You can use this template to setup a workflow that listens in to incoming email messages and when it gets a hit it parses the message's data into key/value pairs and writes the data to a google spreadsheet.
version: '0.1'
addresses:
local@mailscript.com:
keys:
- name: owner
read: true
write: true
accessories:
- name: local@mailscript.com
type: mailscript-email
address: local@mailscript.com
key: owner
workflows:
- name: data to spreadsheet
trigger:
accessory: local@mailscript.com
config:
criterias: []
actions:
- config:
type: webhook
body: |
{
"row": "{{all}}",
"docId": "spreadsheet-id-in-base64",
"credsClientEmail": "service-account-email-address-in-base64",
"credsPrivateKey": "service-account-private-key-in-base64"
}
url: 'https://write-to-csv-endpoint.url'
opts:
headers:
Content-Type: application/json
method: POST
Expects body.json
file containing a JSON object with the following props row
(value "{{all}}"
- notice the double quotes), docId
, credsClientEmail
and credsPrivateKey
. A sample file has been included in this repo.
mailscript workflows:add --name "data to spreadsheet" \
--trigger address@mailscript.com \
--action webhook \
--webhook "https://write-to-csv-endpoint.url" \
--body body.json
- Create a new google spreadsheet here: https://docs.google.com/.
- Create a new service account here: https://console.cloud.google.com/projectselector2/iam-admin/serviceaccounts?supportedpurview=project. We suggest you setup a new project and a service account per project to be able to write/read to/from the spreadsheet but you should set this up based on your own project's needs. Hint: the simplest setup only needs you to give the service account a name.
- Once the service account has been created, select it and create a new key in JSON format. You should be prompted to save a
json
file locally. We'll need 2 pieces of data from that file:client_email
andprivate_key
. - Encode both the
client_email
andprivate_key
tobase64
format. If you have access to a JavaScript context you can use thebtoa
function (btoa('Any string')
). Input the appropriate values into thebody.json
file. - Setup a cloud function to write the data. Using your serverless provider of choice you'll need to setup an endpoint to write/read to/from the spreadsheet. A
handler.js
file has been added to this repo where you can see a code example used to write/read data programmatically to/from the google spreadsheet. - Done, you can now start to
csvsify
your email data.