Batch fetching messages performance

Question

I need to get the last 100 messages in the INBOX (headers only). For that I\'m currently using the IMAP extension to search and then fetch the messages. This is done with two re

Answer 1

here is the python version, using the official google api client. Note that I did not use the callback here, because I need to handle the responses in a synchronous way.

from apiclient.http import BatchHttpRequest
import json

batch = BatchHttpRequest()

#assume we got messages from Gmail query API
for message in messages:
    batch.add(service.users().messages().get(userId='me', id=message['id'],
                                             format='raw'))
for request_id in batch._order:
    resp, content = batch._responses[request_id]
    message = json.loads(content)
    #handle your message here, like a regular email object