Notion Doc Reader

Notion Doc Reader

Read Notion page content through official Notion API endpoints. This skill is portable: copying this directory to another repository preserves the workflow, scripts, and tests.

Scope

Use this skill for:

• Reading a user-provided Notion page as markdown.
• Recursively reading direct child pages.
• Verifying that a local Notion internal integration token can read a page.
• Producing a compact page tree summary for agent context.

Do not use this skill for:

• Deleting, trashing, archiving, erasing, or moving Notion content.
• Updating Notion pages unless a separate write-oriented workflow is designed.
• Replacing official Notion API / SDK surfaces with a custom runtime client.

Requirements

• NOTION_ACCESS_TOKEN in the environment or in a local .env.
• Optional NOTION_VERSION; defaults to 2026-03-11.
• The Notion integration must have Read content.
• The target page or a parent page must be shared with the integration.

Read Workflow

1. Load token from local environment or .env.
2. Extract the page id from the user-provided Notion URL.
3. Read page markdown with: GET /v1/pages/{page_id}/markdown.
4. List page children with: GET /v1/blocks/{page_id}/children?page_size=100.
5. For every direct child_page block, repeat the same read flow until --max-depth or --max-pages is reached.

Default traversal follows page hierarchy only. It does not deep-scan every non-page nested block because large pages can contain many nested blocks and make smoke tests slow or noisy. --max-pages defaults to 50 to avoid accidentally crawling a very wide workspace tree.

Smoke Command

python3 .ai/skills/notion-doc-reader/scripts/notion_read_smoke.py \
  --env-file /path/to/.env \
  --max-depth 3 \
  --max-pages 50 \
  "<notion-page-url>"

Output is JSON with page ids, titles, markdown character counts, Notion markdown truncation flags, optional truncated_at_page_limit page-limit flags, unknown block ids, and discovered child pages. The script does not print tokens or full page markdown.

Verification

Run the bundled unit tests:

python3 .ai/skills/notion-doc-reader/scripts/test_notion_read_smoke.py

Run live read-only smoke only when a token and user-approved Notion page links are available:

python3 .ai/skills/notion-doc-reader/scripts/notion_read_smoke.py \
  --env-file /path/to/.env \
  --max-depth 3 \
  --max-pages 50 \
  "<notion-page-url-1>" \
  "<notion-page-url-2>"