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Download Gmail as PDF?

lauringg — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 22:56:30 GMT

Hey team, I need to download a new email and its attachments as PDFs so I can pass them to other recipes/actions. The Gmail connector only has {Download email attachment from Gmail} as an action; for the email itself,everywhere I'm reading says you have to concat each datapill of info (sender, recipient, date, email body, etc.) but that won't suffice for my use-case.

Does anyone know of a creative way to save an email as PDF as if you were to do so manually via Gmail?

Re: Download Gmail as PDF?

gary1 — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 17:37:44 GMT

I don't think there is a way to get the exact PDF that Gmail generates.

Like others have suggested, you'll need to the the data pills to construct an email document and then render it as PDF.

If I had to do this, I would create a standard HTML message template in Workato, feed the data pills into the message template, then use another solution (API or otherwise) to convert the HTML into a PDF.

There are probably other ways, but I'm just waking up from two weeks of vacation so my brain is a little rusty.