Notion as a Headless CMS: A Production-Ready Python SDK

Unlock the power of Notion as a fast, flexible, and collaborative headless CMS for your applications. This Python SDK provides a robust, asynchronous, and type-safe interface to the official Notion API, making it easier than ever to use Notion as a database backend, similar to Strapi or Contentful.

This library is designed for production use with FastAPI, offering a seamless integration experience with dependency injection, Pydantic V2 data validation, and a clean, modern API.

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✨ Key Features

• Notion as a Database: Specifically designed to treat your Notion databases as a fully-featured, user-friendly CMS.
• Fully Asynchronous: Built with httpx for high-performance, non-blocking I/O suitable for modern web frameworks.
• Pydantic V2 Models: Comprehensive, type-hinted models for all Notion objects, ensuring data integrity and providing excellent editor support.
• Complete API Coverage: Interacts with all major Notion API endpoints: Databases, Pages, Blocks, Users, and Search.
• Secure Webhook Handling: Includes utilities for verifying webhook signatures to securely process real-time updates from Notion.
• Production-Ready: Comes with robust error handling, rate limit considerations, and a clean, modular structure.
• FastAPI Integration: Simple to integrate with FastAPI's dependency injection system.

🚀 The "Notion as a CMS" Philosophy

Why use Notion as a backend? It's the perfect blend of a powerful, structured database and a user-friendly, collaborative editor. Unlike traditional headless CMS platforms, Notion allows non-technical team members to manage content with zero learning curve.

• Intuitive Content Management: Your team can create, edit, and manage content using Notion's beautiful and intuitive interface.
• Flexible Data Structures: Design complex data models using Notion's database properties (Text, Numbers, Selects, Relations, etc.).
• Real-Time Collaboration: Multiple editors can work on content simultaneously.
• Programmatic Access: This SDK provides the bridge to fetch and manipulate that content in any application.

Think of it as Strapi with the world's best editor. You define the schema in Notion, and your team manages the content, while your application consumes it via a clean, modern API.

⚙️ Installation

You can add this library to your project using pip:

# Install from PyPI (once published)
pip install notion-fastapi-sdk

# Or, install directly from GitHub
pip install git+https://github.com/techwithty/notion-sdk-python.git

⚡ Quick Start

Here's a simple example of how to initialize the client and query a database.

import asyncio
from notion_client import AsyncNotionClient

# Best practice: store your token in an environment variable
NOTION_TOKEN = "secret_..."
DATABASE_ID = "your_database_id_here"

async def main():
    # 1. Initialize the asynchronous client
    async with AsyncNotionClient(auth=NOTION_TOKEN) as client:

        # 2. Query your database
        response = await client.databases.query(database_id=DATABASE_ID)

        # 3. Process the results
        for page in response.get('results', []):
            try:
                title = page['properties']['Name']['title'][0]['plain_text']
                print(f"- Fetched Page: {title}")
            except (KeyError, IndexError):
                print("- Fetched a page with no title.")

if __name__ == "__main__":
    asyncio.run(main())

🤝 Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Whether it's a bug report, a new feature, or documentation improvements, please feel free to open an issue or submit a pull request.

1. Fork the repository.
2. Create a new branch (git checkout -b feature/your-feature-name).
3. Make your changes and add tests.
4. Ensure all tests pass.
5. Submit a pull request with a clear description of your changes.

📄 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for details.