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segue_segway
segue_segway

Reputation: 1518

Grabbing message body with Gmail API

Whenever I make a test request via API explorer (https://developers.google.com/apis-explorer/#p/gmail/v1/gmail.users.messages.get?) I get a payload that contains numerous body tags in the JSON output. I need to grab the body tag that represents the text of the message body and nothing else. How do I know, in each response, which body tag that is?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 3650

Answers (2)

Tholle
Tholle

Reputation: 112897

You can check the mimeType of the parts in the payload for a part with type text/html or text/plain:

var response = {
 "payload": {
  "parts": [
   {
    "mimeType": "multipart/alternative",
    "filename": "",
    "headers": [
     {
      "name": "Content-Type",
      "value": "multipart/alternative; boundary=001a1142e23c551e8e05200b4be0"
     }
    ],
    "body": {
     "size": 0
    },
    "parts": [
     {
      "partId": "0.0",
      "mimeType": "text/plain",
      "filename": "",
      "headers": [
       {
        "name": "Content-Type",
        "value": "text/plain; charset=UTF-8"
       }
      ],
      "body": {
       "size": 9,
       "data": "V293IG1hbg0K"
      }
     },
     {
      "partId": "0.1",
      "mimeType": "text/html",
      "filename": "",
      "headers": [
       {
        "name": "Content-Type",
        "value": "text/html; charset=UTF-8"
       }
      ],
      "body": {
       "size": 30,
       "data": "PGRpdiBkaXI9Imx0ciI-V293IG1hbjwvZGl2Pg0K"
      }
     }
    ]
   },
   {
    "partId": "1",
    "mimeType": "image/jpeg",
    "filename": "feelthebern.jpg",
    "headers": [
     {
      "name": "Content-Type",
      "value": "image/jpeg; name=\"feelthebern.jpg\""
     },
     {
      "name": "Content-Disposition",
      "value": "attachment; filename=\"feelthebern.jpg\""
     },
     {
      "name": "Content-Transfer-Encoding",
      "value": "base64"
     },
     {
      "name": "X-Attachment-Id",
      "value": "f_ieq3ev0i0"
     }
    ],
    "body": {
     "attachmentId": "ANGjdJ_2xG3WOiLh6MbUdYy4vo2VhV2kOso5AyuJW3333rbmk8BIE1GJHIOXkNIVGiphP3fGe7iuIl_MGzXBGNGvNslwlz8hOkvJZg2DaasVZsdVFT_5JGvJOLefgaSL4hqKJgtzOZG9K1XSMrRQAtz2V0NX7puPdXDU4gvalSuMRGwBhr_oDSfx2xljHEbGG6I4VLeLZfrzGGKW7BF-GO_FUxzJR8SizRYqIhgZNA6PfRGyOhf1s7bAPNW3M9KqWRgaK07WTOYl7DzW4hpNBPA4jrl7tgsssExHpfviFL7yL52lxsmbsiLe81Z5UoM",
     "size": 100446
    }
   }
  ]
 }
};

function decode(string) {
  return decodeURIComponent(escape(atob(string.replace(/\-/g, '+').replace(/\_/g, '/'))));
}

function getText(response) {
  var result = '';
  // In e.g. a plain text message, the payload is the only part.
  var parts = [response.payload];

  while (parts.length) {
    var part = parts.shift();
    if (part.parts) {
      parts = parts.concat(part.parts);
    }
    if (part.mimeType === 'text/plain') {
      // Continue to look for a 'text/html' part.
      result = decode(part.body.data);
    } else if (part.mimeType === 'text/html') {
      // 'text/html' part found. No need to continue.
      result = decode(part.body.data);
      break;
    }
  }
  
  return result;
}


var text = getText(response);
console.log(text);

Upvotes: 2

Karl Amort
Karl Amort

Reputation: 16394

They all are. A MIME multipart message contains multiple bodies. how to convert it to what you consider a "standard" representation depends. Sometimes the parts are alternatives (i. e. HTML vs. txt) and you can pick one. It could also be a file attachment, a signature, etc.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIME#Multipart_messages for details on the format.

Upvotes: 0

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