Notion MCP Server runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 4 674 installs a week from npm. Last commit 26 Oct 2026.
Token-auth Notion MCP: pages, databases, blocks, comments, files. Runs headless in CI and agents.
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This server runs on your own machine — install it with the package manager and the client starts it for you. Package name taken from the official registry entry.
claude mcp add notion-mcp-server -e 'NOTION_TOKEN=<NOTION_TOKEN>' -- npx -y notion-mcp-server{
"mcpServers": {
"notion-mcp-server": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"notion-mcp-server"
],
"env": {
"NOTION_TOKEN": "<NOTION_TOKEN>"
}
}
}
}[mcp_servers.notion-mcp-server]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "notion-mcp-server"]
env = { NOTION_TOKEN = "<NOTION_TOKEN>" }{
"mcpServers": {
"notion-mcp-server": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"notion-mcp-server"
],
"env": {
"NOTION_TOKEN": "<NOTION_TOKEN>"
}
}
}
}{
"servers": {
"notion-mcp-server": {
"type": "stdio",
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"notion-mcp-server"
],
"env": {
"NOTION_TOKEN": "<NOTION_TOKEN>"
}
}
}
}Put your own value in place of
<NOTION_TOKEN> (Notion Personal Access Token (ntn_...) or Internal Integration Secret. Create at https://app.notion.com/developers/tokens).
The author’s registry entry marks it as required.
Optional settings from the registry entry, left out of the block above:
NOTION_PAGE_ID (Optional default parent page ID used by create_page / create_database when no parent is passed).
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