Send webhook upon sending or receipt of email

gmail integration webhooks
Ryan-Neal Mes picture Ryan-Neal Mes · May 29, 2014 · Viewed 22.7k times · Source

I have been looking around for how to create a webhook that is triggered when an email is sent or received in Gmail. For example someone sends an email, that email gets POSTed as a JSON object to one of my applications. I have found many middleman applications/services that do this (zapier offers all the functionality I want, but it costs money), but I can't find any documentation on how to actually do this myself so I don't need to pay for it.

Is this possible?

Answer

Ryan-Neal Mes picture Ryan-Neal Mes · Aug 26, 2014

After some research the best solution I could find was to use the gmail API

To achieve the functionality that zapier offers you would have to have a service or something polling google and querying the status of a users in box. There are also a couple of ways to trigger calls to code, but I do not think this is what zapier does. Check the gmail API for more information.

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