I would like to build a simple website that you can email photos, videos & audio files to. Anything that gets sent to a specific email address appears on the site.
Is it possible to make something like that (or similar) without custom code?
I’ve set it up and to a certain extent, it’s working – but not entirely.
I’ve set up the Zap in a way that - I think - it should be working but I’m confused with the options. I want it to grab the image that’s attached to the email and publish it automatically.
This is what it looks like. But I’m confused by it saying “Email attachment: (Exists but not shown)”
I grabbed a CMS gallery template to test this quickly. The 4 entries on the top that just show the date are the test emails I sent. So something gets published, just not the photo/attachment.
No images show up in the CMS items that are created by the emails.
Not sure if it will help but I’m just going to leave the read-only link here: Project LINK
Keep in mind that this is not necessarily the end project. I just picked a random gallery to test if this approach works.
A few words about what I have in mind:
As a mothers’ day project, I would like to make a simple site that kids can email photos (maybe videos & audio as well) to which will then get published automatically.
Ideally, the mother would get an email notification every time new content is published (but I don’t want to make it too complicated either).
Just thought I’d mention this in case anyone has - simpler - ideas on how to make this work or maybe some fun input on what functionality to add.
Ok, I think I’m going to give up on this. I’ve added fields in WF and deleted them again, deleted and rebuilt the zap and connected it with the parser and Webflow 3 times.
And this is the (latest) error message I’m getting now.
Sorry to hear that Christoph! Seems like something that can potentially work. I got notifications on for this topic, just haven’t had time to try and test it out on my end.
That stuff can be frustrating! Really good learning process though.
Tested this out with the same results. I think it might be an issue on Zapier’s end. When looking at the task history, looks like the image is coming in but not going out. You should email them, they’ll at least be able to see exactly what’s going wrong: