Published 2 months ago
This enables webhooks for nearly realtime updates (every 5 seconds) from Notion Databases.
Notion does not offer webhooks. Even worse, the “Last edited time” property, we could use for polling, only updates every minute. This gives us a polling interval only as low as 2 minutes and we still need to implement a comparing mechanism to detect changes.
This workflow caches states in between while doing efficient polling & comparing. It brings down the update latency from 2 minutes to 5 seconds and also provides the output of the changes only.
[
{
"action": "changed",
"changes": {
"property_modified_at": "2024-06-04T17:59:00.000Z",
"property_priority": "important"
},
"data": {
"id": "ba761e03-7d6d-44c2-8e8d-c8a4fb930d0f",
"name": "Try out n8n",
"url": "https://www.notion.so/Try-out-n8n-ba761e037d6d44c28e8dc8a4fb930d0f",
"property_todoist_id": "",
"property_id": "ba761e037d6d44c28e8dc8a4fb930d0f",
"property_modified_at": "2024-06-04T17:59:00.000Z",
"property_status": "Backlog",
"property_priority": "important",
"property_due": {
"start": "2024-06-05",
"end": null,
"time_zone": null
},
"property_focus": false,
"property_name": "Try out n8n"
},
"updated_at": "2024-06-04T17:59:42.144+00:00"
}
]