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I am trying to build a Zap that will take an email I receive and get the zoom link from the email and add it to the locations field in my Google Calendar event. The website that hosts these events is Wix so all the events are sent with text that says to Join the Meeting but Zoom doesn’t recognize these as they aren’t the typical https://us06web.zoom.us/abunchofnumbers links. The link is some wix.com link that redirects to the zoom link.

 

Example Wix link:

http://links.wixevents.com/abunchofrandomstuff

 

I am hoping someone here can help me build my zap.

 

Thanks!

Hi @JLHSolutions 

Resources for email parsing:

 


Hi Troy,

 

Thank you for a response. I was able to setup mailparser.io and get it to extract the Wix Event link. So I have that part working. Now I am struggling to take that link and find the redirect url. I tried ChatGPT but I can’t figure out how to do that. I did find some websites that allow you to do this, but unfortunately now of them have APIs or are setup to work with Zapier.

 

I did find this one site https://siterelic.com/redirectchecker that shows it has an API. I signed up to get my API Key but I cannot get the Webhooks by Zapier to work. I keep getting different error messages. 

 

So I set up Webhooks to use the POST event. In my action tab, I have the following fields set. Maybe you can see something I did wrong.

URL: https://api.siterelic.com/redirectcheck

Payload: raw

Data: this is pulling my link from the mailparser.io trigger

Wrap Request in Array: No

Headers:

x-api-key

and then my api key on the 2nd line.

 

I have gotten 403, 500, 400 errors. This is my first experience with Zapier and using APIs, so I do not know much.

 

Any assistance you can provide me, I would greatly appreciate it.

 

Thanks!


Hi there @JLHSolutions,

Just to be upfront, Webhooks by Zapier is an advanced feature, so our support for it may be more limited. It's not because we don't want to help, but APIs can be very different, and each request can be unique. This makes it difficult for us to know why a request may be receiving errors or not working as expected.

In case I am not able to answer any of your questions, the Zapier Community’s Code & Webhooks category might be the best place to ask for help or you can reach out to one of our certified Zapier Experts to help you get setup with using Webhooks.

You can reach our Zapier Experts here: https://zapier.com/experts


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