Hi @keen, welcome to the Community! 

Instead of entering your login credentials for your Zapier account at https://parser.zapier.com/login/, can you try clicking the Log in with your Zapier account button instead?


Eager to ensure this gets sorted so please let me know how that goes! 

Ok.  That appeared to work.  But I am still lost.  Where do I create a mailbox and how do I get my gmails into it?  Tried looking for tutorials, but haven’t found any specific to this.

I’m here and don’t know what to do next.

Hi @keen 

You can to https://parser.zapier.com/ to create new mailboxes and rules. 

Hi @keen,

Here’s our help article on how to setup Email Parser by Zapier: https://help.zapier.com/hc/en-us/articles/8496306000269-Set-up-your-Email-Parser-account-in-Zapier#limitations-0-0

Additionally, you can watch this YouTube video as well: 

Hopefully, this helps!

Thanx everyone for your help and advice!  I decided that Zapier is not for me.  The interface isn’t intuitive and what I need just seems too complicated.  I can write a program to do what I need in less time.

All I wanted to do was parse an email (Google Alerts specifically) and extract the links from it.  Seems impossible.

Thanx again! So long and thanx for all the ghoti.

Thanks for letting us know @keen. If you’re just looking to extract all the links from an email, then instead of using Email Parser you could use a Formatter (Text > Extract Pattern) action. If the HTML version of the email message is used for the Input, that action could be set up to extract the links from within each <a> HTML tag.

For example for this email:

If you use a regex pattern of <a\s+t^>]*href=*"'](https?://p^"']+)^"'] in the Formatter action, like so: 


It should extract the three links in the email:


Totally understand that you’re likely not up for giving this a try right now, @keen. But I thought it would be worth sharing that suggestion here just in case it’s helpful to anyone else that comes across this thread and wants to know how to extract all links from an email. 

We’re sorry to see you go but if you ever change your mind and need any help with future Zaps you know where to find us!