Notion API

The Public Beta of the Notion API dropped! Woot! Right here’s their information. I’ve been a Notion person and fan for a very long time, for each private {and professional} staff use. They even sponsored a number of movies round right here some time again which are nonetheless a terrific illustration of how I take advantage of Notion. As a result of Notion is so workflow-oriented, it’s an ideal app to have API integrations with, making this launch really feel prefer it was a very long time coming.

It is a full-blown API, so you are able to do belongings you’d anticipate to have the ability to do, like cURL for customers, the content material of pages, and manipulate databases. They’ve detailed documentation, anticipated obstacles like price limits, and even a JavaScript SDK.

This modifications the sport on some present companies. For instance, Tremendous was at all times a reasonably neat strategy to make a Notion-powered web site, nevertheless it felt a little bit dangerous to me. What if Notion didn’t like that utilization and minimize it off in some way? Or launched their very own comparable instrument? Meh, not dangerous anymore. Apps like Tremendous can relaxation simple realizing there’s a actual API for this in order that they don’t must do no matter workaround they have been doing earlier than (scraping?) and this type of utilization is probably going inspired, if something.

I additionally suppose it was tremendous sensible of Notion to incorporate pre-built integrations with different companies persons are positively going to need. For instance, you possibly can join a type on TypeForm to a Notion database in order that new entries are routinely positioned there. Even higher, they’ve Zapier and Automate integrations, so you possibly can wire up nearly any app-to-app integration to you possibly can consider.

I used to be able to get utilizing this API straight away. On ShopTalk Present we have now an ask query type and we despatched these submissions to Trello as a strategy to put them someplace the place we may reference and manage them. However we don’t actually use Trello a lot nowadays; however we’ve used Notion for planning for ages. I’ve lengthy needed a strategy to pipe questions from that type proper into Notion. I used to be all prepared to write down a little bit code to do it, however I didn’t must because of the Zapier integration.

Right here’s how I received that working. The ShopTalk type exists in Wufoo:

Which we embed on our WordPress web site:

I arrange a Zapier set off to fireplace when that type is submitted:

To verify it could possibly go someplace in Notion, I needed to create a brand new Integration on the Notion aspect:

This subsequent half is essential! It’s a must to explicitly share the database with the mixing, as if the mixing was a person.

When you’ve carried out that, you possibly can see the Notion database on the Zapier aspect, and map the Wufoo type fields to the Notion database fields.

Now when the shape is stuffed out, we get the brand new questions instantly over in Notion, which is the place we do our present planning anyway! No extra copy and pasting crap from different locations!

I used to be very glad to get this all carried out actually on day considered one of having this API in public beta. Nice job Notion!

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