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Gmail and Slack integration

Save yourself the work of writing custom integrations for Gmail and Slack and use n8n instead. Build adaptable and scalable Communication, HITL, workflows that work with your technology stack. All within a building experience you will love.

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How to connect Gmail and Slack

Create a new workflow and add the first step

In n8n, click the "Add workflow" button in the Workflows tab to create a new workflow. Add the starting point – a trigger on when your workflow should run: an app event, a schedule, a webhook call, another workflow, an AI chat, or a manual trigger. Sometimes, the HTTP Request node might already serve as your starting point.

Gmail and Slack integration: Create a new workflow and add the first step

Host your own uptime monitoring with scheduled triggers

This n8n workflow demonstrates how to build a simple uptime monitoring service using scheduled triggers. Useful for webmasters with a handful of sites who want a cost-effective solution without the need for all the bells and whistles. How it works Scheduled trigger reads a list of website urls in a Google Sheet every 5 minutes Each website url is checked using the HTTP node which determines if the website is either in the UP or DOWN state. An email and Slack message are sent for websites which are in the DOWN state. The Google Sheet is updated with the website's state and a log created. Logs can be used to determine total % of UP and DOWN time over a period. Requirements Google Sheet for storing websites to monitor and their states Gmail for email alerts Slack for channel alerts Customising the workflow Don't use Google Sheets? This can easily be exchanged with Excel or Airtable.

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Build your own Gmail and Slack integration

Create custom Gmail and Slack workflows by choosing triggers and actions. Nodes come with global operations and settings, as well as app-specific parameters that can be configured. You can also use the HTTP Request node to query data from any app or service with a REST API.

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Gmail and Slack integration details

Gmail

Gmail

Gmail is a free of charge email service offered as part of Google Workspace. It is used by individuals and organizations to send and receive emails and communicate internally and externally. It remains the world’s most widely used email service.

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Slack

Slack

Slack is a powerful collaboration tool for businesses of all sizes. It brings team communication and collaboration into one place so you can get more work done, whether you belong to a large enterprise or a small business.

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  • jake chard

    How do I remove n8n Email footer in Gmail node send message?

    jake chard

    Each email sent has “This email was sent automatically with n8n” in the footer or after the email. How do I remove this please?

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  • Jan Koch

    Sending attachment via Gmail

    Jan Koch

    Describe the problem/error/question I am trying to send an email with an attachment using the Gmail node and get an error that I don’t understand. I am able to download that file from the original email and upload it to …

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  • FawenYo

    Failed to send Gmail attachment

    FawenYo

    Describe the problem/error/question I’m trying to send an HTML file in the Gmail attachment, but it just raise an error. This question is similar to Sending attachment via Gmail , but I just couldn’t get it work …

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  • Jean-Pierre GARNIER

    Gmail node subject text encoding issue

    Jean-Pierre GARNIER

    Describe the problem/error/question Hi, I’m facing an encoding problem while sending email with gmail node for every char with and accent (é,à,ô,î…). I noticed that this problem doesn’t occurs when i’m directly writing …

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  • Anirudh Tugawe

    Update Google Sheets After sending Email

    Anirudh Tugawe

    Hi everyone, I’m working on a workflow where I’m using Google Sheets to get input data. I have a loop set up that correctly reads the data and processes it: it takes a Word document template, app…

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Why use n8n to integrate Gmail with Slack

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