Help extracting id from email

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Hello. I use New Email from IMAP API + Forward a Message with Telegram Bot API. There is an ID in the text that you need to extract and paste into the chat ID field. Tell me how to do it right? The necessary id for convenience in letters is enclosed in brackets

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Hi @fmdnepr,

To extract the ID from the email text and use it as the chat ID in the Telegram Bot API, you can follow these steps:

  1. Use the IMAP - New Email trigger to listen for new emails.
  2. Add a code step to extract the ID from the email text. You can use a regular expression to match the text within brackets.
  3. Use the Telegram Bot - Reply to Message action to forward the message, setting the extracted ID as the chat ID.

Here’s a sample Pipedream component that extracts the ID from the email text:

export default defineComponent({
  async run({ steps }) {
    const emailText = steps.trigger.event.text;
    const idRegex = /\(([^)]+)\)/;
    const match = emailText.match(idRegex);

    if (match) {
      const extractedId = match[1];
      return extractedId;
    } else {
      console.log("No ID found in the email text.");
    }
  },
});

After adding this code step, you can use the output from this step as the chat ID in the Telegram Bot - Reply to Message action. Make sure to replace steps.trigger.event.text with the actual step name that contains the email text from the IMAP - New Email trigger.
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Cool! You are a super cool specialist - it really works! Is it possible to use this method to extract data from the field

“To: name@sitename.com”, leaving only the name before @