Using Gmail's API To Search & Display Emails Using Python

It took me a painful couple of days to figure out how to properly use Gmail's API to do tasks that seem pretty simple like searching for messages by subject and getting the message body. So I thought I'd share the process for this. We will do this in Python because Python is fun :)

Let me know if you have any questions in the comments below.

[lovecoco]

After what seems ages of digging, this video helped me to finally work things out. Thank you!

[championssoftware]

Thanks for your helpful video, good to see that I am not the only person who makes errors. Many Thanks

[quentinfitzgerald]

Excellent - I could never have worked that out and have been searching youtube for weeks- this is the only video I could find that makes sense.

[zjhabib]

Dude this is the exact demo video i needed! Thank you so much!! (i'm actually starting a company out of my garage and this helps out a lot with getting the starter code needed for my data science. Also taught me a lot of pointers I would have had to figure out on my own.

[Jennyfuz]

You literally SAVED me with this video!! you are 100 percent right, the google API documentation is NOT very friendly. Thank you so much for making this content, I look forward to seeing more of your videos <3

[tomchambers]

Norman great presentation... and thank u so much for the code.... Several others have done a similar tutorial but NOT ONE has provided the code.. Super thank you.

[gautamgoel]

Thank you sir, I would play a major role, in my future mega project.

[ankitpatel]

Bro,
your code and way of explanation is super helpful. stuck with this since long.

[saishubhamray]

Thanks Man! It helped me a Lot. After ages of digging. I am very much grateful to you

[MrRahul]

Thank you very much for showing errors too.
It gives me better insight about the api.
The best video on Gmail api and the quite comprehensive.
👍

[mukil_saravanan]

Thanks for teaching us.
It really helps 😊

[Nitsujcm]

Super helpful; Google should hire you to update the documentation.

[fatrushaikh]

one that most liked about this video is your mistakes, because it was like i am doing on my system. with your mistakes i am learning a lot. otherwise correct code would not gave me practical way of doing it. Thanks record all those mistakes as well
thank you

[kabileshg]

thanks a lot man! you saved me a lot of time

[nana-zheh]

is it possible to set the messages' label from unread to read if the program has gone through it? awesome tutorial btw!

[michaeltuccillo]

Very helpful. Is there a way to add the date of the Gmail to the search criteria?

[decodingmachines]

Hi Norman, thanks for your time in putting this video, It was really great .I can able to take the body of the mail and I also need the time when it was sent(for eg :at what time and day the mail was sent), can you help me in this? Thank You

[Benetheburrito]

good video, really appreciate the help as I have been struggling with this for a while
I have a few suggestions though



1. Please upload the code somewhere so we can modify it
2. The video is a little bit unorganized, but it is still enjoyable to watch. Consider cleaning up your thoughts a little and the video will improve drastically


Again, thanks so much for the tutorial, and good luck to your youtube career

[godsonUnderscoreY]

Your error is due to the except clause. Great video

[harpritkaur-]

Hey Norman, Great video! I was stuck at trying to reply to a specific mail using the API. Have you figured that out by any chance?