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Reputation: 81

Is there any way of changing gmail password programmatically using java?

Is there any way of changing gmail password programmatically using java?

Upvotes: 8

Views: 7893

Answers (5)

Andrey Lebedev
Andrey Lebedev

Reputation: 429

Using Google Provisioning API, to change the password, you have to set it to login attribute of UserEntry object:

import sample.appsforyourdomain.AppsForYourDomainClient;
...
AppsForYourDomainClient client = new AppsForYourDomainClient(email, password, domain);
UserEntry user = client.retrieveUser("username");
user.getLogin().setPassword("newpassword");
client.updateUser("username", user);

Upvotes: 0

kjp
kjp

Reputation: 3116

The google provisioning API guide has updateUser method which takes a UserEntry object. You can use it to update the password I suppose, you will have to try it out. Check the javadocs for definition of UserEntry

Upvotes: 2

Jeremy Salwen
Jeremy Salwen

Reputation: 8430

Uh, just use an http client to post this web page: https://www.google.com/accounts/b/0/EditPasswd. Use http://hc.apache.org/httpclient-3.x/ or something similar. You'll need to keep track of cookies properly, so google thinks you are logged in when you load the page. But yeah, obviously it is possible. If your browser can do it, you can do it programmatically through sending http requests. If you want to be double careful, you can use something like tamperdata in firefox to sniff exactly what your browser sends when you request a password change, so you don't miss any silent fields or whatnot.

Upvotes: 0

user710818
user710818

Reputation: 24248

I think yes. You can record all operation with web pages by Selenium, test if all ok, and after export to java code - only problem can arise if Google will use CAPCHA

Upvotes: 0

laher
laher

Reputation: 9110

I would have been very surprised if you could, and it doesn't look like it.

This page shows you the list of settings you can change in the Google Apps "Email Settings API", and change-password isn't there.

http://code.google.com/googleapps/domain/email_settings/developers_guide_protocol.html#GA_email_settings_api_ops

HTH

Upvotes: 0

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