Wow I learned a ton doing this. Slack and Notion have great APIs and helpful docs, but being as new to this as I am, it took a lot of trial and error. A big part of this was figuring out how to translate Slack messages into stuff Notion can understand. You can find that whole project here.
This code will send a parent Slack message to a Notion database, complete with a title, properties, and a perfectly formatted body.
- split based on any punctuation mark or a new line
- formatted without link or user ickness
- character limit of 100
- emojis!!
- user who sent the Slack message
- date created
- multi-select tags
- link to the original slack message
- text formatting for
code- links
- bold text
- italicized text
strikethrough- bullet points
- (I think) ordered lists
- tagging users is automaticly done
- text links are formatted right]
- emojis!!
It will also update a Notion page with the thread message, with all the correct formatting.
@Victoria Slocum says: This is a great additional item to a Notion page!!
We found it helpful to have the channel topic be updated with the currect tags in use.
This code will automatically update the channel topic when a new tag is added!!
The Standup Bot will reply in the thread with the link to the created Notion page
Hey, I'm Victoria, and you can find my website here and the blog post for this page here.
I also tried this with Zapier first, and you can read about my experience here