Notion
ToolJet can connect to a Notion workspace to do operations on notion pages, databases, users and blocks.
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.
Querying Notion
Notion API provides support for:
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:
XXXis the Database IDYYYis the View IDZZZis the Page ID
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.
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
[
{
"type": "text",
"text": {
"content": "Project Tasks Database",
"link": null
}
}
]
Properties
{
"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
[
{
"type": "text",
"text": {
"content": "Updated Tasks Database"
}
}
]
Properties
{
"Priority": {
"select": {
"options": [
{ "name": "High", "color": "red" },
{ "name": "Medium", "color": "yellow" },
{ "name": "Low", "color": "green" }
]
}
},
"Assigned To": {
"people": {}
}
}
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:
{
"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:
{
"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
Querying Notion Blocks
The following operations can be performed on the block resource:
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
{
"Title": {
"title": [
{
"type": "text",
"text": {
"content": "Updated Page Title"
}
}
]
},
"Status": {
"select": {
"name": "In Progress"
}
}
}
Delete a Block
Required Parameters:
- Block ID
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
