@shck-dev/notion-mcp

Notion MCP Server — search, export, and import pages as markdown

No workspace admin. No OAuth. No page sharing.
Just paste 3 values from your browser and go.

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Features

• Search — full-text search across your entire workspace
• Export — download any page as clean markdown (headings, lists, code blocks, tables, links)
• Import — write markdown back to Notion pages, from a string or local file
• Zero setup friction — uses the same internal API as the Notion web app; if you can see it in your browser, this server can access it

Tools

| Tool | Description | |------|-------------| | notion_search | Full-text search across all pages in your workspace | | notion_export_page | Export any Notion page as markdown | | notion_import_page | Write markdown content to a Notion page | | notion_import_page_from_file | Write a local .md file to a Notion page |

Why not the official Notion API?

| | This MCP server | Official Notion API | |---|----------|-------------------| | Setup | Paste 3 values from DevTools | Create integration, get admin approval, share pages | | Page access | Everything you can see | Only explicitly shared pages | | Markdown | Bidirectional (export + import) | Read-only blocks API | | Auth | Cookie (token_v2) | OAuth / integration token |

Trade-off: The internal API is undocumented and may change. Token expires periodically (re-grab from browser).

Quick start

1. Get credentials from your browser

1. Open notion.so in Chrome
2. Press F12 → Application → Cookies → www.notion.so
3. Copy the token_v2 cookie value → NOTION_TOKEN
4. Press F12 → Network tab, do any action in Notion
5. Find a POST request to api/v3/*, click it
6. From Request Headers: copy x-notion-active-user-header → NOTION_USER_ID
7. From Request Body (Payload): find spaceId → NOTION_SPACE_ID

2. Configure your MCP client

Claude Code

claude mcp add notion -- env NOTION_TOKEN=your_token NOTION_USER_ID=your_user_id NOTION_SPACE_ID=your_space_id bunx @shck-dev/notion-mcp

Claude Desktop / Cursor / any MCP client

Add to your MCP config (claude_desktop_config.json, .cursor/mcp.json, etc.):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "notion": {
      "command": "bunx",
      "args": ["@shck-dev/notion-mcp"],
      "env": {
        "NOTION_TOKEN": "your_token_v2_value",
        "NOTION_USER_ID": "your_user_id",
        "NOTION_SPACE_ID": "your_space_id"
      }
    }
  }
}

Requirements

• Bun runtime — curl -fsSL https://bun.sh/install | bash

Limitations

• Internal API — undocumented, may break with Notion updates
• Token expiry — token_v2 expires periodically; re-grab from browser when auth fails
• Pages only — no database queries (search, export, import work on pages)
• Replace-only import — import replaces all page content (no append/merge)
• Lossy markdown — some complex formatting may simplify during conversion

License

MIT