notion-translations
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A tool that allows you to use notion databases as the backend for i18n dictionaries.
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notion-translations
A tool that allows you to use notion databases as the backend for i18n dictionaries.
Supported formats
- I18next
- Android string xml resource
- C# compatible .resx
Installation
It can either be installed globally with npm i -g
, run with npx
, or installed in a npm project using the package manager of your choice.
Using npm
(recommended as a dev dependency):
npm i -d notion-translations
How to use
Get a notion api key by navigating to my integrations and create a new integration.
Then navigate to capabilities
and adjust the permissions given to the extension. The following permissions are required to use specific commands of this tool (if a command is not listed, it does not talk with the notion api):
action | Read | Write | Insert | - | - | - | - | | local add | [x] | [ ] | [ ] | | local sync | [x] | [ ] | [ ] | | remote new | [x] | [ ] | [x] | | remote normalize | [x] | [x] | [x] | | remote import | [x] | [x] | [x] | | gen | [x] | [ ] | [ ] |
Copy the integration API key and pass it into the tool as the environment variable NOTION_TOKEN
(supports dotenv, so you can save the api key in a .env file).
Setup
Run the translations init
to create a new notion-translate.json
(change the output directory with --out <directory>
).
Add the desired databases with translations local add
.
Import (optional)
You can import existing translation files into your notion databases using translations remote import [options]
Generate translation files
After you have added the desired databases to the local config, and created the desired translations in notion, you can fetch the databases and generate files of the desired format, run translations gen [options]
Database layout
This script makes a few assumptions about the layout of the notion databases.
- The title column is expected to be called
key
, but this is not required. - All non-
text
columns will be ignored by the script (though I would like to make it possible to add filters in the future). - There will be generated a language file for each
text
column in the databases (the databases will be merged into one file per unique column), where the name of the column will be used as the generated "language".- Would like to be able to exclude specific columns in the future.
Roadmap
A few things I would like to add
- Handle duplicate keys when generating.
- Currently throws a
notImplementedYet
error if a duplicate key is found
- Currently throws a
- Configure the output file name (it's currently only possible to set the output directory).
- Set a filter based on columns of each database.
- This could fx. be used to ignore specific
text
columns or ignore rows with a checkbox set.
- This could fx. be used to ignore specific
- Add a new language to all databases associated with script.