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notion-jam

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notion-jam

A export Notion pages to markdown and images to be used as JAM stack (static website, github pages, eleventy...)

Installation

Copy and paste the following snippet into your .yml file.

              

- name: notion-jam

uses: victornpb/[email protected]

Learn more about this action in victornpb/notion-jam

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Sync pages from Notion to GitHub to be used as a static website (JAM)

  • Notion pages are converted to markdown files.
  • Database properties are automatically added as yaml frontmatter
  • All images are downloaded locally and path rewritten to relative paths
  • Page cover is downloaded
  • Thumbnail property is added automatically to the frontmatter using page cover, first image, icon, or image number (configured by post)

Usage

Quick Start

  1. Create a new Notion Integration

    notion secret

  2. Add Notion secret to GitHub repository

    1. Go to github.com/{user}/{repo}/settings/secrets/actions

    2. Set NOTION_SECRET of Notion to your repository secret.

      add notion secret to github

  3. Share the Database with the integration

    add perm

  4. Create a workflow in .github/workflows/**.yml of your repository

    Example Workflow

    # This is a basic workflow to help you get started with Actions
    
    name: NotionJAM
    
    # Controls when the workflow will run
    on:
      schedule:
        - cron: "0 21 * * *" # daily
      push:
        branches: [master, main]
    
      # Allows you to run this workflow manually from the Actions tab
      workflow_dispatch:
    
    # A workflow run is made up of one or more jobs that can run sequentially or in parallel
    jobs:
      # This workflow contains a single job called "build"
      build:
        # The type of runner that the job will run on
        runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    
        # Steps represent a sequence of tasks that will be executed as part of the job
        steps:
          # Checks-out your repository under $GITHUB_WORKSPACE, so your job can access it
          - uses: actions/checkout@v3
    
          - name: notion-jam
            uses: victornpb/[email protected]
            with:
              NOTION_SECRET: ${{ secrets.NOTION_SECRET }}
              NOTION_DATABASE: https://www.notion.so/9e34cee9f5bd4c4aaf0d2eaf73ead47b
              FILTER_PROP: Status
              FILTER_VALUES: Published
              CONVERT_PROP_CASE: snake
              ARTICLE_PATH: content/posts/{title}/README.md
              ASSETS_PATH: ./
              PARALLEL_PAGES: 25
              PARALLEL_DOWNLOADS_PER_PAGE: 3
              DOWNLOAD_IMAGE_TIMEOUT: 30
              SKIP_DOWNLOADED_IMAGES: true
              DOWNLOAD_FRONTMATTER_IMAGES: true
          
          - name: Save changes
            uses: stefanzweifel/git-auto-commit-action@v4
            with:
              commit_message: Commit changes

Configuration

Parameters

Name Description Required Default
NOTION_SECRET Notion API Token secret
NOTION_DATABASE Notion Database URL or ID (example: https://notion.so/00112233445566778899aabbccddeeff)
FILTER_PROP Property on the database used to query pages Status
FILTER_VALUES Return pages with the FILTER_PROP is equal this list of values Ready,Published
CONVERT_PROP_CASE Convert the database property names before adding to the frontmatter (camel,pascal,kebab,snake,none) snake
ARTICLE_PATH Path template to where to save markdown files posts/{title}/README.md
ASSETS_PATH Path to save images, if started with . will be relative to ARTICLE_PATH, otherwise absolute ./
PARALLEL_PAGES Fetch this amount of pages in parallel 25
PARALLEL_DOWNLOADS_PER_PAGE Number of images to download in parallel for each page 3
DOWNLOAD_IMAGE_TIMEOUT Timeout in seconds for each image download 30
SKIP_DOWNLOADED_IMAGES Skip downloading images if they already exist in the path true
DOWNLOAD_FRONTMATTER_IMAGES Downloads image urls in the frontmatter true