# notion-mcp-server MCP Server

Token-auth Notion MCP: pages, databases, blocks, comments, files. Runs headless in CI and agents.

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## Status

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## Connect

Published as `notion-mcp-server` on npm. Runs locally.

## Known issues

**6 problems reported by people outside the maintainer team.** Issues filed by the project's own owners, members and collaborators are excluded — those are release checklists and internal refactors, not things that will go wrong for you. Showing 5.

### Most discussed

### Thanks! (and a collection of fixes)

Hey! Thanks for the MCP server, especially the atomicity, response slimming, and markdown-first support everywhere.

I've run this on my own test case and identified a bunch of issues, from minor usability (S3 URLs #50) to security (file upload from anywhere #51). I've had my Claude submit each fix as a minimal PR with tests, but I'm QCing them and hand-writing the PR description before releasing them as ready.

Let me know if there's anything I can do to help with these.

[Read the thread](https://github.com/awkoy/notion-mcp-server/issues/54) · 2026-07-29 · open · outside contributor · 2 comments

### Feature Request: View-based database querying

Thanks for building this MCP and making it free and open sourced! The typed `where` DSL and batch operation support already make it the best Notion MCP server I've tried, not to mention other cool features.

One gap I'm running into: **database views**. Currently the server handles pages and databases well, but views are not really supported.

### Proposed operations

1. **Query a view's data rows by its id** — execute a view's filters/sorts/groupings and return the resulting rows.
2. **CRUD on 

[Read the thread](https://github.com/awkoy/notion-mcp-server/issues/18) · 2026-06-20 · closed · outside contributor · 1 comment

### Configure allowlisted operations

Hi! Would it be possible to add an operation allowlist in this project? It'd be pretty useful IMO

Something like a env `NOTION_ALLOWED_OPERATIONS` with comma-separated operations would be enough

[Read the thread](https://github.com/awkoy/notion-mcp-server/issues/7) · 2026-06-03 · closed · external user · 3 comments

### archive_page and restore_page use deprecated archived field instead of in_trash

## Summary

`notion_pages` actions `archive_page` and `restore_page` currently call `notion.pages.update()` with the deprecated `archived` request body field.

With newer Notion API versions, this fails with a validation error because Notion now expects `in_trash` instead.

## Current behavior

Calling `archive_page` with a valid page ID returns a Notion validation error similar to:

```text
Error: The request body does not match the schema for the expected parameters (validation_error)
```

The

[Read the thread](https://github.com/awkoy/notion-mcp-server/issues/6) · 2026-05-19 · closed · external user · 0 comments

### Unexpected token 'o', "notion-mcp-"... is not valid JSON

2025-05-06T23:07:34.079Z [notion-mcp-server] [error] Unexpected token 'o', "notion-mcp-"... is not valid JSON {"context":"connection","stack":"SyntaxError: Unexpected token 'o', \"notion-mcp-\"... is not valid JSON\n    at JSON.parse (<anonymous>)\n    at F$e (C:\\Users\\ivan\\AppData\\Local\\AnthropicClaude\\app-0.9.3\\resources\\app.asar\\.vite\\build\\index.js:108:189)\n    at j$e.readMessage (C:\\Users\\ivan\\AppData\\Local\\AnthropicClaude\\app-0.9.3\\resources\\app.asar\\.vite\\build\\inde

[Read the thread](https://github.com/awkoy/notion-mcp-server/issues/2) · 2025-05-06 · closed · external user · 2 comments

[See all 6 reports Pod holds for notion-mcp-server](/mcp/notion-mcp-server/issues).

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