How to get Google Form submission data using Gmail Trigger node in n8n?

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Describe the problem/error/question

I’m trying to automate a workflow where I want to get Google Form submission data directly when a form is submitted.

Here’s what I’ve tried so far:

I’m using a Gmail Trigger node to catch the Google Form notification email.

The Gmail node output gives me only the email headers and body, for example:

{
  "Subject": "Your form, Input Data, has new responses.",
  "From": "Google Forms <[email protected]>",
  "To": "[email protected]",
  "Body": "Form submitted: https://forms.gle/xyz..."
}

I don’t see the actual form field values (namedValues) in the node output.

What is the error message (if any)?

Please share your workflow

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Share the output returned by the last node

Information on your n8n setup

  • n8n version:
    1.106.3
  • Database (default: SQLite):
  • n8n EXECUTIONS_PROCESS setting (default: own, main):
  • Running n8n via (Docker, npm, n8n cloud, desktop app):
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Hey there !

This is a limitation of the notification email: it does not contain the actual form responses in a structured, machine-readable format, but rather a summary or a link to the response.

The Gmail Trigger node will only give you the email content, not structured form data.

For structured data, connect your Google Form to a Google Sheet and use n8n to poll the sheet for new submissions.

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