Save Notion articles as Nuxt/Content-ready markdown files.

notion-to-markdown.js

// This script reads all pages in a Notion DB and saves them as Markdown files ready for Nuxt/Content.
// You will need a Notion Integration key to make the Client() work and the ID of the database yo want to save.

// Run this from the root dir of your Nuxt project. 

const fs = require('fs-extra');
const { Client } = require("@notionhq/client");
const { NotionToMarkdown } = require("notion-to-md");

const notionAuth = ""
const database_id = ""

const notion = new Client({
  auth: notionAuth
})

const n2m = new NotionToMarkdown({ notionClient: notion });

async function fetchDatabaseArticles() {
  return (await notion.databases.query({ database_id })).results
}

async function convertArticleToMD(article) {
  if (!article.properties.Status.status) return;

  const blocks = await n2m.pageToMarkdown(article.id);
  const content = n2m.toMarkdownString(blocks);

  const { properties, cover, created_time } = article

  const slug = properties.Slug.rich_text[0]["plain_text"]

  const data = `---
title: ${properties.Name.title[0]["plain_text"]}
slug: ${slug}
cover: ${cover['external'] ? cover['external'].url : cover['file'].url}
snippet: ${properties.Snippet.rich_text[0]["plain_text"]}
created_at: ${created_time}
published: ${properties.Status.status && properties.Status.status.name === 'Done' ? true : false}
type: ${properties.Type.select.name}
---

    ${content}
    `

    console.log(`Writing ${slug} to file.`)
    return await fs.writeFileSync(`./content/articles/${slug}.md`, data)
}

async function main() {
  const articles = await fetchDatabaseArticles()
  return articles.map(a => convertArticleToMD(a))
}

main();