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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

The OpenAI and ChatGPT integrations with Zapier

Zapier currently has 60+ integrations with AI applications, allowing you to do more with AI and automation. For example, the Synthesia app allows you to turn text into videos using AI avatars. With the Zapier-Synthesia integration, you can trigger Zaps when new videos are ready and create new videos, for example, when you receive a service information request from a lead. More information can be found at https://www.synthesia.io/ and https://zapier.com/apps/synthesia/integrations.

You can explore all the integrations at https://zapier.com/apps/categories/artificial-intelligence.

Two of the most popular integrations are the OpenAI and ChatGPT integrations. Let’s look at each of these in turn.

The Zapier-OpenAI integration

OpenAI is the maker of the GPT, DALL-E, and Whisper models, and is known by most users for the ChatGPT chatbot. With the GPT models, OpenAI uses natural language prompts to solve problems. With the...