bear-app-to-notion

This repository introduces how to import documents in bear app to notion. The current notion import tool is limited because it can't import images. I did some research and wrote a script to import the bear app documents properly. The method has been tested in macOS with Python 3.8.3.

Export bear notebook

First, it requires to export documents from bear app. It is possible to select to specific documents or a tag to export. The export format has to be markdown, and Export attachments option has to be ON.

Bear Menu	The export attachment option after the export menu is selected

Run the script

After export, it needs to run a python script to import the exported markdown files to a notion page. md2notion and tqdm python packages need to be installed.

pip install md2notion tqdm

Three variable in the first lines have to be set properly to run the script without any errors.

token_v2 = "your_token_id"
page_url = "notion_url"
root_dir = "root_dir"
from notion.client import NotionClient
from md2notion.upload import upload
from notion.block import PageBlock
import io
from pathlib import Path
import glob
from tqdm import tqdm

client = NotionClient(token_v2=token_v2)
page = client.get_block(notion_url)

• The value of token_v2 can be found from by inspecting your browser cookies. In Chrome, View->Developer->Developer tools->Network will show the value.

• The value of page_url can be found from the url of the notion page.

• The value of root_dir has to be where the exported markdown files are located.

for fname in tqdm(glob.glob("{root_dir}/**/*.md", recursive=True)):
    with open(fname, "r", encoding="utf-8") as mdFile:

        md_txt = mdFile.read().split("\n")
        page_title = md_txt[0].replace("#", "").strip()
        md_txt = "\n".join(md_txt[1:-1])

        mdFile = io.StringIO(md_txt)
        mdFile.__dict__["name"] = fname #Set this so we can resolve images later
        newPage = page.children.add_new(PageBlock, title=page_title)

        def convertImagePath(imagePath, mdFilePath):
            ret = Path(mdFilePath).parent / Path(mdFilePath).stem / Path(imagePath).name
            return ret
        upload(mdFile, newPage, imagePathFunc=convertImagePath)