How to get started with Notion on Zapier

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Updated at August 20th, 2025

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Prerequisites Connect Notion to Zapier About Notion's app Triggers, searches, and actions Limitations Templates Use cases Additional Notion resources

Notion and Zapier connect to automate your work. You can trigger actions when new database items are added and create new items in databases or pages.

Prerequisites

To use the Notion app on Zapier, you must have:

An active Notion account (free or paid plan).
You need to be a Notion admin to the pages or databses you want to connect to.
You need to grant Zapier access to your pages or databases. If you create new ones after connecting to your Notion account and want to interact with them in your Zaps, you'll need to grant Zapier permission in your Notion account.

Connect Notion to Zapier

To create an app connection to Notion on Zapier:

Go to the Apps page.
Click + Add connection.
A new dialog box will appear. Search for and select Notion.
Click Add connection.
A new browser tab or window will open.
Log into Notion to authenticate.
Grant Zapier permission to access your account if prompted to.

Your Notion account is now successfully connected to Zapier.

About Notion's app

Triggers, searches, and actions

Triggers

New Database Item (Polling) - Triggers when a new item is created in a database.
Updated Database Item (Polling) - Triggers when an item in a selected database is updated.
New Comment (Instant) - Triggers when a new comment is created in your Notion workspace.
Updated Page (Polling) - Triggers when a Page is updated.

Searches

Get Page Comments - Retrieves comments from a Page.
Get Block Children - Retrieves child blocks of a parent block or page with support for pagination.
Find Page (By Title) - Searches for a page by title.
Get User Details - Retrieves user information by ID.
Retrieve Block Children - Retrieves the children of a block, with any text content rendered as Markdown.
Find Database Items - Searches for items in a database by its properties.
Get Page and Children - Retrieves a page by its ID and all of its block children.
Get Page Property - Retrieves a specific property value from a Notion page.
Find or Create Database Item - Searches for a Database Item matching the provided query, or creates one if it does not exist.

Actions

Archive Database Item - Soft deletes an item in a database.
Create Database Item - Creates an item in a database.
Move Page - Moves a page to a different parent within the workspace hierarchy.
Restore Database Item - Restores a database item which was previously archived.
API Request (Beta) - This is an advanced action which makes a raw HTTP request that includes this integration's authentication.
Retrieve a Page - This action retrieves a specific page from Notion using its ID. The page id can be a normal page or a database item.
Add Comment - Adds a new comment to a Page.
Create Page - Creates a Page inside a parent page.
Add Content to Page - Adds Content to a Page.
Update Database Item - Updates a database item.
Retrieve Database - This action retrieves a database in Notion using the ID of the database.

Limitations

Zapier trigger and actions do not support the following property types:
- Files and media
- Formula
- Relation
- Rollup
- Status
Character limits apply with each block limited to 2,000 characters due to Notion's API restrictions.
Rate limiting applies with an average of three requests per second per integration.
Multi-select property updates overwrite existing values instead of appending to them.
Content from page blocks is not included in New Database Item triggers or Find Database Item actions. Let us know in this Community thread if you want to be notified when this is available.
Updates to page content do not trigger New Database Item triggers. Let us know in this Community thread if you want to be notified when this is available.
New pages require explicit permission grants in Notion even if full access was initially provided.
Notion expects date fields to be formatted as YYYY-MM-DD (ISO 8601).

Templates

View all of Notion's templates.

How to get started with Notion on Zapier

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Prerequisites

Connect Notion to Zapier

About Notion's app

Triggers, searches, and actions

Limitations

Templates

Use cases

Additional Notion resources

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