Notion automated summarization

Introduction

This is a simple docker container that will automatically summarize any content on a page in Notion. It works by retrieving all the pages in a database have not been added for X days and don't have any content in the Summary field. It then sends the content of the page to the OpenAI API. This will use machine learning to automatically summarize the content. The content will the be entered in the Summary field.

Prerequisites

1. An account at OpenAI.
2. An API key for OpenAI that can be retrieved here.
3. An account at Notion.
4. An integration and API key for Notion. Instructions can be found here.
5. An environment with docker installed.

Installation

Installation and running this scripts can be done through either Docker or Docker Compose.

Docker example

docker run --name some-name-for-your-container -e NOTION_TOKEN=secret_12345678 -e DATABASE_ID=d82973h2kwldj20239e1 -e OPEN_AI_TOKEN=sk-nd92e2109js09219udj9101oj1290 SUMMARIZATION_FIELD=Summary DAYS_BEFORE_SUMMARY=7 RUN_FREQUENCY=15 michielvanbeers/notion-auto-summarize

Docker compose example

version: '3'

services:
  notion-auto-summarize:
    image: michielvanbeers/notion-auto-summarize
    restart: unless-stopped
    environment:
      - NOTION_TOKEN=secret_12345678
      - DATABASE_ID=d82973h2kwldj20239e1
      - OPEN_AI_TOKEN=sk-nd92e2109js09219udj9101oj1290
      - SUMMARIZATION_FIELD=Summary
      - DAYS_BEFORE_SUMMARY=7
      - RUN_FREQUENCY=15 # Optional

Environment variables

• NOTION_TOKEN: API token to integrate with Notion. Don't forget to allow your intergration access to your database
• DATABASE_ID: ID of the database that you want to scan
• OPEN_AI_TOKEN: API token to allow communication with OpenAI
• SUMMARIZATION_FIELD: Field where the summary of the page will be written to
• DAYS_BEFORE_SUMMARY: The amount of days that need to have passed before the summary of the article is created
• RUN_FREQUENCY: Determines after how many minutes a new scan is done (in minutes)

Development

This repository contains a VSCode Devcontainer. To make use of this, make sure to install the VSCode Devcontainer extension and then:

1. Click on the button below: OR
2. Clone into the repository, open in VSCode and click 'Reopen in Container'.