Using Gmail API, how can I retrieve the subject of an email?
I see it in the raw file but it\'s qui cumbersome to retrieve it, and I am sure there should be a way t
Since this was the question I landed on, I just wanted to share what I found to solve my own issue.
I am used to work with the email
module that gives you a neat interface to interact with messages. In order to parse the message that the gmail api gives you, the following worked for me:
import email
import base64
messageraw = service.users().messages().get(
userId="me",
id=emails["id"],
format="raw",
metadataHeaders=None
).execute()
email_message = email.message_from_bytes(
base64.urlsafe_b64decode(messageraw['raw'])
)
You end up with an email.Message
object and can access the metadata like email_message['from']
.