Turn booking confirmation emails into calendar events
An n8n workflow extracts details from booking emails and PDF attachments and creates calendar events in a dedicated calendar, built for a CEO's flooded inbox.
Done withn8n
- What they did
- The workflow watches Gmail for emails a person labels "Events," then extracts date, time, location, confirmation number, vendor, and notes from the email body plus any PDF attachments. In n8n, the email body is first wrapped into a PDF, both sources are parsed in parallel through one extractor pipeline, the results are merged with attachment data taking priority, and the workflow either creates an event in a separate Google Calendar with a link back to the email or flags the message for review and sends a missing-fields notification.
- How it went
- It was built for a CEO whose inbox was full of travel and booking confirmations, so the result was automatic event creation in a dedicated "Auto-imported" calendar instead of manual entry. The author says it does not yet have a dedicated step for confirmations containing multiple events in one message.
- Worth knowing
- The main catch is that a human still has to label the Gmail message "Events" to trigger the workflow.
Try it yourself with n8n
Build an n8n workflow that watches my Gmail inbox for booking confirmation emails (flights, hotels, restaurants, [other types]). Extract the event name, date, time, location, and confirmation number from the email body or PDF attachment, then create an event in a dedicated Google Calendar called [calendar name]. It is done when a test confirmation email I forward shows up correctly as a calendar event; skip anything it can't parse and notify me instead of guessing.
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Source: Reddit · May 13, 2026
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