@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.

Features

Search — full-text search across your entire workspace
Export — download any page as clean markdown (headings, lists, to-do, code blocks, tables, links, images with viewable URLs)
Import — write markdown back to Notion pages (replaces content), from a string or local file
Append — add markdown to the end of a page without touching existing content
Create — spin up new child pages, optionally prefilled from a markdown string or file
Images — upload a local image to a page, or reference an external URL
Comments — list open discussions, add new comments, reply to threads
One-command setup — npx @shck-dev/notion-mcp init: paste a browser "Copy as cURL" and it extracts + saves your credentials
Prompts & resources — a notion_setup prompt and a notion://guide resource for in-client onboarding
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; image links resolve to viewable CDN URLs (pass `image_dir` to download images locally instead)
`notion_import_page`	Write markdown to a Notion page — replaces all existing content
`notion_import_page_from_file`	Write a local `.md` file to a page — replaces all content
`notion_append_to_page`	Append markdown to the end of a page (non-destructive)
`notion_append_to_page_from_file`	Append a local `.md` file to the end of a page (non-destructive)
`notion_create_page`	Create a new sub-page, optionally prefilled with markdown
`notion_create_page_from_file`	Create a new sub-page from a local `.md` file
`notion_add_image`	Append an image to the end of a page — local file is uploaded to Notion, http(s) URL is referenced as-is
`notion_list_comments`	List open discussion threads on a page
`notion_add_comment`	Start a new discussion — inline (anchored to text) or block-level
`notion_reply_comment`	Reply to an existing discussion thread
`notion_init`	Paste a browser "Copy as cURL" to extract & save credentials

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

Easiest: interactive setup

Terminal

npx @shck-dev/notion-mcp init

Open Notion in Chrome → DevTools (F12) → Network → click any request to notion.so/api/v3/… → right-click → Copy as cURL, then paste it and press Ctrl-D. Your token, user id, and workspace id are extracted and saved to ~/.notion-mcp/config.json. Then register the server — no env block needed:

Terminal

claude mcp add notion -- npx @shck-dev/notion-mcp

Prefer to set the three values by hand? Steps below.

1. Get credentials from your browser

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

2. Configure your MCP client

Claude Code

Terminal

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

Claude Desktop / Cursor / any MCP client

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

config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "notion": {
      "command": "npx",
      "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

Node.js ≥ 18 (for npx) — or Bun. The published server is compiled to node-compatible JS, so Bun is no longer required to run it.

Limitations

Internal API — undocumented, may break with Notion updates
Token expiry — token_v2 expires periodically; re-grab from browser when auth fails
Databases — database/collection pages don't export rows yet; sub-pages render as links and such pages return an explanatory note instead of empty output
Block granularity — import replaces all content, append adds to the end (no in-place editing of individual blocks)
Lossy markdown — some complex formatting may simplify during conversion (e.g. nested lists flatten on import)
External images — http(s) image URLs added via notion_add_image (or embedded in markdown) are referenced as-is and not re-uploaded to Notion

License

MIT