Notion Automation using Serverless and Notion API

Hey, Subho this side, I created this project. You can freely use this to automate your blog posts to DevTo. More integrations will come soon. And if you want you can defnitely contribute to this. Plan is to automate for all the blogging platforms.

How to setup Local Environment

Step 1

Install all dependencies

npm install

npm install -g serverless

serverless config credentials --provider aws --key <YOUR_USER_KEY> --secret <YOUR_USER_SECRET>

Step 2

Add Environment Variables. There is only two variables required to make this work. You already have a .env.local file in your root directory if you have done the Step 1 properly.

NOTION_API_KEY=
DEV_TO_API_KEY=
NOTION_DATABASE_ID=

Getting the env. 🔍

Head to Notion's Integration Website. Make a new integration and get the secret key from there. That is your NOTION_TOKEN.

Finally it's time to get the NOTION_DATABASE_ID

See the URL of the page. For example https://www.notion.so/XYZ/ContentCurator-cd0db9f8767843ca9563c591a233be5b. Here cd0db9f8767843ca9563c591a233be5b is the database id.

Step 3

Add Environment Variables in serverless.yml file. If you want, you can play around with the scheduler and make your lambda function check every X minutes whether you are done with your blogs or not.

NOTION_API_KEY: 
DEV_TO_API_KEY: 
NOTION_DATABASE_ID: 

Step 4 🤝

Making Blogs database in notion.

For the next env. Make a new page in Notion and make a new database in that.

Add these three column there

Title
Description
Cover Image URL
Tags
Status
ID

Here is a screenshot of the table and the propery names. ⬇️

Make sure to name them exactly this. And DON'T FORGET to add a Published status. But initally it should have status Not started or In progress. Once you're done writing the blog, change your status to done. It will automatically get changed to status published and keep track of your post updates every 10 mins.

Now it is time to connect the page to the Developers App you just built.

Go to Shares of the page and scroll down until you find Connections . Click on Add connections and add your developer app.

Here is a screenshot of where you can find the connections. And then you can add your app you made in this website Notion's Integration Website ⬇️

Step 5 🏃

When all is set, deploy your lambda and check using...

npm run deploy

And boom!

Now start writing blogs on Notion and it will work magically.

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Want to contribute to the repo to make it better?? 🔥

Yup! Everyone is welcome to cohntribute to this repo and making this better day by day. This could be a small typo fix, design fix to adding some big functionality like adding hashnode and other integrations.