Flow that emails a notification?

[Shreyh13]

How would I be able to create a flow that emails me the text of a notification? Like for example I get a breaking news notification from CNN and I would like it to be emailed to me.

[BoBo]

Wouldn't it make sense to take one of those billions of RSS readers instead??

CNN RSS Feeds

[Martin]

Hi,

A flow like this should work:
-trigger Notification on Statusbar Displayed: com.whatsapp (or some other apps)
-action Mail with Gmail

Depending on Android version you have to enable the Automagic accessibility service or the notification detector to make the trigger work. There should be a blue label in the trigger that takes you to the appropriate setting screen when clicked.

The trigger makes available variables containing the title of the notification and the text (and the big text on Android 4.1+).
You could use the following text in the body-field of the mail action:

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{title}
{notification_text}
{notification_text_big}

Automagic will replace the variables with the real content of the notification when the action is executed.

Many notifications contain more or less the same text in variable notification_text and notification_text_big so you might get part of the text duplicated in the mail.
The help page of the trigger lists some more variables that might be interesting. You can open the help page by pressing the [?]-icon when editing the trigger.

Regards,
Martin

[Shreyh13]

Worked perfectly thanks!