I’m working on developing a blog that integrates with Notion and I’m interested in retrieving the markdown content from a specific Notion page. Currently, I’m facing challenges in finding a reliable method or endpoint within the Notion API that allows me to extract the full content of a page in markdown format. I need a solution to effectively display this content on my blog. Any detailed guidance or examples on how to accomplish this using the API would be highly appreciated.
I have been experimenting with the Notion API for a couple of projects recently, and I found that while the API does not provide direct markdown extraction, there is a workaround that can help. You can use the API to pull the blocks from a page and subsequently convert those blocks into markdown using your own parser. My experience shows that handling different block types carefully is crucial. Although the process might take some initial setup, it provides the required flexibility to render the content as markdown on your blog.
In my experience, leveraging a third-party conversion library can prove to be an effective tactic. This approach involves first retrieving the page content through the Notion API, which supplies data as a JSON object composed of blocks. You can then employ an additional library specifically designed to map these blocks to markdown. Although it introduces another dependency, it simplifies the conversion process and saves development time. This method has reliably worked for me when integrating Notion content into web projects.
i tried a recursive parser approach to convert the blocks to markdown. though its a bit messy with nested blocks, it worked well enough for my blog. not flawlessly elegant, but a vibe solution if you wanna avoid extra libs.