I’m trying to figure out how to access all the recent changes and updates from my Notion workspace. I’ve been looking into the official Notion API but it seems like there’s no direct endpoint to fetch notification data or activity feeds.
Since the API approach isn’t working out, I’m wondering if anyone has experience with scraping the notification panel content directly from the web interface. Is it technically possible to extract all the information from that updates section?
Has anyone found a reliable way to programmatically access this kind of activity data from Notion? I’d appreciate any guidance on either API solutions I might have missed or successful scraping techniques for this specific use case.
scraping notion is a total nightmare - they’r heavy on JS and everythng loads dynamically. I tried it once and threw in the towel after a few days. u might want to check if notion has third-party integrations that can expose activity data. zapier or simlar tools might have hooks u can tap into instead of wrestlng with their frontend.
You can scrape Notion’s notification panel, but honestly, don’t. The interface uses dynamic loading and auth tokens that expire constantly - your scraper will break all the time. I’ve tried this before and spent way more time fixing it than actually getting useful data. Better approach: skip notifications entirely and use webhooks + periodic API polling instead. Yeah, Notion’s API doesn’t have notification endpoints, but you can build your own activity tracking. Just store snapshots of your pages and databases locally, then run scheduled checks comparing timestamps and content hashes. More upfront work? Sure. But it’s way more reliable than scraping and you get full control over what changes you want to track.
Had the same problem tracking Notion updates. The API doesn’t give you direct access to notifications, but I found a workaround that works well. Set up database queries to check for changes and monitor the ‘last_edited_time’ property. This catches recent updates without scraping anything. You can also track specific pages by checking their timestamps. It’s not as complete as scraping the notification panel, but it’s way more reliable and won’t break when Notion updates their interface. Just heads up - you’ll need to spend some time figuring out which databases and pages to monitor.