Automate Your CRM: Capture Gmail Contacts Instantly
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Seamlessly capture new contacts from your Gmail inbox and store them directly into your MySQL database. This workflow automates the tedious process of manual data entry, ensuring your CRM is always up-to-date.
About This Workflow
This n8n workflow acts as your intelligent email assistant, continuously monitoring your Gmail for incoming messages. Upon detection, it meticulously extracts crucial contact details from both sender and recipient fields, even parsing complex email address formats. The extracted information, along with email subject and a snippet, is then intelligently upserted into your designated MySQL 'contacts' table. This ensures that new leads or contacts are added, and existing ones are updated with the latest relevant data, all without any manual intervention. It's the perfect solution for businesses looking to streamline their lead capture and data management processes.
Key Features
- Real-time Email Monitoring: Automatically fetches new emails from your Gmail account every minute.
- Intelligent Data Extraction: Accurately parses sender and recipient names and email addresses, handling various formats.
- Smart CRM Integration: Upserts contact data into your MySQL database, updating existing records or adding new ones.
- Comprehensive Data Capture: Stores essential details including message ID, thread ID, subject, and a snippet for context.
- Error Handling: Continues processing even if a MySQL insert fails, preventing data loss.
How To Use
- Connect Gmail: Authenticate your Gmail account with n8n using the Gmail Trigger node.
- Configure Email Triggers: Set the Gmail Trigger to check for new emails at your desired frequency (e.g., every minute).
- Set Up MySQL Database: Ensure you have a MySQL database with a 'contacts' table pre-configured with the required columns:
messageId,threadId,snippet,sender_name,sender_email,recipient_name,recipient_email, andsubject. - Configure MySQL Node: In the 'Insert New Client in MySQL' node, select your MySQL credentials and the 'contacts' table. Configure the
operationto 'upsert' and setcolumnToMatchOnto 'messageId' to prevent duplicate entries. - Map Data: Map the output fields from the 'Get Client Name and Email' node and the Gmail Trigger node to the corresponding columns in your MySQL table within the 'valuesToSend' parameter of the MySQL node.
- Activate Workflow: Save and activate your n8n workflow to start automatically capturing and storing your email contacts.
Apps Used
Workflow JSON
{
"id": "86687290-b65a-4dcb-9e2a-8f582f1f7397",
"name": "Automate Your CRM: Capture Gmail Contacts Instantly",
"nodes": 9,
"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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