marknotion

Bidirectional Markdown ↔ Notion converter with CLI tools.

Installation

# With uv (recommended for CLI tools)
uv tool install marknotion

# Or with pip
pip install marknotion

Setup

1. Create a Notion Integration

1. Go to Notion Integrations
2. Click "New integration"
3. Give it a name (e.g., "marknotion")
4. Select capabilities: Read, Update, Insert content
5. Copy the "Internal Integration Token"

2. Set Environment Variable

export NOTION_TOKEN="secret_xxxxx..."

Or create a .env file in your project:

NOTION_TOKEN=secret_xxxxx...

3. Connect Pages to Your Integration

In Notion, open the page you want to access, click "..." menu → "Connections" → Add your integration.

CLI Commands

md2notion - Upload Markdown to Notion

# Update an existing page
md2notion README.md --page "https://notion.so/My-Page-abc123..."

# Create a new child page
md2notion guide.md --parent "abc123..." --title "User Guide"

notion2md - Export Notion to Markdown

# Print to stdout
notion2md "https://notion.so/My-Page-abc123..."

# Save to file
notion2md abc123... -o exported.md

notion-search - Search Notion Pages and Databases

# Search all (pages and databases)
notion-search "project"

# Search only databases (useful for finding database IDs)
notion-search "tracker" --type database

# Search only pages
notion-search "notes" --type page

# Limit results
notion-search project -n 5

Output includes type, ID, and clickable URL:

[Database] Projects
           ID:  1d73963f-ce05-8183-9af4-000b16a57189
           URL: https://www.notion.so/1d73963fce05813bac29eba023f0dd25

[Page]     Meeting Notes
           ID:  abc123de-f456-7890-1234-56789012abcd
           URL: https://www.notion.so/Meeting-Notes-abc123def4567890123456789012abcd

Python API

from marknotion import markdown_to_blocks, blocks_to_markdown, NotionClient

# Convert Markdown to Notion blocks
blocks = markdown_to_blocks("# Hello\n\nWorld")

# Convert Notion blocks to Markdown
md = blocks_to_markdown(blocks)

# Use NotionClient for API operations
client = NotionClient()  # Uses NOTION_TOKEN env var
client.update_page_content_from_markdown(page_id, markdown)

Supported Features

• Headings (h1-h3)
• Paragraphs
• Bold, italic, strikethrough, inline code
• Links
• Bullet lists, numbered lists
• Code blocks (with language)
• Blockquotes
• Horizontal rules

License

MIT