A Pythonic interface to Google's GMail, with all the tools you'll need. Search,
read and send multipart emails, archive, mark as read/unread, delete emails,
and manage labels.
Heavily inspired by Kriss "nu7hatch" Kowalik's GMail for Ruby library
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A Pythonic interface to Google's GMail, with all the tools you'll need. Search, read and send multipart emails, archive, mark as read/unread, delete emails, and manage labels.
This library is still under development, so please forgive some of the rough edges
Heavily inspired by Kriss "nu7hatch" Kowalik's GMail for Ruby library
For now, installation is manual (pip support not yet implemented) and the only requirement is to use Python 2 (2.7+ to be precise):
git clone git://github.com/charlierguo/gmail.git
To start, import the gmail library.
import gmail
To easily get up and running:
import gmail
g = gmail.login(username, password)
Which will automatically log you into a GMail account. This is actually a shortcut for creating a new Gmail object:
from gmail import Gmail
g = Gmail()
g.login(username, password)
# play with your gmail...
g.logout()
You can also check if you are logged in at any time:
g = gmail.login(username, password)
g.logged_in # Should be True, AuthenticationError if login fails
If you have already received an OAuth2 access token from Google for a given user, you can easily log the user in. (Because OAuth 1.0 usage was deprecated in April 2012, this library does not currently support its usage)
gmail = gmail.authenticate(username, access_token)
Get all messages in your inbox:
g.inbox().mail()
Get messages that fit some criteria:
g.inbox().mail(after=datetime.date(2013, 6, 18), before=datetime.date(2013, 8, 3))
g.inbox().mail(on=datetime.date(2009, 1, 1)
g.inbox().mail(sender="myfriend@gmail.com") # "from" is reserved, use "fr" or "sender"
g.inbox().mail(to="directlytome@gmail.com")
Combine flags and options:
g.inbox().mail(unread=True, sender="myboss@gmail.com")
Browsing labeled emails is similar to working with your inbox.
g.mailbox('Urgent').mail()
Every message in a conversation/thread will come as a separate message.
g.inbox().mail(unread=True, before=datetime.date(2013, 8, 3) sender="myboss@gmail.com")
Important: calls to mail() will return a list of empty email messages (with unique IDs). To work with labels, headers, subjects, and bodies, call fetch() on an individual message. You can call mail with prefetch=True, which will fetch the bodies automatically.
unread = g.inbox().mail(unread=True)
print unread[0].body
# None
unread[0].fetch()
print unread[0].body
# Dear ...,
Mark news past a certain date as read and archive it:
emails = g.inbox().mail(before=datetime.date(2013, 4, 18), sender="news@nbcnews.com")
for email in emails:
email.read() # can also unread(), delete(), spam(), or star()
email.archive()
Delete all emails from a certain person:
emails = g.inbox().mail(sender="junkmail@gmail.com")
for email in emails:
email.delete()
You can use also label method instead of mailbox:
g.label("Faxes").mail()
Add a label to a message:
email.add_label("Faxes")
Download message attachments:
for attachment in email.attachments:
print 'Saving attachment: ' + attachment.name
print 'Size: ' + str(attachment.size) + ' KB'
attachment.save('attachments/' + attachment.name)
There is also few shortcuts to mark messages quickly:
email.read()
email.unread()
email.spam()
email.star()
email.unstar()
See LICENSE for details.
*Note that all licence references and agreements mentioned in the gmail README section above
are relevant to that project's source code only.
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