`>` and other kinds of "Blocks"?

[haakonstorm]

Hi Cobertos and thanks for md2notion! As I don't know Python well enough to use notion-py, I piggybacked on your skills and wrote a quick zsh wrapper around this script, so I can use Notion as a place to dump various system logs. Basically I take whatever comes on stdin, dumps that to file and hands it to md2notion who does a great job. However, I'd love for somehow to be able to add "toggle" Blocks in Notion. You know the ones that start with > in Notion, but isn't a QuoteBlock? Possible somehow?

[Cobertos]

Woops, forgot about this one.

Are you looking to support some sort of custom Markdown > Toggle Block conversion or would you like to handle it in the script?

I can give some code snippets the next time I loop back to this

[haakonstorm]

Anything goes! What would be awesome would be somehow to use md2notion as a CLI interface to Notion. My daemonized script is trying to parse what the user is doing, and decide when the activity changed context. Continously logging to inside a temporarily named, open, "toggle", and then upon changing context, somehow retroactively changing the text in the toggle block itself, then closing the toggle block and opening a new. As in opening and closing chapters in a book, that's the idea.

[Cobertos]

Probably the easiest way to get a ToggleBlock into Notion through this script, it'd be easiest to just post-process the output of convert() and change one of the blocks into a ToggleBlock.

from md2notion.upload import convert, uploadBlock
from notion.block import ToggleBlock

rendered = convert(mdFile)

# Example output for rendered:
# [   {'title': 'test', 'type': <class 'notion.block.TextBlock'>},
#   {'title': 'this is a test', 'type': <class 'notion.block.TextBlock'>},
#   {   'title': 'this is a really big test. How big? pretty big but I bet you '
#                "didn't see it coming. It's not "
#                '[here](https://example.com)...',
#       'type': <class 'notion.block.TextBlock'>},
#   {   'children': [],
#       'title': "It's here",
#       'type': <class 'notion.block.BulletedListBlock'>},
#   {   'children': [],
#       'title': 'Or here',
#       'type': <class 'notion.block.BulletedListBlock'>},
#   {   'children': [],
#       'title': 'or maybe here',
#       'type': <class 'notion.block.BulletedListBlock'>}]

# Just change the class of one of the blocks to a `ToggleBlock`

rendered[0]['type'] = notion.block.ToggleBlock

# Upload all the blocks
for blockDescriptor in rendered:
    uploadBlock(blockDescriptor, page, mdFile.name)

Personally, I would just use notion-py directly for that though, especially if you want to be able to open and close the Toggle blocks. It has a more rich feature set than this library.