notion-jam

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)

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Usage

Quick Start

1. Create a new Notion Integration

   

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.

      

3. Share the Database with the integration

   

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/notion-jam@v0.0.10
           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