Help Needed: Filtering HTML Elements and Managing Text Overload in Google Docs

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What are you trying to achieve?

hello guys, i hope some solution for my issues

I have set up a Make.com scenario to automate the retrieval and processing of newsletters in order to extract the most relevant financial news.
The scenario works as follows:

1Retrieves the 10 latest emails from Outlook (ID: 35).
2. Converts the HTML content into plain text using HTML to Text (ID: 33).
3. Aggregates the cleaned emails using Text Aggregator (ID: 37).
4. Processes the aggregated content with Gemini AI (ID: 14) to extract the 4 most relevant news items related to finance, wealth management, and investment.
5. Stores the final results in the same Google Docs file (ID: 34).

Problem Encountered

  1. HTML Elements Not Fully Removed
  • Despite using the HTML to Text module, some images and links remain in the text. This makes the final content cluttered and difficult to read.
  • Is there a better way to fully remove all HTML elements while keeping the text clean?
  1. Overlapping Text in Google Docs
  • All emails are stored in one Google Docs file, and once sent to Gemini, the AI-generated summary is also stored in the same document.
  • This results in a mix of raw emails and AI-generated content, making the document overloaded with text and links.
  • How can I structure the output to separate raw emails from the final Gemini summary more effectively?

What I need help with

  • A better way to filter out all unnecessary HTML elements before processing the text.
  • A method to organize the document structure so the email content and Gemini’s generated summaries do not mix in the same document.
  • Any alternative approaches that have worked for similar automation workflows.

Screenshots

scenario:

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Html to text :
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Text agragator :
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Thanks in advance for your help! :folded_hands:

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