Using Zapier for single email validation
Email validation allows you to identify valid, invalid, and high-risk emails rapidly. Our Zapier integration allows you to validate an email address and pass the results along to the next stage.
Follow these steps to start using ZeroBounce Single Email Validation with your Zaps.
Step 1 - Create a new Zap (see Create a New Zap section above)
Step 2 - Select a trigger
- A trigger external to ZeroBounce is required (an event listener on a different app to initiate our Zap). For this example, we’ll use an email received on our gmail account. Type “gmail” into the search bar and select the Gmail option.
- Choose an event on your Gmail account to trigger this sequence. For this example, we’ll use the New Email Matching Search trigger. Select it using the Event field. Click Continue.
- You may need to grant Zapier access to your Gmail account. If you’ve yet to do so, see the Link Gmail Account section above for more details. Click Continue.
- Specify a trigger search text in the Search String field. For our example, we’ll use “Zapier Validate Test”. Click Continue.
- Verify that your trigger works correctly by clicking Test trigger.
- Zapier should fetch an email from your gmail account that matches the search criteria. If there aren’t any, you should create one to ensure your test works properly.
Step 3 - ZeroBounce email validation
- Type “ZeroBounce” into the search bar and select the ZeroBounce option.
- In the action view, select the Validate Email option from the dropdown, and click Continue.
- If you’ve yet to do so, you will need to link your ZeroBounce account to Zapier. For more details on how to do this, please refer to the Link ZeroBounce Account section above. Click Continue.
- Next, we’ll configure our action.
The two parameters are Email and IP Address (IP Address is optional). You can link fields from the previous step here, such as the From field from the email we received, or enter them manually (manually entered values will be static and used across all activations of the Zap). Click Continue.
- Click Test Action to verify that your Zap works correctly.
- You should receive a response like this.
Step 4 - Add a new action
- The result from the previous step does not do much by itself, but we can chain another action that uses it.
- Next, we’ll insert a new row into a Google Sheet that we own. To add a new action, click the (+) symbol at the end of the previous one.
- Select the Google Sheets option.
- Select Create Spreadsheet Row from the Event dropdown. Click Continue.
- If you’ve yet to do so, you will need to link your Google Sheets account. For more details please see the Link Google Sheets Account section. Click Continue.
- You will need to create a spreadsheet with the appropriate header on your Google Drive account. Please create one with the “Email, Status” column headers. Then, select the appropriate values for Drive, Spreadsheet and Worksheet from the menu.
Once these are filled in, the available parameter boxes will appear based on our Google Sheet file header (in this case, Email and Status). You can feed values from the previous steps into them. Values with the ZB logo come from the ZeroBounce action, while ones with the Gmail logo come from the Gmail action.
Select Address and Status respectively. You should be able to see their values from the previous steps. Click Continue.
- Check that the extracted values are correct and click Test Action.
- The test should return the newly inserted row. You should also be able to see it in the spreadsheet you created. At this point, you may publish and activate your Zap. Click Publish Zap.
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