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How to Extract Raw HTML from Gmail Emails for Automation

Hey everyone! 👋 I'm using gmail email received as a trigger, but it only pulls the text of the email, i need the raw html of the email so I can use that in a later step. I cannot for the life of me figure out how to extract the raw html of the email so I can save the formatting. Does anyone know how I can do that? Thanks! 💌 Alon J. Would love your help, saw you replying to others, thanks!

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Alon J.
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Hey David! Oh, that's a tough one - I'm not entirely sure to be honest. Perhaps Marvin A. is aware how to do this? 🙏
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Marvin A.
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unfortunately not with the gmail email received trigger. BUT you could get it using the Search Emails action and activate the toggle to return the complete body. Be careful though as this will dramatically increase the token size depending on the content 😄
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David V.
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Thanks Marvin A. and Alon J.! Unfortunately, the Search Emails action, with the complete body toggle, just gives the complete body in text form, not HTML. Is there any other way to pull the actual HTML from a gmail email with any other steps, or will Lindy always just pull plain text? Thanks again for the help!
Marvin A.
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ahhh got you
Marvin A.
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sorry about that! The action you can use to get the raw HTML is Get Email
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David V.
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David V.
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Thank you so much Marvin A.! I'll use that! :) BTW I found a workaround that was pretty annoying, via the gmail API, so adding that info here in-case somebody else might be interested in doing this outside of the Get Email action for any specific reason. Thanks again! (Body for google_token step is as follows: Get from https://console.cloud.google.com/apis/library/gmail.googleapis.com client_id=REPLACE_THIS& client_secret=REPLACE_THIS& refresh_token=REPLACE_THIS& grant_type=refresh_token
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Marvin A.
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Oh wow! Thanks for sharing 🤝