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Whether you're looking for a way to get an Slack notifications for only the most important emails, such as from your boss, or you want to get a message when the latest issue of your favorite newsletter hits your inbox, rely on this Gmail Slack integration. To set it up, you'll just need to write the search string, which we provide instructions for.

Note: This Zapier integration only triggers for Gmail emails received within the last 48 hours.

How It Works

1. A new email meets your Gmail search criteria
2. Zapier posts a Slack message to the channel of your choice

What You Need

• Gmail account
• Slack account

Knowing when you have new responses to your forms is key to staying on top of incoming information. Why not have that come right into your team chat app? Zapier can help you with that, and you'll always know when you have a new response to see.

Note: To use this integration you'll need a live form that's set up to collect responses in a spreadsheet.

How this Google Forms-Slack integration works

1. You have a new form response
2. Zapier posts a Slack message to a channel

Apps involved

• Google Forms
• Slack

"Heads up! Team meeting starts in 10 minutes." This Zapier automation will be sure you and your team is ready for the next meeting—or whatever event—with a Slack notification 10 minutes before any scheduled event starts on Google Calendar. You can customize the notification time, too, having this message post 10, 15, 20 or however many minutes or hours you'd like as an advance warning.

How this Google Calendar-Slack integration works

1. A new event is about to start on Google Calendar
2. Zapier posts a message about it to your Slack channel at the pre-defined time before the event begins

Apps involved

• Google Calendar
• Slack

Twitter mentions are a great way to gauge sentiment about your brand, keep your entire team aware of issues, even know when there are problems that need to be solved. Sending those mentions directly to a Slack channel can help you stay on top of everything in near real time. With this integration, those Twitter mentions most important to you can be made available to anyone in your organization or just you via Slack.

How It Works

1. A Tweet includes a specified Twitter handle, keyword, or phrase
2. Zapier sends the Tweet to the Slack channel of your choosing

What You Need

• Twitter account
• Slack account

If you're part of a large team or group using Slack, new members can be added without a warm welcome. Automatically give them a friendly hello by using this Zapier integration that post a welcome message in #general for each new user.

How It Works

1. A new user is added to a Slack account
2. Zapier welcomes the user in #general

What You Need

• Slack account

Want a quick way to add data to a Google Sheets spreadsheet? Make a dedicated Slack channel for your spreadsheet, then setup this integration, and whenever a new message is posted to the Slack channel, Zapier will copy it into a new row in your spreadsheet. It's the quickest way to gather data from your team—or to create an archive of everything posted to your Slack channel.

How It Works

1. Post a new message to a channel in Slack
2. Zapier will copy the message into a new row in a Google Sheets spreadsheet

What You Need

• Google account
• Slack account

Google Drive is great for collaborating with others but it's easy to miss when a new file is added to a shared folder. This Zapier integration between Google Drive and Slack solves this, automatically posting a notification in the channel of your choice when a file is added to a specific folder in Drive.

How It Works

1. Zapier keeps an eye on a specific Google Drive folder
2. When a new file is added, Zapier posts a message (customizable) in Slack

What You Need

• Google Drive account
• Slack account

Slack is where your team doles out tasks. Trello is where you manage personal tasks. To create new cards in Trello right from Slack, use this integration and next time you star a message a Trello card will be created.

Note: This Zapier integration doesn't import already starred Slack message, only new starred messages once its been activated.

How It Works

1. You star a message in Slack
2. Zapier creates a Trello card using the Slack message text and link to message

What You Need

• Slack account
• Trello account

Automatically notify your team in Slack when a new item is published in an RSS feed of your choice. Customize the Slack message, too, showing the author, source, link to the article and more.

How It Works

1. Zapier watches an RSS feed for new items
2. When an item is published, Zapier shares it in Slack

What You Need

• RSS feed URL
• Slack account

Slack is where your team doles out tasks. Todoist is where you manage personal tasks. To create new tasks in Todoist right from Slack, use this integration and next time you star a message a Todoist take will be created.

Note: This Zapier integration doesn't import already starred Slack message, only new starred messages once its been activated.

How It Works

1. You star a message in Slack
2. Zapier creates a Todist task using the Slack message text and link to message

What You Need

• Slack account
• Todoist account

Sometimes there's no time to let the team know you're busy during back to back calls. Zapier can help ensure your Slack status is up to date during your next meeting—or whatever event—once you set up this automation. From then on, Zapier will set your Slack status to indicate you're busy 5 minutes before the Google Calendar event starts, and clear the status once it ends, saving you from the trouble of awkwardly trying to tell the team you can't get back to them at the moment.

Note: The lead time before setting a status can be customized to any amount of time you want - 5 mins, an hour, or more

How this Google Calendar-Slack integration works

1. A new event is about to start on Google Calendar
2. Zapier sets a Slack status for you at the pre-defined time before the event begins
3. Zapier then waits until the event is over on Google Calendar and clears out your status

Apps involved

• Google Calendar
• Slack

Keeping tags on certain trends on Instagram can be hard. This integration makes it easy to log an Instagram photo, video or media with a specific tag into Slack.

How It Works

1. A photo/video with a specific tag is added to Instagram from a public account
2. Zapier automatically posts that item to Slack for you

What You Need

• An Instagram account
• A Slack account

If it's not on Slack, did it really even happen? Use this automation to communicate your status with your team. After you set it up, whenever an event starts in Google Calendar, Zapier will update your status in Slack. That way, your team will know you're AFK with no extra effort on your part.

How this Google Calendar-Slack integration works

1. A Google Calendar event starts
2. Zapier updates your status in Slack (ie "on a call")

Apps involved

• Google Calendar
• Slack

Slack is where you find yourself coming up with new tasks. Asana is where you manage your tasks. To create new tasks in Asana right from Slack, use this integration and next time you star a message an Asana will be created.

Note: This Zapier integration doesn't import already starred Slack message, only new starred messages once its been activated.

How It Works

1. You star a message in Slack
2. Zapier creates an Asana task using the Slack message text and link to message

What You Need

• Slack account
• Asana account

Rather than continuously checking your email for new messages, use this Gmail Slack integration to get notified of each new email in the Slack channel of your choice. The notification contains the email subject, snippet (email preview), sender and link to the Gmail thread.

How It Works

1. You receive an email in Gmail
2. Zapier posts a Slack message in @slackbot or a channel of your choice

What You Need

• Gmail account
• Slack account

Using Slack to talk with your team and discuss your upcoming projects? Use Zapier to easily turn your conversations into tasks in OmniFocus, so you'll never forget to do anything your team's discussed. Just star a message in Slack when it contains something you need to do, and once you turn on this integration, Zapier will copy the message and add it to your OmniFocus inbox as a new task.

How It Works

1. You star a message in Slack
2. Zapier creates a new task in your OmniFocus inbox

What You Need

• A Slack account
• OmniFocus with an Omni Sync Server account

Whether you want to show off your brand's Instagram account to your team or keep your co-workers in the loop on your explorations outside of work, use this Instagram Slack integration to post new photos and videos to your team's communication tool.

How It Works

1. You post a new photo or video to Instagram
2. Zapier shares that photo or video in the Slack channel of your choice

What You Need

• Instagram account
• Slack account

When you want to send information to Slack from a tool you're using that isn't integrated with Zapier, webhooks are a great solution. Just copy the webhook URL we give you into your app, and then Zapier can receive new information from the app and send it to your team in a Slack message.

How It Works

1. New information is sent via webhook
2. Zapier sends that information to your Slack team

What You Need

• Slack account
• Webhook

Keep track of your new MailChimp subscribers in near real-time by setting up this MailChimp to Slack integration. Once set up, Zapier will notify you in Slack every time someone new subscribes to your MailChimp list.

How It Works

1. Someone subscribes to your MailChimp list
2. Zapier notifies you in Slack, either in private via @slackbot, or in a designated channel

What You Need

• MailChimp account
• Slack account

Each morning, Zapier checks your local forecast—it respects your Zapier account timezone settings—and posts the details you'd like to share in Slack. You can include the temperature, chance of rain, summary and more in the message. And you can post the message to any channel or send it to yourself via Slackbot.

How It Works

1. At 7 a.m. local time, Zapier checks the local forecast
2. Zapier pulls the details you requested and posts them to the Slack channel of your choice

What You Need

• Latitude and longitude of the area you want to check—use latlong.net to find yours
• Slack account