checkgmail.py -- GMail Command Line
Hey Hey,
Since this forum hasn't been used in a while, it's time to use it again... here's my lastest bit of playing around... a small simple implementation of libgmail from http://libgmail.sourceforge.net/.
Of course you'll need to go there and download libgmail and have it available to the script...
Here's the code
Code:
#!/usr/bin/python
'''
Name: checkgmail.py
Created by: HTRegz (ht@computerdefense.org)
Date Created: April 27th, 2006
Functional Spec: Provide command line access to gmail. Details and examples @ www.computerdefense.org)
'''
import libgmail, sys, getopt, getpass
def parseArgs():
try:
opts, args = getopt.getopt(sys.argv[1:], "aruhL:F:RSCQ:N:U:P:")
except getopt.GetoptError:
showHelp()
global password
global type
global label
global showMsg
global address
global showSubject
global showCount
global query
global displayCount
global username
password = None
type = "UNREAD"
label = "inbox"
showMsg = False
address = None
showSubject = False
showCount = False
query = None
username = None
displayCount = None
for o, a in opts:
if ( o == "-a" ):
type = "ALL"
elif ( o == "-u" ):
type = "UNREAD"
elif ( o == "-r" ):
type = "READ"
if ( o == "-L" ):
label = a
if ( o == "-F"):
address = a
if ( o == "-R" ):
showMsg = True
if ( o == "-S" ):
showSubject = True
if ( o == "-C" ):
showCount = True
if ( o == "-Q" ):
query = a
if ( o == "-U" ):
username = a
if ( o == "-P" ):
password = a
if ( o == "-N" ):
displayCount = a
if (o == "-h" ):
showHelp()
def showHelp():
print "Usage: "+ sys.argv[0] + " <option> <parameters>"
print "\n"
print "Options:"
print "-a All messages"
print "-r Only read messages"
print "-u Only unread messages"
print "-h Display this help message"
print "Parameters:"
print "-L <label> Search only in a specific label (default: inbox)"
print " Use ALL to search all folders"
print "-F <address> Only messages from a specific address"
print "-R Read the messages (display message content)"
print "-S Return the subject lines"
print "-C Display a message count"
print "-Q <query> Run the specified query (search)"
print "-N Number of messages to return (default: ALL)"
print "-U <username> GMail username"
print "-P <password> GMail Password (default: prompt)"
sys.exit()
if __name__ == "__main__":
parseArgs()
if ( username == None ):
username = raw_input("Username: ")
if ( password == None ):
password = getpass.getpass("Password: ")
ga = libgmail.GmailAccount(username, password)
try:
ga.login()
except libgmail.GmailLoginFailure:
print "Login Failure: Unknown username/password."
sys.exit()
if ( type == "ALL" ):
search = ""
elif ( type == "READ" ):
search = "is: read "
else:
search = "is: unread "
if ( address != None ):
search += "from: " + address + " "
if ( label != None ):
search += "in: "+ label + " "
if ( query != None ):
search += query + " "
tmp = ga.getMessagesByQuery(search, "allPages")
counter = 0
for thread in tmp:
for msg in thread:
counter += 1
if ( showSubject == True ):
print msg.subject
if ( showMsg == True ):
print msg.source
if ( counter == displayCount ):
break
if ( counter == displayCount ):
break
if ( showCount == True ):
print counter
You can find some examples and more information on my blog post related to it, I'll also have follow up examples in the next couple days.. -- http://www.computerdefense.org/?p=54
Peace,
HT
