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NotionMCP — AI-Powered Notion Assistant via MCP

NotionMCP is a Modular Context Protocol (MCP) server that exposes advanced Notion search, reading, summarization, and emotion-analysis tools to any MCP-compatible LLM client such as Claude Desktop.

This project turns your Notion workspace into an intelligent, queryable knowledge system, giving your AI assistant the ability to:

  • Search pages and databases with precision

  • Read and extract block-level content

  • Summarize large or complex Notion pages

  • Analyze sentiment/emotion of page text

  • Build AI workflows on top of your Notion data

  • Operate securely using the MCP standard

It is built for:

  • Developers

  • Researchers

  • Data science teams

  • Knowledge-intensive organizations

  • Anyone wanting an AI agent deeply integrated with Notion


Features

Intelligent Notion Search

  • Title search

  • Page/database filtering

  • Pagination + streaming search

  • User discovery tools

Advanced Content Reading

  • Extract readable text from pages

  • Traverse block structures

  • Read pages by name or ID

  • Support for headings, lists, checkboxes, callouts, quotes, etc.

AI Summaries & Emotion Analysis

  • Abstractive summarization (T5)

  • Emotion/tone classification (Transformers)

  • Integrated into Notion workflows

Fully MCP-Compatible

Works out-of-the-box with:

  • Claude Desktop

  • ChatGPT MCP mode

  • Any MCP-compatible automation or agent

Clean, Modular Architecture

  • search_tools.py

  • read_tools.py

  • ai_tools.py

  • Async Notion client layer with retries + rate-limit handling


Business Value

NotionMCP upgrades Notion from a documentation space into a scalable AI knowledge engine. It enables teams and organizations to operate faster, reduce manual overhead, and make better decisions by turning unstructured notes into actionable intelligence.

For Organizations

  • Automate summarization, research, onboarding, and documentation workflows

  • Improve knowledge accessibility across teams and departments

  • Standardize how information is consumed, summarized, and shared

  • Reduce operational time spent searching or rewriting content

  • Build internal AI agents capable of retrieving, processing, and analyzing company knowledge

For Technical Teams

  • Gain a robust async Notion API client with retry + backoff handling

  • Extend MCP tools with custom AI models or internal logic

  • Integrate Notion into broader AI, analytics, or automation pipelines

  • Build reproducible and automated workflows on top of Notion pages

  • Maintain full control over data by running tools locally

Strategic Outcomes

  • Faster decision-making

  • Reduced cognitive load across technical and non-technical teams

  • Stronger organizational memory and knowledge consistency

  • A foundation for deployable AI assistants operating on real company data


Demo

Video Demo

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Image Walkthrough


Installation

You may install using either:

Option A — Using

1. Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/DeepActionPotential/NotionMCP.git cd NotionMCP

2. Create and activate a virtual environment

python -m venv .venv

Activate it:

Windows

.venv\Scripts\activate

macOS/Linux

source .venv/bin/activate

3. Install dependencies

pip install -r requirements.txt

4. Run the MCP server

python server.py

Option B — Installation using

uv sync uv run server.py

Configuring Claude Desktop

Add the following to:

claude_desktop_config.json

{ "mcpServers": { "NotionMCPServer": { "command": "uv", "args": [ "--directory", "your-own-server-file-directory", "run", "server.py" ] } } }

Restart Claude Desktop. You should now see all Notion tools available under the MCP Tools menu.


Environment Variables

Create a .env file or export environment variables:

NOTION_API_KEY=secret_notion-api HTTP-TIMEOUT=60

Your Notion integration must be shared with the pages or workspace you want to read.


Usage Examples

Ask Claude:

  • “Search Notion for pages about convolution.”

  • “Summarize the Deep Learning page in 200 words.”

  • “Extract the first 20 lines of the Metrics page.”

  • “Analyze the emotional tone of the Vision page.”

Claude will automatically call MCP tools such as:

  • search

  • iter_search

  • get_page_text

  • summarize_page_text

  • get_page_sentiment


Architecture

NotionMCP │ ├── tools/ │ ├── search_tools.py │ ├── read_tools.py │ └── ai_tools.py │ ├── core/ │ └── notion_clients.py │ ├── services/ │ ├── summarization_service.py │ └── text_emotion_service.py │ ├── demo/ │ └── server.py

Contributing

Contributions are welcome:

  • New AI models

  • Additional Notion endpoints

  • Performance improvements

  • New MCP tools

Please open an issue or submit a PR.


License

MIT License — free for commercial and private use.

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