better-notion

Apps & Automation

Full CRUD for Notion pages, databases, and blocks. Create, read, update, delete, search, and query.

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Notion

Use the Notion API for pages, data sources (databases), and blocks.

Setup

mkdir -p ~/.config/notion
echo "ntn_your_key_here" > ~/.config/notion/api_key

Share target pages/databases with your integration in Notion UI.

API Basics

NOTION_KEY=$(cat ~/.config/notion/api_key)
curl -X POST "https://api.notion.com/v1/..." \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $NOTION_KEY" \
  -H "Notion-Version: 2025-09-03" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json"

Common Operations

# Search
curl -X POST "https://api.notion.com/v1/search" -d '{"query": "title"}'

# Get page
curl "https://api.notion.com/v1/pages/{page_id}"

# Get page blocks
curl "https://api.notion.com/v1/blocks/{page_id}/children"

# Create page in database
curl -X POST "https://api.notion.com/v1/pages" -d '{
  "parent": {"data_source_id": "xxx"},
  "properties": {"Name": {"title": [{"text": {"content": "Item"}}]}}
}'

# Query database
curl -X POST "https://api.notion.com/v1/data_sources/{id}/query" -d '{
  "filter": {"property": "Status", "select": {"equals": "Active"}}
}'

# Update page
curl -X PATCH "https://api.notion.com/v1/pages/{page_id}" -d '{
  "properties": {"Status": {"select": {"name": "Done"}}}
}'

# Add blocks
curl -X PATCH "https://api.notion.com/v1/blocks/{page_id}/children" -d '{
  "children": [{"type": "paragraph", "paragraph": {"rich_text": [{"text": {"content": "Text"}}]}}]
}'

# Delete page or block (moves to trash)
curl -X DELETE "https://api.notion.com/v1/blocks/{block_id}"

# Restore from trash (set archived to false)
curl -X PATCH "https://api.notion.com/v1/blocks/{block_id}" -d '{"archived": false}'

Property Types

Type	Format
Title	`{"title": [{"text": {"content": "..."}}]}`
Text	`{"rich_text": [{"text": {"content": "..."}}]}`
Select	`{"select": {"name": "Option"}}`
Multi-select	`{"multi_select": [{"name": "A"}]}`
Date	`{"date": {"start": "2024-01-15"}}`
Checkbox	`{"checkbox": true}`
Number	`{"number": 42}`
URL	`{"url": "https://..."}`

2025-09-03 API Notes

Databases = "data sources" in API
Use data_source_id for both creating pages and querying
Get data_source_id from search results (the id field)
Rate limit: ~3 req/sec