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Wondering what folks do when they want to extract data from the browser or interact with a page in Chrome for their automations. I’ve tried the Zapier Chrome Extension, but it only lets you create fields that the user would have to fill in when running an automation, rather than scraping the page itself to prefill that. Seems like its basically just a button and not really interacting with the page. Is there another way to do it?I’ve been building with PixieBrix that works alongside Zapier. Made a quick video showing how it works:No cost for developers, and it's a standalone product for automation but wondering if it would be useful for anyone else’s Zapier workflows that need some sort of front end or scraping capability? Or is there something better out there I’ve just totally missed?

The failure mode nobody talks about isn't the red error in your task history. It's the green checkmark on a Zap that ran perfectly and did exactly the wrong thing.A filter lets through a record it shouldn't. A field maps to the right place with the wrong value. A formatter strips a character that breaks everything downstream. Zapier did its job. Your workflow didn't.These are silent failures, and they're worse than crashes because you're not looking for them. We've all been there. You only find out something's been broken for two weeks when a customer mentions it.Three ways to catch them before that happens:1. Log outputs, not just runs Add a final step to any critical Zap that writes key field values to a Google Sheet or Airtable. Not the whole record, just the fields that matter most. Date, order ID, status, whatever you'd check if something went wrong. When it does go wrong, you'll know exactly where the data broke instead of reconstru

I had fun making this step-by-step walkthrough on how to build a smart contact form system thatFilters spam automatically (AI by Zapier) Logs inquiries in a central database (Zapier Tables) Sends an instant confirmation email (Gmail or Outlook – your choice) Alerts you internally (Email by Zapier, Slack, or another messaging service of your choice) Drafts email replies (AI by Zapier)Feel free to take a look and comment if you have any thoughts or questions! Video: Build a Smart Contact Form System with Zapier 

Spent way too long debugging this recently so figured I'd write it up properly.If you're building a Zap that posts images to Instagram - especially AI generated ones - you've probably hit this wall:Instagram app does not accept file data. It needs a direct public URL ending in .jpg or .png. Not a redirect link. Not a share link. A direct file URL.This trips people up in a few different ways:OpenAI image URLs expire in an hourIf you're generating images with DALL-E and passing that URL straight to Instagram, it works - until there's any delay in the workflow. A human approval step, a filter, a wait - anything that adds time breaks it. The URL expires and Instagram throws a media type error.Google Drive and Dropbox share links don't workThese are not true public URL, they’re HTML pages, so they don’t work too.imgbb works until it doesn'timg

If you've been using Imgur or imgbb inside Zapier, you know the drill.Set up an HTTP action, dig through the API docs, figure out the right endpoint, parse the response to extract the URL, and then hope the URL format actually works with whatever app is receiving it. Half the time it doesn't - wrong headers, redirect URLs, or rate limits you didn't know existed.Google Drive share links aren't much better. They look fine until an API actually tries to use them.Here's what I switched to.It's called Upload to URL - a native Zapier app that does one thing:Pass it any file → get a clean public CDN URL back Works with images, PDFs, any file type Set an expiry if you only need the URL temporarily Keep it permanently if you need it to stick aroundNo Webhook action. Just a native Zap step that plugs straight into your Zap.Search

If you use Slack as a notification hub for your automations, you've probably run into the formatting problem: you pass in standard markdown and it comes out looking mangled. Bold doesn't work, links render weirdly, lists break.That's because Slack uses its own flavour of markdown called "mrkdwn" — *bold* instead of **bold**, _italic_ instead of *italic*, <url|text> instead of [text](url), and so on. Until now, you either lived with ugly messages, wrote a bunch of janky .replace() chains, or gave up and used plain text.With the new third-party package support in Code by Zapier, you can now just import a library that handles the conversion properly:from markdown_to_mrkdwn im

If one of your Zapier step generates a file, but the next step expects a public file URL, you may need a way to upload this file on a server.The usual answer is Google Drive, but their URLs are not accepted by a lot of apps, and it requires some manual change in URL structure for it to work.Another great option is S3. But configuring S3 correctly (bucket policies, IAM roles, public access settings) is a project in itself. A bit much when all you need is a URL to pass to the next step.I had seen many people facing this pain.So I built Upload to URL - a Zapier app with one core idea: you get your public URL immediately, but the file doesn't remain on the server forever. You can decide when the file is to be removed from the server.Here's how it works inside a zap: Upload any file → get a public URL instantly Set an expiry date - the file self-destructs automatically on that date Or u

Hey all,  I use my daily meeting transcripts and emails to build my digital brain automatically. The digital brain is my ai agent brain that know what I know as well and can be my best advisor on daily tasks:help me prepare for my next meeting help write more impactful emails to prospects help me find content ideas from my conversations Here is how I do it using Zapier to process my transcripts from Krisp to Brain Graph.I would love to hear your feedback.   

I previously had this running through Twilio ↔ Zapier ↔ Slack, which worked but added unnecessary complexity and another service to maintain. Now that Zapier's a direct WhatsApp Business Service Provider, I stripped out the middleware and connected straight through. What it does:Inbound: WhatsApp messages trigger the workflow → creates/finds user records in Tables → auto-creates dedicated Slack channels for new contacts → posts messages with full context (timestamp, delivery status) Outbound: Slack replies get formatted and sent bac

This guide shows you how to automatically route contact form submissions to the right team member based on their language skills and department. This approach works for any form tool such as Google Forms, Typeform, or JotForm. For this example, we’ll be using Google Forms.When a customer submits your contact form:AI analyzes the message to detect the language AI classifies which department the inquiry belongs to (Sales, Support, Billing) An email is sent to a qualified team member using round-robin rotationHere’s what the completed automation looks like:  Set Up the AutomationThis automation triggers when someone submits your contact form and sends an email to the right team member based on their language skills and depar

Notion's AI Meeting Notes are fantastic, but there's a catch: the public REST API doesn't (yet) support reading content from the Meeting Notes block type, which means the native Zapier integration can’t access it either. If you try to retrieve a meeting note page via Zapier's standard Notion integration, you get the page metadata but not the actual transcript or summary. The content comes back as an "unsupported block type."For a while, I was copying and pasting the meeting block content into another section of the page, running an automation to extract information, and then deleting the duplicate copy. Like an animal.Then I remembered: Notion has an MCP server, that its MCP server is able to access content from Meeting Note blocks, and that Zapier has an action that lets you to use any remote MCP server within a Zap.

Been wondering how to scrape any website without code or complicated setup inside your Zapier automations???Meet AI Scraper by Parsera - originally launched on n8n with over 10,000 downloads, and now fully available on Zapier ✅ With AI Scraper by Parsera, you can:Scrape data from any Webpage (provide URL and data description) Parse HTML files Use pre-built Extractors (Scrapers) that make it possible to: select webpages directly from a Website Tree Map Ge

Hello!We’ve just built a connector that lets you forecast revenue, sales, and other business metrics directly in Zapier. The connector is currently in beta, but we’re happy to share access and give you some free credits to try it out. We’d love to hear your feedback and learn how we can improve the connector to make it easier for you to use in your workflows. Here’s a quick “hello world” demo:Best regards,Andrei XXXXXXXFAIM Invite link to access the app: https://zapier.com/developer/public-invite/233744/3632ef55b34213bbd921d39f04f336a8/ This post has been edited by a moderator to remove personally identifiable information (PII). Please remember that this is a public forum

Welcome friends! Today we're going to be talking about how to upload Zoom recordings to other apps. Now, it may seem like an easy enough workflow but it’s one that can often lead to errors. Let’s take a look at how to set up this sort of workflow up and how to handle any errors you may come across!Setup requirements Selecting the file in your app How to handle multiple Zoom recordings?  Uploading audio recordings Troubleshooting common errors Further

In this guide, we’ll use AI by Zapier and EnforcedFlow’s Human-in-the-Loop step to automatically generate review responses while preventing AI mistakes (misreading complaints, hallucinating policies, wrong tone) from going public. This requires two Zaps working together:Zap 1: New review → AI generates response → Creates approval task → Emails reviewer Zap 2: Task approved → Filters for approved only → Posts to Google Business Profile Zap 1: Generate & Submit for ApprovalStep 1: Google Business Profile TriggerApp: Google Business Profile Event: New Review Connect your account and test the trigger

If you manage social media, you know the struggle — posting across multiple platforms, engaging with your audience, and then trying to figure out what’s actually working.Most of us end up juggling spreadsheets, screenshots, and endless tabs just to track performance. But what if you could see all your post insights — likes, comments, reach, and clicks — in one dashboard, updated automatically?That’s where Zapier automation comes in.💡 The IdeaInstead of manually checking analytics on LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, or X (Twitter), you can use Zapier to automatically pull your post data into a Google Sheet or Notion dashboard. Every time you publish a post, Zapier does the heavy lifting — capturing your metrics and keeping everything updated in real time.No manual entry.No waiting for reports.No data chaos.⚙️ How to Set It UpHere’s a simple structure you

It’s always bugged me that Notion’s API (and, by extension, its Zapier integration) didn’t support applying a template to a page in a database. You go to all the work of creating detailed templates for your databases, but then can’t use them in automations.It’s still not supported yet in the Zapier integration, but templates are now exposed in Notion’s API. I learned about it here.In the meantime, I’ve created a simple Custom Action to apply a template to an existing page - the code is below if you want to copy. It just takes two inputs - the page_id of the page you want to apply the template to, and the template_id that you want to apply.You can find all the template_ids for a given data source using the GET 

It’s always bugged me that Notion’s official Zapier integration doesn’t provide a way to retrieve someone’s user ID using their email address. You can only retrieve a user by their ID, but often, all you have is their email address.The reason for this is probably that Notion’s API doesn’t directly support retrieval of a user by their email address; you can only either list all users, or retrieve a single user by their ID.Fortunately, Custom Actions provides a workaround, since it can combine API calls with light filtering to pull this off in a single action. It’s dead simple to use, and just requires a single input - the email address of the user whose ID you want to retrieve: If you do

Hey everyone 👋I wanted to share something really useful for anyone running online events, webinars, or training programs — especially if you often need to send digital certificates or badges to participants.You can now use IssueBadge.com with Zapier to issue badges or certificates automatically — no coding needed.Here’s how it works 👇1️⃣ Connect your event platform — for example, Zoom, Google Meet, or any webinar app that Zapier supports.2️⃣ Set your trigger, like “New attendee joined” or “Webinar completed.”3️⃣ Add IssueBadge as the action.4️⃣ Choose your certificate or badge template, and map the participant’s name, email, and other info.5️⃣ Hit save — now every time someone completes your even

Hey everyone 👋I’m excited to share that Clipboard Genie, my advanced clipboard manager for Windows, now has a public Zapier integration!Clipboard Genie keeps a full clipboard history and lets you automate actions on copied text — translate, summarize, or run AI prompts with tools like OpenAI and Gemini.With the new Zapier integration, you can now: Send clipboard text directly to your favorite Zapier workflows. Receive data from Zapier to create new clipboard items automatically. Show desktop notifications triggered by any Zapier event (e.g. new email, file upload, form submission). This turns your clipboard into a real productivity hub — connecting your desktop with the cloud ⚡🎥 Here are two short d

Hello,I’ve been experimenting with the “Always run” option since Zapier introduced sequential Path execution, and noticed that previous branch outputs aren’t available in the “Always run” branch. Here’s a workaround I found useful.Use the Storage action to temporarily save data for later use. The challenge is that Storage is shared across all Zaps, which can cause concurrency issues. To avoid this, use the Zap Run ID as the storage key.Since Storage keys are limited to 32 characters and Run IDs have 36 (including hyphens), you can shorten them using a Formatter step to fit the limit. In each branch: Add a Storage action with event “Set child value.” Use the Formatt

Hi,We are launching JaaS AI - an  AI evaluation tool that enables real-time monitoring of chatbots and measurement of outcomes, including hallucinations. Some features: Evaluate and test your chatbot/agent before launching Monitor your agent once it is launched. Predefined and customizable metrics for scoring. Track the metrics that are important to you. Group your evaluations for easier review using cohorts. Real-time monitoring.Visit us at: jaas-ai.netTry it here:https://zapier.com/developer/public-invite/230552/18b684e3267990ef485da9c845ef8bea/ You can also check our documentation; we have a Zapier example!Thanks!!

Quick guide on how to easily setup skill based routing in Zapier with Advanced Round Robin action of EnforcedFlow. Step 1: Set Up Get Next Agent actionThis action is available under EnforcedFlow To setup a connection you can get a free API key from enforcedflow (follow the connection guide) Step 2: Setup a Round Robin GroupIn next step you will be required a select a group, first we need to create a group, click the link in help text and visit EnforcedFlow to setup a group 

We’ve been using Zapier for several years to populate Survey Monkey responses into our CRM. We usually just copy the existing zap and update the name of the new survey. We always run a test response just to make sure everything is working as expected. The tests were fine and the zap was published.When the survey was sent out, no responses came through. I checked for new responses in the zap editor and it was able to pull in additional responses. However when it was live, still no responses. I reached out to support, but the only suggestion was to turn it off for 30 seconds and turn it back on. Unfortunately, I was unaware that our user name for Survey Monkey had changed. The password was still the same, but this change should have been picked up in the build process. After I updated the login, the responses started coming in again.I’m posting this here as a heads up to anyone that might experience the same issue with Survey Monkey.