notion-rehype

notion-rehype

Turn Notion blocks(from API) into rehype(hast), so you can make the most of the rich rehype ecosystem.

Usage

import { unified } from 'unified';
import notionRehype from 'notion-rehype';
import rehypeKatex from 'rehype-katex';
import rehypeStringify from 'rehype-stringify';

const notionBlocks = [
  {
    // ... some properties omitted
    type: 'paragraph',
    paragraph: {
      // ... some properties omitted
      rich_text: [{ plain_text: 'This is a Notion paragraph' }],
    },
  },
];

const processor = unified()
  .use(notionRehype) // Parse Notion blocks to rehype AST
  .use(rehypeKatex) // Then you can use any rehype plugins to enrich the AST
  .use(rehypeStringify); // Turn AST to HTML string

// Due to the limitation of the `.process()` method,
// notion blocks should be passed in with a wrapper `{ data: xxx }`;
const vFile = unifiedInst.process({ data: notionBlocks });
// Or you can pass a string in.
// The plugin will use JSON.parse to parse any string argument.
const vFile = unifiedInst.process(JSON.stringify(notionBlocks));

const html = vFile.toString(); // get the output HTML string
assert(html === '<p>This is a Notion paragraph</p>');

Plugin Options

The plugin offers many options to customize the output, you can set options in this way: .use(notionRehype, { ...options })

Option	Type	Default Value	Description
notionPrefix	string	'notion-'	The prefix of the classes and attributes that relates to Notion. e.g. <section class="notion-callout"><section>, the 'notion-' is the prefix.
enableNestedParagraph	boolean	false	Should paragraph elements supports nesting. If true, the paragraph element which has children will turn into <div> instead of <p>, since the <p> element doesn't allow nesting. Which might leads to lower accessibility
enableBlockId	boolean	false	Should add block id info to DOM or not. If true, the DOMs will have a data-{prefix}-block-id attribute.
convertRawHtml	(richTextObj: any) => string | false | undefined | null	undefined	A function to test should a block.[type].rich_text item turn to raw HTML. If should, this function returns the raw HTML value. e.g. convertRawHtml: (richTextObj) => richTextObj.plain_text.startsWith('@@') ? richTextObj.plain_text.slice(2) : null, will render like this: Notion Block: 'TEST. @@<span>test</span>. TEST' -> Result: <p>TEST. <span>test</span>. TEST</p>
pageReference	{ [pageId: string]: any }	{}	Used in link_to_page blocks, since the blocks don't contain page metadatas, the info should be passed in from the outside.
footnoteReference	{ [blockId: string]: any }	{}	[NOT STABLE - this option will change anytime following Notion Comment API changes. Use it at your own rick] If a block has a 'footnote placeholder' (a rich_text item which is inline code and text is [^]), it will search for the relevant block comments, and use the comments as footnote for placeholder.
footnoteTitle	string	'Footnotes'	The Footnote Title. If set to <hr>, will render a hr element rather than a h2 title.
footnoteBackLabel	string	'Back to ref'	The title and aria text for a footnote's 'go back' icon.

TODO

• Types support
• Unit tests
• Engineering (ESLint, Prettier, …etc.)