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

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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

jesse · Accepted Answer

Hey @miguelduffyGlad 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:Create additional parser templates or change the parsing engine to help the parser learn which data to parse and which to let be. This article includes a few steps you can try to get your emails parsed correctly:https://zapier.com/help/troubleshoot/behavior/emails-are-parsed-incorrectly-in-zapierUtilize a Formatter > Text > “Extract Email Address” step to extract only the email address from what the parser is offering you. More info:https://zapier.com/help/create/format/extract-data-in-zaps#extract-email-addressUtilize a Formatter > Text > Find/Replace step to find “mailto:” and leave the “replace” field empty to remove it from the string altogether.Lastly, you could utilize a morerobust email parser likeMailparser as Troy suggested:https://zapier.com/apps/mailparser/integrations#triggers-and-actions

miguelduffy · Answer

I solved it sending the email as plain text.

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