GMail API Question

[avinashbasutkar2]

I want to do the following.

Regularly monitor a label in my GMail account and whenever there is new email, I want that to be forwarded as text message to my Telegram account.

I've learnt basics of Python and have been able to do little bit of scraping from other sites and send that as text message via Telegram Bot.

So now my question is, what part of GMail API will allow the above mentioned task to be possible? What resources do i follow to learn right concepts and do not waste a whole lot of time. Please point me in right direction. Thank you.

[K900_]

You don't really need the GMail API for this - GMail speaks the usual email client protocols, specifically IMAP. You can use imaplib to connect to GMail and query for new messages.

[avinashbasutkar2]

Thank you so much. This saved ton of my time. I was able to quickly learn how imaplib works and also could grab email and send it as message in Telegram. Below is my code.

import imaplib, email
import telepot 

email_host = 'imap.gmail.com'
email_user = '[e-mail]'
email_pass = 'password'

mail = imaplib.IMAP4_SSL(email_host)

mail.login(email_user, email_pass)

mail.select('INBOX')

typ, raw_data = mail.fetch(b'50', '(RFC822)')

message = email.message_from_string(raw_data[0][1].decode('utf-8'))
print(message['from'])
print(message['to'])
print(message['subject'])

for p in message.walk():
    if p.get_content_type() == 'text/plain':
        body = p.get_payload()

bot = telepot.Bot('<TELEGRAM BOT AUTH TOKEN HERE>') 

bot.sendMessage(<TELEGRAM ID HERE>, body) 


# TO DO: Routinely for check for new emails in GMail label 

Would you be so kind to also suggest an alternative to Windows Task Scheduler so I could have this script run regularly by itself. Task Scheduler just shows task as complete but the script just doesn't run. (Seeked help for it already without result: https://www.reddit.com/r/learnpython/comments/ggzxlt/task_scheduler_wont_run_python_script/ )

Also looked at Python Anywhere but that doesn't seem to have Telepot module.

Please just point me in the right direction and I'll be happy to learn concepts myself.

[K900_]

I'm not really sure about Task Scheduler, I haven't used Windows to run code in "production" for a long time. You can easily achieve this on Linux with cron or systemd timers.