MdToNotion: Markdown to Notion

Dependency-free gem to convert markdown and GitHub flavoured Markdown to Notion API blocks and richtext.

NOTE: this is a work in progress. It works for simple markdown, but has not been tested with all markdown syntax.

Installation

Install the gem and add to the application's Gemfile by executing:

$ bundle add md_to_notion

If bundler is not being used to manage dependencies, install the gem by executing:

$ gem install md_to_notion

Usage

MdToNotion::Parser.markdown_to_notion_blocks(
  "# heading 1"
)

result

{
    "type": "heading_1",
    "heading_1": {
      "rich_text": [
        {
          "type": "text",
          "text": {
            "content": "heading 1",
            "link": null
          },
          "annotations": {
            "bold": false,
            "italic": false,
            "strikethrough": false,
            "underline": false,
            "code": false
          },
          "href": null
        }
      ]
    }
  }

MdToNotion::Parser.markdown_to_notion_blocks(
  "> quote with *italic"
)

result

{
  "type": "quote",
  "quote": {
    "rich_text": [
      {
        "type": "text",
        "text": {
          "content": "quote with ",
          "link": null
        },
        "annotations": {
          "bold": false,
          "italic": false,
          "strikethrough": false,
          "underline": false,
          "code": false
        },
        "href": null
      },
      {
        "type": "text",
        "text": {
          "content": "italic",
          "link": null
        },
        "annotations": {
          "bold": false,
          "italic": true,
          "strikethrough": false,
          "underline": false,
          "code": false
        },
        "href": null
      }
    ]
  }
}

MdToNotion::Parser.markdown_to_notion_blocks <<~CODE
``ruby
puts 'it works with code blocks too!'
``
CODE

result

{
  "type": "code",
  "code": {
    "rich_text": [
      {
        "type": "text",
        "text": {
          "content": "puts 'it works with code blocks too!'",
          "content": null
        },
        "annotations": {
          "bold": false,
          "italic": false,
          "strikethrough": false,
          "underline": false,
          "code": false
        },
        "href": null
      }
    ],
    "language": "ruby"
  }
}

Development

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake spec to run the tests. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and the created tag, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/rieg-ec/md_to_notion.

License

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.