Would love to see an open source tool like this for parsing general text / csv / fixedwidth / html in a similar way.
Very nifty concept.
Zapier Email Parser: Extract Text From Automated Emails
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#12Can someone share a use case?
It seems cool for... something.
edit: thanks all, very interesting.
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#13This seems really useful but I can't think of an example usage. Can someone share an example where this is useful?
"Set up receipts@example.com as Google hosted email, automatically parse all Amazon/SaaS subscription/etc emails and update the bookkeeping system" would already save me (or, well, my bookkeeper) 5+ hours a year.
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#14Can someone share a use case? It seems cool for... something . edit: thanks all, very interesting.
One way we've seen it used is to parse out info from receipt emails into a spreadsheet or expense tool.
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#15Can someone share a use case? It seems cool for... something . edit: thanks all, very interesting.
Sure, so whenever someone cancels their Planscope account I send myself an email with their name, email address, LTV, plan, and cancelation reason (this is also stored in my database.)
With this, I could simply CC that email to Zapier, they'll yank out all that info and shove it into a Google Spreadsheet, which will let me do certain things that would be a pain to program myself.
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#16Is it possible to extract repeating patterns? example would be extracting repo name, number of stars, language and project description from GitHub Archive daily digests.
sample mail: http://us5.campaign-archive2.com/?u=439aa16a39e4b10e0b65ff2e...
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#17Re: Zapier Email Parser: Extract Text From Automated Emails
#18Would love to see an open source tool like this for parsing general text / csv / fixedwidth / html in a similar way. Very nifty concept.
I really want to open source the core parsing bit which is based on diff-match-patch but I've got some cleanup to do before... It is probably not hard to reverse engineer what we're doing, it is pretty simple!
Re: Zapier Email Parser: Extract Text From Automated Emails
#19Can someone share a use case? It seems cool for... something . edit: thanks all, very interesting.
Sure, so whenever someone cancels their Planscope account I send myself an email with their name, email address, LTV, plan, and cancelation reason (this is also stored in my database.) With this, I could simply CC that email to Zapier, they'll yank out all that info and shove it into a Google Spreadsheet, which will let me do certain things that would be a pain to program myself.
That's clever! I had never thought to CC/BCC into our parser...
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#20It seems like an awesome feature. Just I don't like the landing page... If patio11 wouldn't have shared on twitter saying how awesome it is, I would have closed without caring too much - just one more thing on The Internet I simply am not bothered with.
The explanation, the first paragraph simply doesn't really give a clear idea on what it does and what's the benefit for me, and, imho a random user is not really motivated to try and figure it out.
I believe a simple nice diagram
[email] -> [zapier] -> [internet]
with some example integrated in it would do a much better job.