Reputation: 396
I'm experiencing a strange issue that seems to be inconsistent with google's gmail API:
If you look here, you can see that gmail's representation of an email has keys "snippet" and "id", among others. Here's some code that I use to generate the complete list of all my emails:
response = service.users().messages().list(userId='me').execute()
messageList = []
messageList.extend(response['messages'])
while 'nextPageToken' in response:
pagetoken = response['nextPageToken']
response = service.users().messages().list(userId='me', pageToken=pagetoken).execute()
messageList.extend(response['messages'])
for message in messageList:
if 'snippet' in message:
print(message['snippet'])
else:
print("FALSE")
The code works!... Except for the fact that I get output "FALSE" for every single one of the emails. 'snippet' doesn't exist! However, if I run the same code with "id" instead of snippet, I get a whole bunch of ids!
I decided to just print out the 'message' objects/dicts themselves, and each one only had an "id" and a "threadId", even though the API claims there should be more in the object... What gives?
Thanks for your help!
Upvotes: 0
Views: 201
Reputation: 396
As @jedwards said in his comment, just because a message 'can' contain all of the fields specified in documentation, doesn't mean it will. 'list' provides the bare minimum amount of information for each message, because it provides a lot of messages and wants to be as lazy as possible. For individual messages that I want to know more about, I'd then use 'messages.get' with the id that I got from 'list'.
Running get for each email in your inbox seems very expensive, but to my knowledge there's no way to run a batch 'get' command.
Upvotes: 1