vacat / arxiv2notion

Chrome extension for clipping arXiv articles to Notion.

arxiv2notion

Easy-to-use arXiv clipper for Notion based on Notion API

Getting Started

• login to notion.so by admin user
• create databases where you save arXiv articles
  • follow this instruction https://www.notion.so/guides/creating-a-database , do NOT create a new database by /database !
  • add properties listed below. Title URL Publisher Authors Abstract
  • note that you should create extactly the same properties with listed names.

property	type
Title	Title
URL	URL
Publisher	Select
Authors	Text
Abstract	Text

• follow the instruction of Notion API
  • navigate to My Integrations
  • + New integration
  • associated workspace: select your workspace where you save arXiv articles
• invite the integration to target databases via Share -> Invite

Installation

• download extension package from https://github.com/denkiwakame/arxiv2notion/releases
• for Chrome, navigate to chrome://extension
  • drag and drop the extension from your file manager anywhere onto the extensions page
  • or unzip the extension and load unpacked in developer mode

Setup

• right-click on the extension icon > Options
  • copy integration id (not the secret token!) (see figures below) from https://www.notion.so/my-integrations/internal/${integration-id}
  • paste the integration id and click on + button.
  • if your entered id is valid, you can see the following callback messages.

In order to avoid storing Notion API key directoly onto chrome local storage,
arxiv2notion requests API token on-demand via integration ID when you are logged in.
Note that you must be logged in to notion.so when you use this extension.

Build locally (for Developers)

$ git clone https://github.com/denkiwakame/arxiv2notion.git
$ npm install
$ npm run build
$ npm run watch # debug locally
$ npm run pack  # packaging to zip