Notion page in Knowledgebase

I think this has been mentioned before, but I’m not certain it was definitively answered.

I would like to keep a series of Notion pages in my Notion database, and link them to my Pickaxe Knowledgebase, and then assign those pages to various Pickaxes. The optimal goal being that when a Notion page gets updated, all the Pickaxes using that particular page get the updated version at the same time.

I created a basic text page in Notion, made it live on the web (Your connected workspace for wiki, docs & projects | Notion), and linked it to a Pickaxe via the knowledgebase.

The Pickaxe has one instruction, which is to read from the knowledgebase and regurgitate the info within, but it’s not working.

Is a published Notion page not viable for a knowledgebase entry?

Hi Jim

What code are you using in an action to connect to Notion ?

Hi ihmunro

I’m not using an action to connect to Notion, I’m adding a Notion link to the knowledge base.


Thanks Jim

So, a URL?

The V1 version allowed you to do updates on URL, like never, weekly etc, but I don’t see that option any more, so do not know what the default is.

Will need some input from Mike on this one.

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it’s coming by summer as per this post: No Webpage Refresh in V2 😭 - #3 by averysmith

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Perfect - good to hear.

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Thanks both - I think that this is an adjacent issue, but I can see how it is related to the refresh issue between v1 and v2.

My issue is not so much about webpage refresh, but about the capability of using a Notion page as a knowledge base source at all.

It’s not loading any information from the Notion page after it’s added. So the question remains: are Notion pages (in particular) recognisable by the Pickaxe system as an accepted Knowledgebase source?

Do you have a notion page I can try linking to ?

Sure - Your connected workspace for wiki, docs & projects | Notion

Web scrapers generally don’t work well with Notion pages. If you’re uploading a Notion URL, you can click on the uploaded item in the Knowledge Base to check what was actually extracted.

In your case, it looks like the page only produced one chunk, which usually means the scraper didn’t find any usable content. Clicking on the file in the Knowledge Base will show you exactly what, if anything, was pulled from the page.

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Great, thanks for the clarification Mike. :+1:

Hi Jim

I think Mike is correct as I could not even get it to connect for scraping.

Short term to make it would would be to create a PDF of the page.