Notion API – Full Course for Beginners

Learn how to work with the Notion API using JavaScript in this comprehensive beginner's tutorial. 🔽 EXPAND TO SEE TIMESTAMPS AND RESOURCES 🔽 📝 WRITTEN VERSION (contains much more detailed explanations and resource links for everything): https://thomasjfrank.com/notion-api-crash-course/ 🔗 PROJECT RESOURCES Notion Pokédex Template: https://thomasfrank.notion.site/Notion-Pok-dex-Template-4fc48e2918944e859e30d387279a311b Glitch project: https://glitch.com/edit/#!/notion-pokedex PokéAPI: https://pokeapi.co/ Notion API: https://developers.notion.com/reference/intro Notion property values: https://developers.notion.com/reference/property-value-object 🧠 ULTIMATE BRAIN (Full Second-Brain Template - use LETSGO2023 at checkout): https://thomasjfrank.com/brain/ 📚 NOTION FUNDAMENTALS (Free & Complete Notion Beginner's Course) https://thomasjfrank.com/fundamentals/ 🎥 CREATOR'S COMPANION (The Best Template for Content Creators - use LETSGO2023 at checkout): https://thomasjfrank.com/creators-companion/ 🛠 MORE COURSES AND RESOURCES: https://thomasjfrank.com/templates/ https://thomasjfrank.com/courses/ 💪GET STARTED WITH NOTION: https://thomasjfrank.com/usenotion/ - (this is my referral link) 🔗 More Video Links: Notion Formula Guide: http://notionformulaguide.com/ Axios docs: https://axios-http.com/docs/intro MDN Web Docs: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/ Notion Databases: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAJOpO73d8Y Send YouTube Stats to Notion (no-code): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUeFtATlIDY 🐦Connect with me: Twitter ➔ https://twitter.com/tomfrankly (best way to interact with me) Instagram ➔ https://instagram.com/tomfrankly Music ➔ @ThomasFrankMusic ----- ⏱ TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 - Introduction 01:50 - Project wverview 03:12 - JavaScript prerequisites (or lack thereof) 04:15 - Companion blog post 04:59 - Pokedex project spec 06:07 - Pokedex template link 07:10 - PokeAPI Introduction 07:30 - What is an API? 08:10 - Script flow overview 08:26 - PokeAPI response example 10:25 - Script flow whiteboard diagram Build Start 12:30 - Glitch.com introduction 13:35 - Create a Node.JS starter app 14:19 - Starter project tour 15:03 - Create index.js Prepare Notion 15:38 - Create a Notion API integration 16:58 - Get your internal integration token 17:24 - Create a .env file and add environmental variables 18:13 - Get your Notion database ID 19:40 - Add you integration to your database Get Data from PokeAPI 20:49 - PokeAPI docs 22:09 - Axios library introduction 22:40 - Add Axios to package.json 23:23 - Side note: Dealing with broken npm packages 24:44 - Add the Notion SDK to package.json 25:50 - Add require statements to index.js 27:08 - Make your first call to PokeAPI 30:52 - Get response from PokeAPI 31:54 - Log a Pokemon's name 33:46 - Create an object definition to contain Pokemon stats 38:55 - Log the pokeData object Send Data to Notion 39:17 - Add the pokeData object to your array 40:36 - Build the createNotionPage() function 41:36 - Notion API reference overview 43:53 - Create the response variable 46:12 - Side Note: Notion API page property values change 47:01 - Notion API page property reference 47:59 - Title property object structure 48:30 - Continue constructing the response variable 52:35 - Call the createNotionPage() function 53:25 - Add logging to the script 54:32 - Run the script and send your first call to Notion Create Multiple Pages at Once 56:15 - Fetch multiple Pokemon at once with a loop 58:02 - API commands overview (GET, POST, etc.) 58:56 - Run the script again and fetch multiple records Refine Your Data 01:00:13 - Start refining your data 01:01:35 - Get sprits and artwork from PokeAPI 01:03:33 - Overview of additional information to get from PokeAPI 01:04:06 - Refine the sprite variable 01:06:25 - Create the Pokemon types array 01:09:25 - Create the Bulbapedia URL 01:11:55 - Process and format each Pokemon's name 01:14:40 - MDN Web Docs introduction 01:15:49 - Regular expression references 01:25:43 - Send the refined/additional information to Notion 01:27:55 - Set the Notion page cover and icon 01:29:55 - Add child blocks to each Notion page 01:31:18 - Create a bookmark block for the Bulbapedia URL 01:32:00 - Send another batch of test pages to Notion Add Flavor Text, Generation, and Category 01:34:00 - Add missing pieces of information (flavor text, generation, etc.) 01:34:44 - PokeAPI pokemon-species endpoint overview 01:35:35 - Create another loop to call pokemon-species 01:38:00 - My #1 tip for learning programming and APIs 01:39:23 - Get the English-language flavor text 01:47:30 - Add formatted flavor text to the pokeData object 01:48:13 - Add the category and generation info to the pokeData object 01:52:35 - Add the new information to the Notion API call 01:58:31 - Test the finished script! Tutorial Wrap-Up 02:00:50 - Source code and additional resources 02:04:20 - More Notion resources and templates ----- 🎞 SPECIAL THANKS Select video clips supplied by Getty Images