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Gmail and OpenAI integration
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How to connect Gmail and OpenAI
- Step 1: Create a new workflow
- Step 2: Add and configure nodes
- Step 3: Connect
- Step 4: Customize and extend your integration
- Step 5: Test and activate your workflow
Step 1: Create a new workflow and add the first step
In n8n, click the "Add workflow" button in the Workflows tab to create a new workflow. Add the starting point – a trigger on when your workflow should run: an app event, a schedule, a webhook call, another workflow, an AI chat, or a manual trigger. Sometimes, the HTTP Request node might already serve as your starting point.
Step 2: Add and configure Gmail and OpenAI nodes
You can find Gmail and OpenAI in the nodes panel. Drag them onto your workflow canvas, selecting their actions. Click each node, choose a credential, and authenticate to grant n8n access. Configure Gmail and OpenAI nodes one by one: input data on the left, parameters in the middle, and output data on the right.
Step 3: Connect Gmail and OpenAI
A connection establishes a link between Gmail and OpenAI (or vice versa) to route data through the workflow. Data flows from the output of one node to the input of another. You can have single or multiple connections for each node.
Step 4: Customize and extend your Gmail and OpenAI integration
Use n8n's core nodes such as If, Split Out, Merge, and others to transform and manipulate data. Write custom JavaScript or Python in the Code node and run it as a step in your workflow. Connect Gmail and OpenAI with any of n8n’s 1000+ integrations, and incorporate advanced AI logic into your workflows.
Step 5: Test and activate your Gmail and OpenAI workflow
Save and run the workflow to see if everything works as expected. Based on your configuration, data should flow from Gmail to OpenAI or vice versa. Easily debug your workflow: you can check past executions to isolate and fix the mistake. Once you've tested everything, make sure to save your workflow and activate it.
Popular Gmail and OpenAI workflows
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Compose reply draft in Gmail with OpenAI Assistant
This workflow uses OpenAI Assistant to compose draft replies for labeled email messages. It automatically connects the drafts to Gmail threads.
💡 You can add knowledge base to your OpenAI Assistant and make your reply drafts very customized (e.g. compose response with product information in response to inquiry from customer).
🎬 See this workflow in action in my YouTube video about automating Gmail.
How it works?
The workflow is triggered at regular intervals (default: every 1 minute – you can change this value) to check for messages with a specific label (e.g., "AI").
The content of the retrieved email message is then forwarded to the OpenAI Assistant node, and a reply draft is generated. Next, the response from the Assistant is converted to HTML, and a raw message in RFC standard is composed.
💡 You can learn more about composing drafts with the Gmail API in the official Google documentation.
The raw email message (reply draft) is encoded and attached to the original thread ID. Finally, the trigger label (in this case: "AI") is removed to prevent the workflow from looping.
Set up steps
Set credentials for Gmail and OpenAI.
Add new label in Gmail account for messages that should be handled by the workflow (e.g. name it "AI").
Select this label in the first and last Gmail nodes in workflow.
Create and configure your OpenAI Assistant. Select your assistant in "OpenAI Assistant" node.
Optionally: change trigger interval (by default interval is 1 minute).
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Automate Your RFP Process with OpenAI Assistants
This n8n workflow demonstrates how to automate oftern time-consuming form filling tasks in the early stages of the tendering process; the Request for Proposal document or "RFP".
It does this by utilising a company's knowledgebase to generating question-and-answer pairs using Large Language Models.
How it works
A buyer's RFP is submitted to the workflow as a digital document that can be parsed.
Our first AI agent scans and extracts all questions from the document into list form.
The supplier sets up an OpenAI assistant prior loaded with company brand, marketing and technical documents.
The workflow loops through each of the buyer's questions and poses these to the OpenAI assistant.
The assistant's answers are captured until all questions are satisified and are then exported into a new document for review.
A sales team member is then able to use this document to respond quickly to the RFP before their competitors.
Example Webhook Request
curl --location 'https://<n8n_webhook_url>' \
--form 'id="RFP001"' \
--form 'title="BlueChip Travel and StarBus Web Services"' \
--form 'reply_to="[email protected]"' \
--form 'data=@"k9pnbALxX/RFP Questionnaire.pdf"'
Requirements
An OpenAI account to use AI services.
Customising the workflow
OpenAI assistants is only one approach to hosting a company knowledgebase for AI to use. Exploring different solutions such as building your own RAG-powered database can sometimes yield better results in terms of control of how the data is managed and cost.
Build your own Gmail and OpenAI integration
Create custom Gmail and OpenAI workflows by choosing triggers and actions. Nodes come with global operations and settings, as well as app-specific parameters that can be configured. You can also use the HTTP Request node to query data from any app or service with a REST API.
Gmail and OpenAI integration details
OpenAI
OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT, offers a range of powerful models including GPT-3, DALL·E, and Whisper. Leverage these models to build AI-powered workflows.
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