Notion-GCal-Sync

Notion-GCal-Sync is a python application to bidirectional synchronize calendar events within notion and google calendar.

Getting started

1. Install package from PyPi

   pip install notion-gcal-sync
   

2. Get your Google Calendar credentials.json like this

3. Get your Notion Token like this

4. Set up the Notion page like this

5. Create config folder ~/.notion-gcal-sync and copy the credentials.json inside

   Linux (or WSL)

   cp ~/Downloads/client_secret_*.apps.googleusercontent.com.json "~/.notion-gcal-sync/client_secret.json"
   

   Windows Copy your client_secret_*.apps.googleusercontent.com.json as client_secret.json inside C:\Users\dude\.notion-gcal-sync

   # TODO
   

6. Run the script and fill out the prompts. If not sure skip the optional bits.

   1. Make sure you get your timezone right
      1. Use your TZ database name as timezone_name
      2. Use the UTC DST offset as timezone_diff
   2. google_mail: Your mail you are using in google calendar want to have synced
   3. notion_database_url The url for the page you set up in 4.
   4. notion_token: The token you set up in 3.

   notion-gcal-sync
   
   2021-10-28 19:55:41,198 [INFO] /home/worker/.notion-gcal-sync/config.yml does not exist
   Create non-existing /home/worker/.notion-gcal-sync/config.yml? [Y/n]: y
   2021-10-28 19:55:42,630 [INFO] Configuring /home/worker/.notion-gcal-sync/config.yml
   default_event_length [60]:
   no_date_action [skip]:
   timezone_name [Europe/Berlin]:
   timezone_diff [+02:00]:
   google_mail (e.g name@gmail.com): cooldude@gmail.com
   notion_database_url [https://www.notion.so/***?v=***&p=]:
   notion_token: secret_ASDFASDFCASDF
   

7. It will prompt you to authenticate yourself for google. This will create a token.json.

   $ notion-gcal-sync
   ...
   Please visit this URL to authorize this application:
   https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/auth?response_type=code&client_id=***
   

For more information follow these instructions.

Usage

Make sure you followed the setup and configured the config.yml with your notion token and page for Notion API and gathered and setup credentials client_secret.json for Google Calendar API.

notion-gcal-sync

Docker

To run inside the container you need to add the volume at ~/.notion-gcal-sync

docker run -v ~/.notion-gcal-sync:/home/worker/.notion-gcal-sync notion-gcal-sync

If you want to update the setup within the cli or only map the credentials, you'll need to add interactive mode -it and for authenticating a new token you'll also need --net=host

docker run --net=host -it \
     -v ~/.notion-gcal-sync/client_secret.json:/home/worker/notion-gcal-sync/client_secret.json \
     notion-gcal-sync

If you do not want to mount, build it yourself with your credentials.

FROM ghrc.io/ravio1i/notion-gcal-sync
COPY token.json /home/worker/token.json
COPY config.yml /home/worker/config.json

Notes

BE AWARE OF THE FOLLOWING:

• This sync will update your source links in gcal. Links to mail etc. will get overwritten with a link to the notion page. The original links will be put on top of the description
• This sync will update all your invites from other calendars not specified to your default calendar. There is a button on gcal to restore back
• Goals defined from calendar apps are skipped.
• Recurrent original events are skipped. Recurrent occurrences of events are created one by one in notion. Changing in notion will change only an occurrence in GCal.

With around ~2500 events in gcal the sync:

• to get all events took ~1min

Known Limitations

• The Last update of an event of notion and google calendar are checked on minute base. When changing an event more then once within a minute and syncing right away