Show HN: Python library to read and manage your Gmail (github.com)

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)

so

    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

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/

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...

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

interesting,will try it.

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