Automatically send parsed information to your task or project management app, set up custom notifications, create calendar events, update contacts, and more.Įmail's the default way for most apps to send notifications and other info-and can be the best way to automate apps that don't have their integrations.
Now that you're parsing your email, learn more ways you can automate that information and put it to work in other apps. Every time Deb at Zapier sends you the latest Zapier newsletter-or whenever you receive whatever other email messages you want to parse-Gmail will send it along to the Email Parser. Have that filter forward the email to the email parser address you just added-and you should be all set.Īfter a bit of mouse and keyboard exercise, you're done. Click the tiny down arrow on the right of the search bar to see the full Advanced Search options-then click the Create filter button or link in the lower right corner. First search for the email address and/or subject of the messages you'll have the email parser process I'll enter AND "Recommended reading from the Zapier blog team". Now you can have Gmail automatically forward emails to your email parser. Either way, copy the confirmation code, then paste it in the box back in your Gmail Forwarding settings. If you don't see it, check the Email Parser app's mailbox-it should have the email. Open your Gmail Forwarding settings-click the gear icon, select Settings, then click the Forwarding tab.Ĭlick the Add a forwarding address button there.Įnter your Email Parser email in the text box and click next.Ĭheck your email-Zapier should send you a confirmation email from Gmail. To watch for those emails in Gmail, you'll first need to add your email parser address to Gmail to automatically forward emails. For my example, those emails come from and contain the words "Recommended reading from the Zapier blog team." Typically, your notification emails will all have something in common-they come from the same sender and often have the same subject. The best option is to automate things with a filter in your email app to automatically forward messages that match the one you sent to Email Parser. We need to send every new newsletter to the email parser.
The Email Parser you made is now ready to copy text from other similar emails-the Zapier Blog newsletter, in this case. If you use another email parsing tool, these directions will still apply-the basics work the same in every app, and once you know how to parse one email, you know how to parse them all. We'll use Zapier's Email Parser-a free tool to copy text out of your emails. Let's back up, and step-by-step build an email parser that can copy text out of your emails and put it to work. As long as the emails are all laid out generally the same way, the email parser should be able to figure out what's important and copy the data for you. Then, connect the email parser to an automation tool like Zapier to save that important text into other apps so you can log the orders in a spreadsheet, for example, or be reminded to pay your credit card bill tomorrow. You teach these programs how to recognize patterns in your emails, tell them what data is actually important and that everything else can be ignored, and then have them save only the important stuff. Your eyes quickly dart across the screen, picking out keywords and phrases like New Sale and $4.99 and Payment Due: Friday, Nov 3.Įmail parsers work the same way. The rest of the time, odds are, you skim the message. When your boss or best friend emails, you likely read every word.