NOTION FILE API IS HERE: Everything You Need To Know

As of today, you can finally upload files to Notion via the API.

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This is an update for the Notion API that we have wanted for a long time. It's finally possible to upload files to Notion.

This unlocks a tonne of advanced use cases both for personal workflows and for team setups.

In this video, I will walk you through everything you need to know to get started with uploading files to Notion.

In this specific situation, we are going to use the automation tool Make.com to add an icon to a Notion page or append an image to a Notion page via the API.

But you could use pretty much any no-code automation tool to build these workflows.

What's more, this simple method can be used to upload pretty much any kind of file to Notion. You could add PDFs, audio files, video files, or images.

Once uploaded, you can use them freely with the existing Notion blocks. So you can use them as icons or cover images or add them to any block or property in Notion.

Once you figured out how to upload files to Notion via the API, you can try out one of these starting use cases:

Add email attachments to Notion.
Add invoices to Notion.
Add headshots for employees to Notion.
Add journal entries to Notion.
Programmatically create banners for Notion

Here are the API Page Body Contents referenced in the video:

To set an icon:

URL: https://api.notion.com/v1/pages/YOUR_...

{
"icon": {
"type": "file_upload",
"file_upload": {
"id": "{{5.data.id}}"
}
}
}

To add it to the page body:

URL: https://api.notion.com/v1/blocks/YOUR...

{
"children": [
{
"type": "image",
"image": {
"caption": [],
"type": "file_upload",
"file_upload": {
"id": "'"$FILE_UPLOAD_ID'""
}
}
}
]
}

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Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:43 How to upload a file to Notion via API
01:56 Preview of File to Notion Upload
02:18 Get your file ready
05:04 Start file to Notion upload via the API
06:44 Upload the file to Notion
10:47 Set Notion Page Icon via API
13:50 Add Image to Notion Page via API
15:38 Use Cases
18:15 Outro

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