Show HN: Python library to read and manage your Gmail

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

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...

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/

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 ?

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

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

interesting,will try it.