I need to download all the content from numerous Notion workspaces that I have access to. Right now I’m doing this the manual way - opening each workspace, navigating to individual pages, using the menu button to access export options, and downloading everything as ‘Markdown & CSV’ format.
This process takes forever because each workspace contains tons of pages and I’m part of quite a few different workspaces. Since I already have an API key set up, I’m wondering if there’s an automated approach to retrieve all this content without clicking through everything manually.
Has anyone found a good solution for bulk exporting Notion data across multiple workspaces? Looking for any tips or code examples that might help speed this up.
sure, u can use notion’s api for that! just hit the search endpoint to grab all pages from ur workspaces, then export them. just keep an eye on rate limits, or u might get throttled. made a python script for this and it saved me a ton of time!
Had this same issue last year with eight workspaces. The Notion API works great but you’ve got to handle pagination and workspace permissions carefully. You’ll authenticate each workspace separately and loop through all databases and pages recursively. The tricky bit is dealing with nested pages and different content types properly. I wrote a Node.js script that goes through workspaces one by one - keeps you under the rate limits. Don’t forget error handling since some pages might be locked out from permission changes. There’s no bulk export like the manual one, so you’re rebuilding the content structure from scratch. Takes some setup time but totally worth it if you’re doing regular exports.
Yeah, the Notion API handles this pretty well, but there are some gotchas. You’ll need separate integration tokens for each workspace since API access is workspace-specific.
I’ve found the blocks endpoint works way better than trying to rebuild everything from just the pages endpoint, especially with complex nested stuff.
What really caught me off guard was how each block type needs different handling - databases, callouts, embedded content all have their own weird quirks. Plus you’ll lose some formatting compared to native export, so you might need extra processing.
The API docs have decent examples for page hierarchies, but expect to debug edge cases with weird content structures.