Bucklespring

A library & command-line utility for converting Notion documents into Markdown (Mdast).

Bucklespring is built on Remark & Unified and so is fully compatible with all tools & plugins in the Remark ecosystem.

Use-cases

• Transforming Notion content into other formats (e.g. HTML with Rehype)
• Building proofing tools for Notion content (e.g. AlexJS).
• Exporting content (e.g. blog posts) into files for static-site generators (e.g. Github Pages).

Examples

JavaScript Library

More examples can be found in ./examples/

const { notionToMdast } = require('bucklespring')
const { getNotionPage } = require('bucklespring/helper/notion-api')
 
const notionPage = JSON.stringify(await getNotionPage("d08e52c1-1f05-4c27-85bc-e215261fa4dd"))
const tree = await unified()
    .use(notionToMdast)
    .use(serializeMarkdown)
    .use(frontMatter)
    .process(notionPage)
console.log(tree.toString())
}

Command-Line

# Export a page 
npx bucklespring notion export-page d08e52c1-1f05-4c27-85bc-e215261fa4dd
 
# Export a page using its frontmatter as a filename. 
npx bucklespring notion export-collection --filename "[title].md" d08e52c1-1f05-4c27-85bc-e215261fa4dd
 
# Export a collection with a collection-view 
npx bucklespring notion export-collection 53511a6a-726e-47db-82cc-dac166f31466 91d6a116-7f4f-44d3-ba10-6f96267da034
 
# Export a collection using their frontmatter for filenames 
npx bucklespring notion export-collection --dirname test --filename "[id].md" 53511a6a-726e-47db-82cc-dac166f31466 91d6a116-7f4f-44d3-ba10-6f96267da034

FAQ

Why not publish a major release?

Simply put: Until Notion's full API rollout, a major version seems irresponsible as the unofficial API may change. However! 0.x.x versions are as stable as any other unofficial API client.

This seems like an awful lot of trouble to go to for a blog/!

I agree! Reading an abstract-syntax-tree (AST) is an important first-step in being able to render something from a CMS. Both more traditional CMSes and block-based CMSes use a process such as this one for rendering.

With this library, you can render into HTML (via Rehype) or plug-and-play with any other Unified-compatible format.

Contributing

Kitchen Sink

An important concept in bucklespring is the Kitchen Sink, which is used as a Mock. This is a real page on Notion which includes many different inline block components. Its purpose is to validate that all of the converters are doing their jobs correctly.

Currently there is only one kitchen sink - although this is tested against other

Mocks

The easiest way to develop bucklespring is using the Kitchen Sink boilerplate.