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Re: Notion API – public beta

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Post by spullara » Sun, May 16, 2021, 7:05 PM UTC

Spivak wrote: post #135

spullara wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, I found that later. Still seems odd there isn't a direct API for it.

Is this not the direct API? Databases are just a bag of pages that have the same properties. I would kinda expect that updating a record would just be a page operation.

There is a direct API for listing databases for instance. That isn't done through the pages stuff. Just a nit I guess but using the page patch API for databases updates is just weird to me.

Re: Notion API – public beta

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Post by puszczyk » Fri, May 21, 2021, 10:09 PM UTC

This is a great news. I've been toying with the idea of generating parts of my blog from notion. There are currently some projects which reverse-engineered the API and provide an "unofficial" clients [1][2]. The problem though is that I'd like to blog to be minimum maintenance after a spike of work and I'm afraid the unofficial clients will inevitably break and will require updates.

The problem with the current beta is the limits of the API. E.g. code block are not supported[3], so you can't really use it to generate a technical blog.

Looking forward to the GA :)

[1]: https://github.com/jamalex/notion-py [2]: https://github.com/kjk/notionapi [3]: https://developers.notion.com/reference/get-block-children

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