Quick script written for reading our many company email for stock status updates from Kidkraft and then downloading the attached xlsx file for processing

getstockfile.py

#!/usr/bin/env python

import email
import imaplib
import os
import sys

detach_dir = '.' # directory where to save attachments (default: current)

files = os.listdir('.')

for f in files:
    if os.path.splitext(f)[1] == '.xlsx':
        print("Removing: %s" % f)
        os.remove(f)

user = 'USER'
pwd = 'PASS'

# connecting to the gmail imap server
m = imaplib.IMAP4_SSL("imap.gmail.com")
m.login(user,pwd)
m.select()

resp, items = m.search(None, '(HEADER Subject "Stock Status")') #Search for  "Stcok Status" in the subject
items = items[0].split() 
items.reverse() # Get the latest first
items = items[:1]

for emailid in items:
    resp, data = m.fetch(emailid, "(RFC822)")
    email_body = data[0][1]
    mail = email.message_from_string(email_body)

    #Check if any attachments at all
    if mail.get_content_maintype() != 'multipart':
        print 'No attachment'
        continue

print "["+mail["From"]+"] :" + mail["Subject"]

for part in mail.walk():
    if part.get_content_maintype() == 'multipart':
        continue

    # part an attachment ?
    if part.get('Content-Disposition') is None:
        continue

filename = part.get_filename()
counter = 1

# if there is no filename, we create one with a counter to avoid duplicates
if not filename:
    filename = 'stock-%03d%s' % (counter, 'update')
    counter += 1

att_path = os.path.join(detach_dir, filename)

#Check if its already there
if not os.path.isfile(att_path) :
    fp = open(att_path, 'wb')
    fp.write(part.get_payload(decode=True))
    fp.close()