In a previous post we saw how you could access Gmail in NodeJS. In this post we will see how we can access Gmail using Python.
And if you want to send mail using a website other than Gmail, you need to get the corresponding information. Steps to send mail from Gmail account: First of all, “smtplib” library needs to be imported. After that, to create a session, we will be using its instance SMTP to encapsulate an SMTP connection. S = smtplib.SMTP('smtp.gmail.com', 587). Now that you have your SMTP connection set up and authorized your app with Google, you can finally use Python to send email with Gmail. Using the email string we constructed above, and the connected/authenticated server object, you need to call the.sendmail method. Here is the full code, including the methods for closing the connection. Problem is the ip, can only create 1 or 2 on a single ip without using pva, and if your using proxies or just switching your ip via a router (dsl) then you have no idea if someone has used that ip in the pool already to create a gmail with.
Turning on the Gmail api
You first need to enable Gmail api and get the required OAuth credentials from your Google account. The steps which are shown below.
1. Use this wizard to create or select a project in the Google Developers Console and automatically turn on the API. Click Continue, then Go to credentials.
2. On the Add credentials to your project page, click the Cancel button.
3. At the top of the page, select the OAuth consent screen tab. Select an Email address, enter a Product name if not already set, and click the Save button.
4. Select the Credentials tab, click the Create credentials button and select OAuth client ID.
5. Select the application type Other, enter the name “Gmail API Quickstart”, and click the Create button.
6. Click OK to dismiss the resulting dialog.
7. Click the Download JSON button to the right of the client ID.
8. Move this file to your working directory and rename it client_secret.json.
Install the Gmail api Python library.
Once the above process has been done run the following Python file and you will get the list of labels for your Gmail account.
Now to get an actual message from Gmail we will use the following code. The initial authorization code is the same, just the api calls change.
Detailed functions list for accessing the Gmail api is given here.
In this tutorial, you'll see how to read an email from Gmail using Python 3. In order to accomplish the mail reading task, we'll make use of the imaplib Python module. imaplib is a built-in Python module, hence you don't need to install anything. You simply need to import the module.
Source code from this tutorial can be found at GitHub.
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How to Login to Gmail Using Python
You need to enable 'less secure apps' from your Google account. Once that is done you need three things to log in to Gmail using Python. You'll need a mail server, a username, and a password. In this case, since we are trying to login to Gmail, our mail server would be either imap.gmail.com or smtp.gmail.com. If you are trying to read the incoming mail your incoming mail server would be imap.gmail.com and if you are trying to send mail then your outgoing mail server would be smtp.gmail.com. Hence, our mail server is imap.google.com. Username and password are your Gmail username and password. Let's start by writing some code:
In the above code, we have defined our required variables for reading an email from Gmail. We have defined the username and password using which we'll be reading the email and the SMTP server address and port number. Let's use the IMAP module to log in to Gmail using the above credentials.
We just used the IMAP module to connect to the SMTP server over SSL. Using the email address and password defined above we logged into the email account. I would recommend putting the whole code inside a try-catch block so that it makes things easy to debug in case something breaks.
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Once we have logged into the email account, we can select the inbox label to read the email.
Let's move forward and search the emails in the inbox. It would return a list of ids for each email in the account.
Using the first email id and last email id, we'll iterate through the email list and fetch each email's subject and header.
Read Email From Gmail Using Python
Let's iterate through the email and fetch the email with a particular Id. We'll fetch the email using the RFC822 protocol.
Here is the full code for the Python utility to read emails from Gmail:
Wrapping it Up
In this tutorial, we saw how to read an email from Gmail using Python. We used the python module IMAP to implement the email reading task. Have you ever tried to implement email reading using the IMAP module? Have you ever encountered any issues trying to read email? Do let us know your thoughts in the comments below.
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Source code from this tutorial can be found at GitHub.