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Re:Turn Gtalk Into A Command Line for the Web With Zapier by bryanh on Monday April 29, 2013 @03:56PM (#5628312)
Interesting use case!

Unfortunately we don't have that clever of a parser. We've definitely talked about it but aren't 100% sold on any sort of internal implementation.

We've thought about a "reverse template" where you would mark blocks of text as "variables" across a few examples and we'd parse it out. Not sure if that is feasible though...

Any HN'ers done this before and have ideas or tips?

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Re:Turn Gtalk Into A Command Line for the Web With Zapier by gingerlime on Monday April 29, 2013 @05:28PM (#5628925)
I think postmark and mandrill (and maybe others) do inbound email processing and then fire a webhook. Maybe hooking those together via zapier could provide a solution? I haven't actually used any inbound mail processing yet (or I'm ashamed to admit, zapier), but it sounds doable.

p.s. Hey Bryan!

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Re:Turn Gtalk Into A Command Line for the Web With Zapier by bryanh on Monday April 29, 2013 @07:39PM (#5629572)
We definitely support catching inbound email (https://zapier.com/zapbook/email/ and https://zapier.com/zapbook/mailgun/ comes to mind). I'm curious if there is a clever parsing solution...
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