Can you give me an example?(I need help!)

[ileonemil]

Hi! I'm new to coding...can you please give me some examples of anything? Especially how to create a block...Python continuously gives me an error KeyError: 'secret_...' but I'm sure that all the codes are ok. This is what I was searching to do:

from pprint import pprint
from notion_client import Client
import os

notion = Client(auth=os.environ["secret_123456789012345678901234567890"])

notion.pages.create({
    parent: {
      database_id: '12345678901234567890',
    },
    properties: {
      Name: {
        title: [
          {
            text: {
              content: 'Giargiana',
            }
            }
          ]
        }
      }
    }
)

Edit by ramnes: I removed a token and beautified code.

[aahnik]

This is a duplicate question. Read this #23. Please search existing questions before asking one. You could have typed "KeyError" in the search bar of GitHub discussions. Learn markdown to format your code in your question.

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Read the Quick Start guide. This guide gives the correct code to try out this library.

You can see first project example after reading the quick start guide.

Please explore the documentation and readme before asking questions. Also, make sure to google search your error message.

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If you have google searched "python key error" you would have got some idea about the mistake you were making.

From your code it seems that you don't know about os.environ. Read this article to learn

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notion = Client(auth=os.environ["secret_123456789012345678901234567890"])

this line is wrong. This is not how you load environment variables.

you must give the name of the environment variable. The key of the os.environ mapping is the name of the environment variable.

The correct code is this

notion = Client(auth=os.environ["NOTION_TOKEN"])

You must set the value of NOTION_TOKEN environment variable.

In your terminal, you can run.

export NOTION_TOKEN=secret123abc...

You can also use a .env file and the python-dotenv library. I have used the python-dotenv library in the first_project example and also here #23 (comment)

[ileonemil]

Hi! Thanks for all the resources, they've helped a lot. I finally managed to do what I wanted, but I think I bypassed the virtual env, is that a problem? Anyway now I have to automate the code to run every day, I think I'll use Cron.
Massive thanks!!!

[aahnik]

I bypassed the virtual env, is that a problem?

That can be a problem in the future. Watch this to learn https://youtu.be/Kg1Yvry_Ydk

[ileonemil]

Watched it, it's just that I don't know how to make python running in the venv automatically from the script. I don't want to switch the directory from the terminal every time...

[aahnik]

you need to activate the virtual environment to use it. once done, deactivate it. this is helpful, when you have many python projects in your computer.

the dependencies of different projects will not collide if you use separate virtual environments.

[ileonemil]

Ok thank you, you're very kind :)