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GMail Loader

Reads emails from your Gmail inbox and brings them into Nappai for processing. This lets you automate tasks that involve checking your email, like responding to specific messages or extracting information from emails.

Relationship with Gmail

This component connects directly to your Gmail account using your Google account credentials to securely access your emails. It uses Google’s OAuth2 system for secure authentication, so your password is never directly stored within Nappai.

Inputs

  • Number of Emails to read: Specifies how many emails to retrieve from your inbox. The default is 10. Increase this number if you need to process more emails.
  • Labels: Allows you to filter emails by Gmail labels (e.g., “Important,” “Work,” “Personal”). Leave this blank to read emails from your inbox without label filtering. You can select multiple labels.
  • Query: Lets you search for emails using keywords. For example, you could enter “invoice” to retrieve emails containing that word.
  • Credential: Select the Gmail account you wish to use from your connected accounts. You’ll need to connect your Gmail account to Nappai first if you haven’t already.

Outputs

The component produces a list of email contents. Each email’s content includes the email text and other metadata (like sender, subject, etc.). This output can then be used by other Nappai components to process the information contained within the emails. For example, you could use it with the “Summarizer” to get summaries of your emails or the “Entities extraction” to pull out key information.

Usage Example

Imagine you want to automatically process all emails with the label “Invoices.” You would configure the GMail Loader component with:

  • Number of Emails to read: 20
  • Labels: “Invoices”
  • Query: (Leave blank)
  • Credential: [Select your Gmail account]

The component would then fetch the 20 most recent emails with the “Invoices” label. The output (email content) could then be fed into other components to extract invoice numbers, amounts, or due dates.

Templates

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  • GMail Sender: Sends emails from your Gmail account. Use this to automatically reply to emails processed by the GMail Loader.
  • Summarizer: Summarizes text. Use this to get concise summaries of emails fetched by the GMail Loader.
  • Entities extraction: Extracts key information (like names, dates, and amounts) from text. Useful for extracting data from emails.
  • Google Sheet Writer: Writes data to Google Sheets. Use this to organize the extracted information from emails into a spreadsheet.

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Tips and Best Practices

  • Start with a small number of emails to test the component before processing large volumes.
  • Use labels and queries to efficiently filter emails and reduce processing time.
  • Regularly review the credentials to ensure they are still valid.

Security Considerations

  • Nappai uses OAuth2 to securely connect to your Gmail account. Never share your Google account password directly with Nappai.
  • Only grant the necessary permissions to the GMail Loader component. Review the permissions requested during the connection process.
  • Regularly review the activity logs for your Gmail account to monitor access.