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Here’s what I covered this week:
Task History Refresh live for all users!
To make head-scratching (hopefully) a little less frequent when things go wrong with your zaps, Zapier has done a refresh, making it easier to filter issue types and date ranges.
It's also got much easier to see how many tasks your zaps are using each month.
Parsing information from emails into Zapier - the options
You probably have all sorts of services, sites and apps sending you transactional stuff by email. Wouldn't it be cool if you could get that data into Zapier and trigger a zap? Well, you can.
How to Use Bannerbear with Zapier to Auto Generate Instagram Stories
Bannerbear is an API for generating images. Pick a template and it will split out images with different texts, colours and background images.
One cool thing your business can do with it generates Instagram Story slides whenever you publish something on your blog.
Watch the recent AMA with VP of Engineering at Zapier, Doug Gaff
Hosted by Plato, Doug talked all about Zapier and what the engineering team have been up to.
What's everyone's favourite CRM? And how are you automating it with Zapier?
Capiche is a very cool new Q&A and discussion site for technologists. Recently, we decided to ask people what their favourite CRM is and how they automate it with Zapier.
We got some great answers.
Find out when your Twitter handle is mentioned
Using Google Alerts, an RSS feed and Zapier you can find out any time your Twitter handle gets mentioned in an article.
Also works for your name (or your competitor's) or any keyword you might be interested in.
The Big List of Zapier Hacks for Marketers
Way back in 2015, Buffer wrote a guide with lots of ideas for building stuff with Zapier. It's so good, Google still puts it up top when you go Googling for Zapier help.