Automatically Add Gmail Sender Contacts to MySQL Database

This workflow processes emails received in Gmail and adds the sender's name and email address to a MySQL database.

Use Cases:

• A sales or marketing agency can use this to automatically save client contact info to a database to build a list of leads
• Companies can use this to automatically save contacts to a database in case of Gmail data loss / losing access to their Gmail account
• Companies can build mailing lists to automatically send promotions to all of the clients who have contacted them in a given time period

Before using, you need to have:

• Gmail credentials
• MySQL database credentials
• A Table in the MySQL database to store your contacts
• The table should have a "name" column, which allows NULL values
• The table should have an "email" column, which should be UNIQUE

How it works:

• The Gmail Trigger will listen for a new email every minute
• For each email, the code node will extract the name and email address of the sender. If there is no name, it will return null
• The MySQL node will insert the new contact into a table in your database
• If the contact email already exists in your database, the MySQL node will update the contact name

How to use:

• Please set up the MySQL node by selecting the correct table to store contacts in
• Please choose your "email" column to match on
• Please choose your "name" column to store names

Customizing this Workflow:

• You can customize this workflow to save more data to MySQL. Here are some examples:
• In the MySQL node, click "Add Value", and choose one of the fields from the Gmail node to save in your database column. You can try saving the following items:
  • Subject line
  • Message ID
  • ThreadID
  • Snippet
  • Recipient Info