Notion API 101: Programming Your Notion Workspace.
Notion API 101: Programming Your Notion Workspace 💻
Hands-on: Connect Code to Notion and Build Your First Integration
Ready to go beyond templates and start programming Notion? 🚀
Join us for Notion API 101, a practical, hands-on session designed to help you move from building in Notion to building with code on Notion. You’ll learn how to connect your own scripts to your workspace so it can read, write, and update itself automatically.
Whether you want to automate your task tracker, sync data from other apps, build tools for your team, or use Notion as the backend for your own projects, this session will give you the foundation to start programming your workspace.
📅 Date: Saturday, 14th November 2026
⏰ Time: 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM
📍 Venue: Makerere University, COCIS Conference Room, Block A, Level 4
🔗 Register Here: [add new registration link]
🛠️ What to Expect
This isn’t another session where you just sit and watch. You’ll be coding.
During the session, we’ll explore:
🔑 Creating a Notion integration and managing API tokens securely
🔗 Connecting your integration to pages and databases
🗂️ Understanding databases, data sources, and page properties
📥 Reading data from Notion with queries, filters, and sorting
📤 Creating and updating pages from code
🧱 Working with page content and blocks
⚡ Automating repetitive tasks in your workspace
🐍 Building with JavaScript (Node.js) or Python, your choice
🛡️ Handling errors and API limits like a pro
🎯 A live mini challenge: print today’s tasks straight from Notion into your terminal
🤝 Sharing ideas and building alongside other developers
👥 Who Should Attend?
This session is perfect for:
Computer science, software engineering, and IT students
Developers and tech enthusiasts
Students curious about APIs and automation
Builders who want to use Notion as a backend for their projects
Community and student leaders who want to automate their workflows
People who attended Notion 101 or Notion Template Jam and want to go further
Anyone with basic programming knowledge who wants to make Notion work smarter
🎯 What You’ll Walk Away With
By the end of the session, you’ll have more than just new API knowledge. You’ll have a working integration you built yourself.
You’ll be able to:
✨ Create and configure your own Notion integration
✨ Read and query data from Notion databases with code
✨ Add and update pages automatically
✨ Build scripts that automate your everyday workflows
✨ Use the Notion API as a foundation for your own apps and tools
💻 Come Ready to Code!
Bring your laptop with Node.js or Python installed, a code editor like VS Code, and a Notion account. Basic programming knowledge is helpful, and we’ll guide you through every step.
Write code. Automate more. Make Notion work for you. 🚀