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Gmail and Slack connection
Save yourself the work of writing custom integrations for Gmail and Slack and use n8n instead. Build adaptable and scalable Communication, HITL, workflows that work with your technology stack. All within a building experience you will love.
Ways to connect Gmail and Slack
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.
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Create your own Gmail and Slack connection
Create custom Gmail + Slack automations 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 supported actions
Add Label
Delete
Get
Get Many
Mark as Read
Mark as Unread
Remove Label
Reply
Send
Send and Wait for Response
Create
Delete
Get
Get Many
Create
Delete
Get
Get Many
Add Label
Delete
Get
Get Many
Remove Label
Reply
Trash
Untrash
Slack supported actions
Archive
Archives a conversation
Close
Closes a direct message or multi-person direct message
Create
Initiates a public or private channel-based conversation
Get
Get information about a channel
Get Many
Get many channels in a Slack team
History
Get a conversation's history of messages and events
Invite
Invite a user to a channel
Join
Joins an existing conversation
Kick
Removes a user from a channel
Leave
Leaves a conversation
Member
List members of a conversation
Open
Opens or resumes a direct message or multi-person direct message
Rename
Renames a conversation
Replies
Get a thread of messages posted to a channel
Set Purpose
Sets the purpose for a conversation
Set Topic
Sets the topic for a conversation
Unarchive
Unarchives a conversation
Get
Get Many
Get & filters team files
Upload
Create or upload an existing file
Delete
Get Permalink
Search
Send
Send and Wait for Response
Update
Add
Adds a reaction to a message
Get
Get the reactions of a message
Remove
Remove a reaction of a message
Add
Add a star to an item
Delete
Delete a star from an item
Get Many
Get many stars of autenticated user
Get
Get information about a user
Get Many
Get a list of many users
Get User's Profile
Get a user's profile
Get User's Status
Get online status of a user
Update User's Profile
Update a user's profile
Add Users
Create
Disable
Enable
Get Many
Get Users
Update
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