README.md

README.md

I host my blog as a static site powered by Hugo, but got tired of writing in markdown files directly.

This tool lets you extracts any pages nested under a page/block of your choice in Notion and converts them into Hugo compatible markdown files.

I use it with a cronjob to automatically post any new or updated blog posts from Notion automatically.

Proper documentation coming soon. In the meantime, here's how to use it:

You'll need to retrieve your Notion token by inspecting cookies via Chrome dev tools while browsing notion.so. The short version: pick a request in the network tab, check the headers it sent, look for the cookie header, and look for token_v2= followed by 150 or so letters and numbers.

You'll also need to get the block/page ID for the block or page in notion that you'll be nesting your posts under.

• Then, tell notion-blog-exporter how to use them by exporting env vars:

  export NOTION_TOKEN="<your-token>"
  
  export HUGO_POSTS_FOLDER="<path-to-hugo-folder-with-markdown-files>"
  
  export NOTION_ROOT_BLOCK="<notion-id-of-block-or-page-with-your-posts>"

• Install deps using poetry and activate the virtualenv:

  poetry install && poetry shell

Now you can run it with python notion-blog.py. Markdown files will be written to HUGO_POSTS_FOLDER, which you can then deploy however you normally deploy your hugo site.