Automate Emailing Images with Gmail and n8n
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Effortlessly send emails with embedded images directly from your Gmail account using n8n's powerful automation capabilities. This workflow streamlines the process of including visuals in your communications.
About This Workflow
This n8n workflow demonstrates a powerful way to automate sending emails with embedded images directly through your Gmail account. It starts with a manual trigger, allowing you to initiate the process on demand. The workflow then fetches an image from a specified URL, converts it into a base64 format suitable for email embedding, and meticulously constructs a multipart MIME email. This includes both HTML content for rich formatting and the embedded image referenced via cid:image1. Finally, it securely sends the composed email using the Gmail API, authenticated via OAuth2. This is ideal for marketing campaigns, personalized customer communications, or any scenario requiring visually rich automated emails.
Key Features
- Automated Image Fetching: Dynamically retrieves images from any URL.
- Seamless Image Embedding: Integrates images directly into the HTML body of your emails using Content-ID.
- Gmail API Integration: Leverages the official Gmail API for reliable and secure email sending.
- Customizable Email Content: Easily define sender, recipient, subject, and HTML body for personalized messages.
- Base64 Encoding: Handles the necessary encoding for embedding binary image data into emails.
How To Use
- Set Up Gmail Credentials: In the 'Send message' node, configure your Gmail OAuth2 credentials.
- Define Message Details: Update the 'Message settings' node with your desired sender email, recipient email, subject, and HTML body. Ensure your HTML includes
<img src='cid:image1'>where you want the image to appear. - Specify Image Source: In the 'Get image' node, replace the provided URL with the URL of the image you wish to embed.
- Test Workflow: Click the 'Test workflow' button (manual trigger) to execute the automation and send a test email.
Apps Used
Workflow JSON
{
"id": "bde57ab4-f5cc-4471-8ab8-e16c58e51bea",
"name": "Automate Emailing Images with Gmail and n8n",
"nodes": 18,
"category": "Marketing",
"status": "active",
"version": "1.0.0"
}Note: This is a sample preview. The full workflow JSON contains node configurations, credentials placeholders, and execution logic.
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