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How do I avoid extracting "mailto:" when parsing an email address?

  • 27 April 2022
  • 3 replies
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M

Hi,

I’m using Email Parser by Zapier, to parse an email from Gmail.

The parsing is working, but as I’m parsing an email field, instead of only parsing example@email.com it parses example@email.com (mailto:example@email.com). Is there a way to avoid parsing (mailto:example@email.com)?

Thanks!

Regards, Miguel

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M

I solved it sending the email as plain text.

Troy Tessalone
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Hi @miguelduffy 

TIP: Use a more robust email parser app such as Mailparser: https://zapier.com/apps/mailparser/integrations#triggers-and-actions

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jesse
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Hey @miguelduffy Glad to see you were able to use plain text as a solution here! For anyone following along, there are a few options outside of “plain text” to parse only the email address from the output:

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