Show HN: Python library to read and manage your Gmail

by charlierguo • 13 years ago

158 29 13 years ago

spindritf• 13 years ago

You can also retrieve the password from your system keyring[1]

    import keyring

    pass_is = keyring.get_password('gmail', 'whatever@gmail.com')

you set it with

    set_password(servicename, username, password)

    set_password('gmail', 'whatever@gmail.com', 'one of those per app passwords if you use 2factor for example')

[1] https://pypi.python.org/pypi/keyring

codezero• 13 years ago

That's amazing, I never knew this existed, thanks!

grinich• 13 years ago

Even better, use oauth2 tokens instead of your username/password.

Here's a script to generate them: https://google-mail-oauth2-tools.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/py...

kbar13• 13 years ago

Cool!

If you're looking for non-gmail-specific email lib thingerator, check out IMAPClient (it's better than imaplib I swear!):

http://imapclient.readthedocs.org/en/latest/

mcrittenden• 13 years ago

This is great.

For the record, if you just need to do some simple scripting of your Gmail, maybe on cron, Google Apps Script is great for that. https://developers.google.com/apps-script/

Here's a recent simple example I wrote up. http://mikecr.it/ramblings/marking-gmail-read-with-apps-scri...

arms• 13 years ago

Thank you for sharing this. I've been very interested in building my own Gmail client the past few weeks, and this looks like a nice starting point.

knes• 13 years ago

Didn't know the Ruby one existed, thanks for that!

txsl3• 13 years ago

My experience of the Ruby client referenced was that it was a little out of date. I was seeing errors when trying to use it a couple of weeks ago.

matt_• 13 years ago

there are two ruby gems for Gmail, which did you use?

tejasbubane• 13 years ago

I am using the Gmail gem (https://github.com/nu7hatch/gmail) in couple of my rails projects and it works perfect. Every single mail is delivered.

maskedinvader• 13 years ago

thank you for this. I was looking for something like this for a project I was working on

charlierguo2• 13 years ago

I built it because of a project I was working on :). Feel free to create an issue if you need some new features or have use cases that aren't covered.

ibudiallo• 13 years ago

Thank you, this is really useful.

Just when I needed it and wanted to write one you posted it. I don't think I would have done half the good job you did.

charlierguo2• 13 years ago

Thanks! I was working on a side project that needed to access my GMail, and I couldn't believe that a good library didn't exist already. If you find any bugs or use cases that aren't covered well, file an issue or make a contribution!

kudu• 13 years ago

This looks pretty nice. It's really too bad that it works with a Google service.

mkesper• 13 years ago

Right, who still wants to share their data with Google?

duvander• 13 years ago

I really wish the username/password option wasn't supported. What use cases aren't possible with OAuth?

hatchoo• 13 years ago

This is great. Thank you for sharing.

I've been planning to create a Python script to help me automatically label my older emails based on content. This is a big help.

deepGem• 13 years ago

Guess I can potentially use this as a module in a tornado/Django web application for scheduling email, without having the user to sign in to gmail explicitly or opening up a separate pop-up/browser window.

superchink2• 13 years ago

Slightly off topic, but does anyone know of a similar library for Google Calendar that's any good?

astrada• 13 years ago

There is the official Google APIs Client Library for Python (https://developers.google.com/google-apps/calendar/downloads). You can even test the RESTful API online using the Google APIs Explorer (https://developers.google.com/apis-explorer/#p/calendar/v3/).

superchink2• 13 years ago

I knew about that. Maybe I just want a good example application to use as a reference…

eliasmacpherson• 13 years ago

This is really cool. The only thing I use gmail web interface for since I moved to mutt and IMAP, is forwarding already sent emails with large attachments to new addresses. They way I have mutt set up is that it downloads the attachment first and then sends it once per recipient. The web interface just sends it, so I wonder is there a way to duplicate that functionality with mutt or with a library like this.

ajaxaddicted• 13 years ago

There is also Imbox https://github.com/martinrusev/imbox, which is a Python library for reading all kinds of IMAP mailboxes, not just Gmail

AnSavvides• 13 years ago

Very cool - I am sure a lot of people will get good use out of it. Rather surprised nothing like this already existed.

bussiere• 13 years ago

how to get the attachment files ? i didn't see anyhting in the doc about it ... Are they in the body ?

giis• 13 years ago

interesting,will try it.

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