Send An Email With Gmail Using Service Account In Python (Gmail API)

In general, when we need to automate Gmail tasks, we need to go through the OAuth2 protocol to authenticate an account (still the best approach on behalf of a user), and going through the authentication can be a bit annoying and troublesome if you want to have a truly automate workflow for Gmail related tasks. Fortunately, by using a Service Account we can skip the verification process.

In this tutorial, I will show you how to send an email using Gmail with a Google Service Account in Python.

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[bee_dmytro]

Tell me please what should I do if I want to get emails from my own gmail? I do not have google admin. But service account does not have access to my gmail, I do not know how give it to him.

[productivetarik]

Thank you for the thorough clarification. I've successfully configured domain-wide delegation, yet I'm encountering the error 'Precondition check failed.' It appears that there might be a delay in being able to impersonate users. Could this be the cause, or is there another issue at play?

[danielleivy]

I see some comments about using regular gmail. To my knowledge Google took that bit away. You can no longer "allow third party access" and need an actual workspace account to do this.

[shekhar]

The code link is not there in description text ?

[sheepay]

Man Google's docs are absolutely terrible

[elricho]

Great video, Could you make an example to see how to list the users of the google admin directory, I follow all your steps, I enable the scopes but I always get an access error, even though I have access to the account as an administrator, I don't understand what permission is missing, for example this video with the created account if you run it without problems. Thank you.

[hugh_dancy]

hello mr jenn i am unable to follow the part about delegating. is there an extra step to get access to it? i do not know my admin account email and its apparently not the same as the project email?

[caliosd]

thanks for your admin console part in the video. that saves me a lot!

[juniordeveloper]

Currently at the moment Google that's not support third party to send emails with other apps like Pycharm. I have tried multiple times. Can anyone help me

[gamingislife]

Thanks a lot, you explained it really well !

[ericweiss]

Thank you for a very informative video. I apologize in advance for this silly question but I have only been working with python and google API's for a few months, total newbie. I recently created a script with access to google sheets API. I want to include email access within the same script. What is the easiest way to do this? Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated.

[Moist_yet_Crispy]

Hey I love you videos, I've noticed that gmail api has changed a bit since you did this tut, Would you be willing to do another tutorial on gmail api since things have changed. No one else has one and I've tried the other videos as well and keep getting stuck. Thanks in advance!

[Najumulsaqib]

Isnt this supported with normal Gmail accounts that are not on workspace?

[full_bearfull_bear]

What is a "workspace account" ? How do we create one?

[productivetarik]

Thank you for the thorough clarification. I've successfully configured domain-wide delegation, yet I'm encountering the error 'Precondition check failed.' It appears that there might be a delay in being able to impersonate users. Could this be the cause, or is there another issue at play?