Is It Possible to Import Files from the Notion Component into a Custom Action/Step in Pipedream?

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Hey everyone.
I am a novice in Pipedream and i am trying to make some workflows for automating stuff in Notion, that i can not do with the available actions.

Question:
Can i import files from the Notion component?
There is an action called duplicate page inside Pipedream and inside the action there is these imports:

import notion from "../../notion.app.mjs";
import base from "../common/base-page-builder.mjs";
import utils from "../../common/utils.mjs";

Can i somehow import them in my own custom action/step?

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Yup! Each component is published as an npm package.

For example, you can import the @pipedream/notion npm package and use the main notion.app.mjs file as an module:

import notion from '@pipedream/notion'

// notion is the notion.app.mjs file exported from the Pipedream registry
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Dylan - thank you for that.
It is because the duplicate page action only works for duplicating a page to another page but don’t for a page within a database.

const page = {
      parent: {
        page_id: this.parentId,
      },
      properties: {
        title: utils.buildTextProperty(title),
      },
      cover: this.isFile(cover)
        ? null
        : cover,
      icon: this.isFile(icon)
        ? null
        : icon,
      children: formattedChildren,
    };

The parent object should use database_id instead if the parent is a database… So i had to write my own action doing essentially the same.

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Oh nice catch Jesper. Sounds like this action might be useful to others integrating Notion. Did you know you can open PRs and contribute your actions back to the main repo?

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Hi Dylan. No i am completely new to Pipedream and NodeJS/Javascript is not among my core competencies - but i managed to get it to work though.

How do I contribute, then I might polish my soulution and open a PR.

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Oh, very nice. That’s impressive you were able to track that down and make your own component.

Here’s the official guide: Components Guidelines & Patterns - Pipedream

But you can also join the channel here for help. Don’t worry about opening a rough PR, the PD developers will give you helpful feedback, they don’t bite