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# Loconotion
**Loconotion** is a Python script that parses a [Notion.so](https://notion.so) public page (alongside with all of its subpages) and generates a lightweight, customizable static site out of it.
**Loconotion** is a Python script that parses a [Notion.so](https://notion.so) public page (alongside all of its subpages) and generates a lightweight, customizable static site.
## But Why?
[Notion](https://notion.so) is a web app where you can create your own workspace / perosnal wiki out of content blocks. It feels good to use, and the results look very pretty - the developers did a great job. Given that it also offers the possibility of making a page (and its sub-pagse) public on the web, several people choose to use Notion to manage their personal blog, portfolio, or some kind of simple website. Sadly Notion does not support custom domains: your public pages are stuck in the `notion.so` domain, under long computer-generated URLs.
[Notion](https://notion.so) is a web app where you can create your workspace / personal wiki out of content blocks. It feels good to use, and the results look very pretty - the developers did a great job. Given that it also offers the possibility of making a page (and its sub-pages) public on the web, several people choose to use Notion to manage their personal blog, portfolio, or some simple website. Sadly Notion does not support custom domains: your public pages are stuck in the `notion.so` domain, under long computer-generated URLs.
Some services like Super, HostingPotion, HostNotion and Fruition try to work around this issue by relying on a [clever hack](https://gist.github.com/mayneyao/b9fefc9625b76f70488e5d8c2a99315d) using CloudFlare workers. This solution, however, has some disadvantages:
- **Not free** - Super, HostingPotion and HostNotion all take a monthly fee since they manage all the "hacky bits" for you; Fruition is open-source but any domain with a decent amount of daily visit will soon clash against CloudFlare's free tier limitations, and force you to upgrade to the 5$ or more plan (plus you need to setup Cloudflare yourself)
- **Not free** - Super, HostingPotion and HostNotion all take a monthly fee since they manage all the "hacky bits" for you; Fruition is open-source, but any domain with a decent amount of daily visits will soon clash against CloudFlare's free tier limitations, and force you to upgrade to the 5$ or more plan (plus you need to setup Cloudflare yourself)
- **Slow-ish** - As the page is still hosted on Notion, it comes bundled with all their analytics, editing / collaboration javascript, vendors css, and more bloat which causes the page to load at speeds that are not exactly appropriate for a simple blog / website. Running [example page](https://www.notion.so/The-perfect-It-s-Always-Sunny-in-Philadelphia-episode-d08aaec2b24946408e8be0e9f2ae857e) on Google's [PageSpeed Insights](https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/) scores a measly **24 - 66** on mobile / desktop.
- **Ugly URLs** - While the services above enable the use of custom domains, the URLs for individual pages are stuck with the long, ugly, original Notion URL (apart from Fruition - they got custom URLs figured out, altough you will always see the original URL flashing for an instant when the page is loaded).
- **Ugly URLs** - While the services above enable the use of custom domains, the URLs for individual pages are stuck with the long, ugly, original Notion URL (apart from Fruition - they got custom URLs figured out, although you will always see the original URL flashing for an instant when the page is loaded).
- **Notion Free Account Limitations** - Recently Notion introduced a change to its pricing model where public pages can't be set to be indexed by search engines on a free account (but they also removed the blocks count limitations, which is a good trade-off if you ask me)
**Loconotion** approaches this a bit differently. It lets Notion render the page, then scrapes it and saves a static version of the page to disk. This offers the following benefits:
- Strips out all the unnecessary bloat, like Notion's analytics, vendors scripts / styles, and javascript left in to enable collaboration.
- Caches all images / assets / fonts (hashing filenames), while keeping links intact.
- Cleans up the pages urls, letting you use custom slugs if desired
- Full meta tags controls, for the whole site or individual pages
- Cleans up the page urls, letting you use custom slugs if desired
- Full meta tags controls for the whole site or individual pages
- Granular custom Goggle Fonts control on headings, navbar, body and code blocks
- Lets you inject any custom style or script, from custom analytics or real-time chat support to hidden crypto miners (please don't do that)
- Outputs static files ready to be deployed on Netlify, GitHub Pages, Vercel, your Raspberry PI, that cheap second-hand Thinkpad you're using as a random server - you name it.
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Bear in mind that as we are effectively parsing a static version of the page, there are some limitations compared to Notion's live public pages:
- All pages will open in their own page and not modals (depending on how you look at it this could be a plus)
- All pages will open on their own page and not modals (depending on how you look at it this could be a plus)
- Databases will be presented in their initial view - for example, no switching views from table to gallery and such
- All editing features will be disabled - no ticking checkboxes or dragging kanban boards cards around. Usually not an issue since a public page to serve as a website would have changes locked.
- Dynamic elements won't update automatically - for example, the calendar will not highlight the current date.
Everything else should be fine. Loconotion re-implements the logic on client side for the following dynamic elements so they still work:
Everything else should be fine. Loconotion re-implements the logic on the client side for the following dynamic elements, so they still work:
- Toggle blocks (nested ones too!)
- Anchor links
- Embeds
- Name column on tables become a link to the page of the database item in that row
- Name column on tables becomes a link to the page of the database item in that row
On top of that, it defines some additional CSS rules to enable mobile responsiveness across the whole site (in some cases looking even better than Notion's defaults - wasn't exactly thought for mobile).
On top of that, it defines some additional CSS rules to enable mobile responsiveness across the whole site (in some cases, looking even better than Notion's defaults - it wasn't exactly thought for mobile).
### But Notion already had an html export function?