notion-py VS notion-sdk-py

If your project is in Python you can do it with unofficial SDK like so

Also if you are planning on uploading files or images to notion then you'll have to stick to the unofficial SDK for now, since the official one does not support creating file objects yet. You'll have to apply a few patches from the pull requests though to make it work properly, since the project is not maintained for a while.

Slightly unrelated, but notion's unofficial python API is cool AF! https://github.com/jamalex/notion-py

It's way more powerful than their official API. The official API can only interact with databases, which (as anyone who uses Notion knows) is a tiny subset of the overall things you want to use Notion for.

The unofficial Python API lets you have complete programmatic access to all notion pages.

The tradeoff is that certain things break. However, after reading the code, I found it quite easy to fix the problems I ran into (https://github.com/jamalex/notion-py/pull/345) and I suspect you'll be able to do the same. (I empathize with maintainers not prioritizing their open source work ahead of family life, business, etc.)

Was surprised that it was even possible to have a nice Python class for every possible Notion object, let alone control them and update them on the fly. I wish their official API would be as flexible. Maybe one day.

Guessing you're using the Python client mentioned here: https://github.com/jamalex/notion-py ?

ramnes/notion-sdk-py: The official Notion API client library, but rewritten in Python! (sync + async) (github.com)

Now the problem is that the Notion API (I'm using https://github.com/ramnes/notion-sdk-py) is super slow... If the table have over 100 elements, the data needs to be retrieved in several API calls, which take ages (like 2 minutes from some of my tables...). Clearly, a chart that takes 2 minutes to load is unusable.

Maybe that's not the kind of answer you need, but you can automate this using the API. I'm no dev, and granted learning the API's syntax can be cumbersome, but with python-sdk-py that shouldn't be that hard.

For python https://github.com/ramnes/notion-sdk-py https://pypi.org/project/notion/

oh okay - I never had to use those b/c I used this library: https://github.com/ramnes/notion-sdk-py

I think the best source of examples for now is to look at the projects that already use the SDK.

Generate an image, upload it on any hosting service, and append an image block with notion-sdk-py. :)

Hey! People have been working on this idea here: https://github.com/ramnes/notion-sdk-py if you want to add on!

That's great! I too couldn't figure out the Javascript API so I ended up using the Python SDK (https://github.com/ramnes/notion-sdk-py) instead. I still ended up having to format lots of the requests like Javascript but it made things a little easier.