View as Markdown
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Notion ACTION

Retrieve Page Content

Get page content as block objects or markdown. Blocks can be text, lists, media, a page, among others. Example: blockId "1a2b3c4d-..." with Retrieve Children set to All Children and Retrieve as Markdown enabled → returns the block with its nested children array plus a markdownContent string of the page text. See the documentation
  • Action
  • Read only
  • OAuth
  • SDK
  • MCP

IMPLEMENTATION

Call this tool

Connect a user's Notion account once, then configure and run Retrieve Page Content from your backend or agent.

import { PipedreamClient } from "@pipedream/sdk"

const pd = new PipedreamClient({
  projectId: process.env.PIPEDREAM_PROJECT_ID!,
  clientId: process.env.PIPEDREAM_CLIENT_ID!,
  clientSecret: process.env.PIPEDREAM_CLIENT_SECRET!,
  projectEnvironment: "production",
})

const result = await pd.actions.run({
  id: "notion-retrieve-block",
  externalUserId: "{external_user_id}", // any stable ID for this user in your system
  configuredProps: {
    notion: { authProvisionId: "apn_xxxxxxx" },
    blockId: "Block ID",
    retrieveChildren: "Retrieve Children",
  },
})

console.log(result)

SCHEMA

Inputs

Pipedream supplies the connected account. Your application provides the operation-specific values below. Dynamic inputs are resolved against that user's account.

Retrieve Page Content inputs
Property Type Description
blockId Block ID string
The ID of the block to act on, e.g. 1a2b3c4d-5e6f-7890-abcd-ef1234567890 (a 32-character UUID, with or without dashes). A Notion page is itself a block, so this can also be a page ID. Use the Search action to resolve a page name into an ID, or the Retrieve Page Content action to list the child block IDs within a page.
Required
retrieveChildren Retrieve Children string
Retrieve all the children (recursively) for the specified page, or optionally filter to include only sub-pages in the result. See the documentation for more information
Optional
retrieveMarkdown Retrieve as Markdown boolean
Additionally return the page content as markdown
Optional

REFERENCE

Tool details

Behavior hints are published with the component in the Pipedream registry and surface as MCP tool annotations, so an agent can reason about a tool before it calls it.

Registry key
notion-retrieve-block
Version
0.3.0
App
Notion
Authentication
OAuth
Read-only
Yes
Destructive
No
Open world
Yes