Im new to Zapier and I have a question regarding past data. So I’ve start to understand the drill.
When X happens in application 1 do Y in application 2. All good. But I’m wondering if Zapier also works with past data? Like when X happend in the past.
To give you a bit more context. I’m trying to fill an Airtable database with data from emails I received in the past. I subscribed to an email list which sent me an email every day for the past 6 months. I would love to collect all those email in an airtable database. Is this possible using Zapier?
Thanks for your help! Much appreciated!
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Best answer by SamBBest answer by SamB
Just wanted to jump in to summarize an answer here! :)
As Troy mentioned, Zaps are meant to move data in real-time so they would only transfer data data between apps whilst switched on.
There is a workaround for importing previous data, if you can export the data as a CSV file, which is outlined here:
Alternatively, Gmail has a New Labeled Email trigger so you could make a copy of the existing Zap and switch it to use that Gmail trigger instead. Then you can assign a specific label to the old emails which would then allow the Zap to see them and add them into Airtable.
Gmail. But a manual export would be perfect, but I have no clue how to export the content of multiple emails directly into a nice csv. But I’ll dig more into it. Thanks for your time!
Alternatively, Gmail has a New Labeled Email trigger so you could make a copy of the existing Zap and switch it to use that Gmail trigger instead. Then you can assign a specific label to the old emails which would then allow the Zap to see them and add them into Airtable.
