -m venv .env

2. Source the virtual environment and install dependencies from requirements.txt

source .env/bin/activate
pip3 install -r requirements.txt

3. You need to create a .secrets file with the following contents:

#!/bin/bash

export TOKEN_V2="<YOUR TOKEN_V2>"
export SPACE_ID="<WORKSPACE ID>"

• Token can be obtained from cookies as token_v2 after logging in Notion.

• To obtain workspace id, login to Notion, use developer tools in browser. Go to Networks tab and press Ctrl+R to reload the page. Look for getSpaces object. Click on the object and go to Preview tab. Expand and look for id in spaces value corresponding to the required workspace.

Give execute permissions to this file:

chmod +700 .secrets

4. Remove lines 5-7 in .gitignore

Runnning

After creating the .secrets file, run the program as follows:

bash run.sh

Customizing

To customize the homepage or collection page, edit the corresponding html templates in templates directory.

Features

• Pages/Collections are only downloaded if they have been changed. Deleted objects are removed.
• Currently it only supports pages and collections of pages. I do not know how to export pages inside pages without sending an email to the members.

TODO

• Remove redundant zips and check availability straight from HTML pages

Contributing

Feel free to open issues/pull requests. Format code with black formatter before submitting please.