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Automate It with Zapier and Generative AI - Second Edition

By : Kelly Goss
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Automate It with Zapier and Generative AI - Second Edition

By: Kelly Goss

Overview of this book

Organizations experience significant issues with productivity when dealing with manual and repetitive tasks. Automate it with Zapier and Generative AI, second edition has been extensively revised to help you analyze your processes and identify repetitive tasks that can be automated between 6000+ cloud-based business applications. This book includes all Zapier’s newest features such as AI functionality using the ChatGPT plugin, drafts, reordering and duplicating steps and paths, subfolders and version history, as well as built-in apps such as Looping, Sub-Zap, Interfaces, Tables, and Transfer. The chapters also contain examples covering various use cases sourced from the Zapier user community. You'll learn how to implement automation in your organization along with key principles and terminology, and take the first steps toward using Zapier. As you advance, you'll learn how to use Zapier’s native functionality and all 27 built-in apps such as Filter, Paths, Formatter, Digest, and Scheduler to enable you to build multi-step Zaps. You’ll also discover how to manage your Zapier account effectively, as well as how to troubleshoot technical problems with your workflows, and use the OpenAI integration to automate AI tasks. By the end of this book, you'll be able to automate your manual and repetitive tasks using Zapier.
Table of Contents (33 chapters)
1
Part 1: Getting Started with Zapier
7
Part 2: Customizing Your Zaps with Built-in Apps by Zapier – Functionality and Practical Uses
16
Part 3: Using the Features of the Formatter by Zapier Built-In App
22
Part 4: Getting the Most Out of Zapier

Other Useful Built-In Apps by Zapier

In the previous chapter, we reviewed three Zapier built-in apps to extract and compile data. In this chapter, we will continue looking at more built-in functionality that Zapier has to offer with its range of built-in apps. We will cover descriptions of their functionality and provide practical tips on how to use them.

First, we will explore how to use the Zapier Chrome extension (previously called Push by Zapier) to initiate one-off automation from any page on the internet, and how to shorten URLs with URL Shortener by Zapier. Then, we will discuss how to translate text from different languages using Translate by Zapier, and how to score lead information using Lead Score by Zapier. Lastly, we will cover how to use data on weather conditions using Weather by Zapier, and how to use astrological predictions using Retrograde by Zapier.

We will cover the following key topics in this chapter:

  • Zapier Chrome extension – triggering...