Automate newsletter: sending information from a github through drip

[discombobulateme]

Elemental Selenium used Drip as a service to send the newsletter. However, Drip is not connected with the main repository.

• Create a Drip free test account
• Fetch data from Elemental Bromine and send one tip as a newsletter to our test email: elementalbromine2023@gmail.com

[daniellemadry]

I created a free drip account, regarding fetching the data do I import it from GitHub or do it manually?

[discombobulateme]

We need to figure out a way to automate this proces... probably using Drip API, if thats a thing.
This is what we need to know.
Doing that manually makes no sense, but this is what it had been done in the past.

First iteration would be:

1. fetching a markdown file from a repository and transforming it into a drip variable (like {{address}} {{name}}
2. using this variable to compose a workflow
3. send it to an email group (in this test scenario elementalbromine email)

Second iteration would be:

1. fetching data from Docusaurus structure, which may change a little bit

Please let us know about your findings. If it is not possible with Drip, we may want to consider either building from scretch or using a service that has GitHub integration.

[discombobulateme]

@daniellemadry I have some breadcrumbs from the Drip support team:

• "you may be able to update a custom field in Drip based on the github repository and then utilize those fields in Drip"
• Apparently there's no direct integration, but there's a Zappier integration o_O https://zapier.com/apps/github/integrations/drip

[daniellemadry]

-with Zapier, thats another tool to add to our toolbox but I'm not sure if it will be the most efficient. Can we use Mailchimp or a different platform with direct integration?

-- I also tried to update the field with github when I first made the account but I was unsuccessful