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Send scheduled emails with SendGrid

Send scheduled emails through SendGrid from your verified sender: recurring reports, reminders, and digests filled in from any API.

Example: a daily open-tickets digest

json
{
  "name": "Open tickets digest",
  "cron": { "expression": "0 7 * * 1-5", "time_zone": "Australia/Sydney" },
  "nodes": [
    { "id": "tickets", "request": { "method": "GET", "endpoint": "https://support.example.com/api/tickets?status=open", "credential_id": "YOUR_HELPDESK_TOKEN_ID" } },
    { "id": "lines", "transform": { "template": "{ \"count\": \"{{ $.tickets.length }}\", \"lines\": { \"{{#each $.tickets}}\": \"#{{ $.id }} {{ $.subject }} ({{ $.priority }})\" } }" } },
    { "id": "email", "sendgrid_send_email": {
        "credential_id": "YOUR_SENDGRID_KEY_ID",
        "from": "support@acme.com",
        "to": "support-team@acme.com",
        "subject": "{{ $.count }} open tickets",
        "text": "{{ join($.lines, \"\\n\") }}" } }
  ]
}

Set up

Verify a sender or domain in SendGrid, create an API key with Mail Send access, and save it as a bearer_token credential.

Reference

Send an email with SendGrid: sendgrid_send_email

Sends POST https://api.sendgrid.com/v3/mail/send. Output for the next step: Nothing: SendGrid answers 202 with an empty body.

Field Type Notes
credential_id string, required The id of a bearer_token credential holding a SendGrid API key (SG.…).
from string, required The sender address, on a domain verified with SendGrid. Placeholders allowed.
from_name string Shown with the address, as "Name ". Placeholders allowed.
to string, required The recipient address. Placeholders allowed.
subject string, required Up to 998 characters. Placeholders allowed.
text string, required Plain text, up to 40,000 characters. Placeholders allowed.