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Good Day,

Here is what I am trying to accomplish.

1. Send an email with a specific subject such as API Ping and in the body of that email enter an ip address such as 8.8.8.8

2. Then flow reads that email and does an api query to https://api.hackertarget.com/nping/?q=8.8.8.8

3. The response is then sent via email back to the person who sent the original email.

The problem I am having is in the http action. The action reads the dynamic content as HTML. The api query occurs it can't interrupt the html, as it is looking for an ip address such as 8.8.8.8

Pictures below show what I have setup ( removed email addresses) and what the return results look like directly from the api.

example api query to hackertarget.png

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Hi @Anonymous,

Because the Body is the HTML format, it can't be used in the HTTP request. If you want to get the Email body for plain text, you can use the Body Preview instead:

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@Anonymous

Hi there. If the IP address is the only thing in the body, then you might want to try adding the step "HTML to Text" after the email, but before your HTTP call. That should work.

Keep us posted.

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