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Connect Notion to your preprocessing pipeline, and use the Unstructured Ingest CLI or the Unstructured Ingest Python library to batch process all your documents and store structured outputs locally on your filesystem.

The requirements are as follows.

  • A Notion access token for an internal integration or public integration.

  • The IDs of any specific target Notion databases. To get a database’s ID:

    1. Open the database as a full page in Notion.

    2. Click Share, and then click Copy link.

    3. Paste the link in your text editor. The URL uses the following format:

      https://www.notion.so/{workspace_name}/{database_id}?v={view_id}

    4. Find the part that corresponds to {database_id} in the URL you pasted. It is a 36-character string. This value is the database’s ID.

      Note that if you receive a database ID by calling the Notion API, for example from the Notion search endpoint, it will contain hyphens in the UUIDv4 format. You may use either the hyphenated or un-hyphenated ID.

  • The IDs of any specific target Notion pages. To get a page’s ID:

    1. Open the page in Notion.

    2. Click Share, and then click Copy link.

    3. Paste the link in your text editor. The URL ends in a page ID. It should be a 32-character string.

    4. Format this value by inserting hyphens (-) in the following pattern: 8-4-4-4-12 (each number is the length of characters between the hyphens).

      Example: 1429989fe8ac4effbc8f57f56486db54 becomes 1429989f-e8ac-4eff-bc8f-57f56486db54.

      This value is the page’s ID.

The Notion connector dependencies:

CLI, Python
pip install "unstructured-ingest[notion]"

You might also need to install additional dependencies, depending on your needs. Learn more.

The following environment variables:

  • NOTION_ACCESS_TOKEN - The API key for the Notion integration, represented by --notion-api-key (CLI) or notion_api_key (Python).

Now call the Unstructured CLI or Python. The destination connector can be any of the ones supported. This example uses the local destination connector.

This example sends data to Unstructured for processing by default. To process data locally instead, see the instructions at the end of this page.

#!/usr/bin/env bash

# Chunking and embedding are optional. 

unstructured-ingest \
  notion \
    --notion-api-key $NOTION_ACCESS_TOKEN \
    --page-ids 4b1a4fff-d740-4e59-aa9f-cc5c7c2b4789,47dcbd6d-13f1-4fc1-af7d-5fc147697c00 \
    --database-ids 1382c376-5a0a-8034-a3c3-d33402979df2,f2a60ad9-c466-4b06-859d-1ab176dea8c8 \
    --recursive \
    --output-dir $LOCAL_FILE_OUTPUT_DIR \
    --partition-by-api \
    --api-key $UNSTRUCTURED_API_KEY \
    --partition-endpoint $UNSTRUCTURED_API_URL

For the Unstructured Ingest CLI and the Unstructured Ingest Python library, you can use the --partition-by-api option (CLI) or partition_by_api (Python) parameter to specify where files are processed:

  • To do local file processing, omit --partition-by-api (CLI) or partition_by_api (Python), or explicitly specify partition_by_api=False (Python).

    Local file processing does not use an Unstructured API key or API URL, so you can also omit the following, if they appear:

    • --api-key $UNSTRUCTURED_API_KEY (CLI) or api_key=os.getenv("UNSTRUCTURED_API_KEY") (Python)
    • --partition-endpoint $UNSTRUCTURED_API_URL (CLI) or partition_endpoint=os.getenv("UNSTRUCTURED_API_URL") (Python)
    • The environment variables UNSTRUCTURED_API_KEY and UNSTRUCTURED_API_URL

  • To send files to the Unstructured Partition Endpoint for processing, specify --partition-by-api (CLI) or partition_by_api=True (Python).

    Unstructured also requires an Unstructured API key and API URL, by adding the following:

    • --api-key $UNSTRUCTURED_API_KEY (CLI) or api_key=os.getenv("UNSTRUCTURED_API_KEY") (Python)
    • --partition-endpoint $UNSTRUCTURED_API_URL (CLI) or partition_endpoint=os.getenv("UNSTRUCTURED_API_URL") (Python)
    • The environment variables UNSTRUCTURED_API_KEY and UNSTRUCTURED_API_URL, representing your API key and API URL, respectively.

    You must specify the API URL only if you are not using the default API URL for Unstructured Ingest, for example, if you are using a self-hosted instance of the Unstructured API.

    The default API URL for Unstructured Ingest is https://api.unstructuredapp.io/general/v0/general, which is the API URL for the Unstructured Partition Endpoint. However, you should always use the URL that was provided to you when your Unstructured account was created. If you do not have this URL, contact Unstructured Sales at sales@unstructured.io.

    If you do not have an API key, get one now.

    If the Unstructured API is self-hosted, the process for generating Unstructured API keys, and the Unstructured API URL that you use, are different. For details, contact Unstructured Sales at sales@unstructured.io.