Notion-Backup

Backup all of your notion notes, and optionally upload them to a git repo.

Usage

0. Make sure you have git installed and it's in your $PATH variable.

1. Create a folder where you want to export your notion notes to and optionally make it a git repo.

2. Run Notion-Backup executable, if you don't want to backup to a git repo append nogit to the end of the command (eg. ./Notion-Backup nogit).

   Run Notion-Backup from your cli (e.g., on windows open cmd and execute Notion-Backup.exe from there, if on linux do the same but in your shell). You can probably skip this if you have your Git login saved, but if you encounter any errors, try running from your shell.

3. (Happens only first time) Enter your API Token (look below on how to get it).

4. (Happens only first time) Enter the path to the folder you created in step 1.

5. Wait for Notion-Backup to download your notes.

6. If asked for authentication:

   • Windows

     On windows a prompt will open allowing you to login to Git through the web browser or by using a personal access token.

   • Linux

     On Linux you will be asked for a username and password in the command line. If you have 2FA enabled, use a personal access token as your password with the repo privilege set.

   Optionally you can save your login credentials for Git so you don't have to authenticate everytime:

   # More info: https://stackoverflow.com/a/35942890/11025032
   git config --global credential.helper store
   git pull
   

7. Done..

Getting your notion API Key

1. Go to notion.so in your web browser.
2. Open Inspect Element (Ctrl+Shift+I) and go to the Network tab.
3. Refresh the page (whilst logged in) so network requests show up.
4. Click on the first request (most of the other requests will also work) and in the new menu click on Cookies.
5. Under Request Cookies find token_v2 and copy its value (eg. token_v2: "myTokenHere" in this case, your token is: myTokenHere).
6. If you don't see token_v2, click on a different request and then repeat from step 4.
7. Done.. copy your API Token into Notion-Backup.