Notion API, select all pages with a specific emoji

Here’s something I used to select all subpages of a Notion page that used a specific emoji icon:

import { Client } from '@notionhq/client'

const notion = new Client({ auth: process.env.NOTION_API_KEY })

async function getChildPages(pageId) {
  const pages = []
  let cursor

  do {
    const response = await notion.blocks.children.list({
      block_id: pageId,
      start_cursor: cursor,
      page_size: 100
    })

    for (const block of response.results) {
      if (block.type !== 'child_page') continue

      const page = await notion.pages.retrieve({
        page_id: block.id
      })

      pages.push(page)
    }

    cursor = response.next_cursor ?? undefined
  } while (cursor)

  return pages
}

const pages = await getChildPages(process.env.NOTION_PAGE_ID)

const matchingPages = pages.filter((page) => {
  return page.icon?.type === 'emoji' && page.icon.emoji === '✅'
})

The child block tells you that the item is a page, but it does not include the page icon. That is why the code retrieves each matching page separately.

This simple version makes those requests one at a time. For a large tree, add limited concurrency and retry handling instead of sending every request at once.

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