How to receive and parse email with Cloud Functions?

Question

Google Cloud Functions allows you to easily activate a function upon a trigger (eg Firebase data change, HTTP request...).

I am looking for a way to execute a functi

Answer 1

One option if you use GSuite is to use the Gmail watch mechanism to listen to new emails in your inbox. The message can then be posted to a PubSub topic which can trigger a Cloud Function to parse the email and perform your necessary next steps.

Here is a good use case that explains this mechanism
https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/application-development/adding-custom-intelligence-to-gmail-with-serverless-on-gcp