Create Gmail Draft

gmail_draft.py

"""
# Draft Email on you Gmail Account
## Author: Sohaib Anwaaar

### Description:
Create Email Draft in your gmail account


### Create Credentials.json

To create your Credentials.json file for accessing Google APIs, follow these steps:

1. Sign in to your Google account.
2. Navigate to the Google Cloud Console by clicking on this link: [Google Cloud Console](https://console.cloud.google.com/apis/credentials?project=hardy-unison-378922)
3. Click on the "Create credentials" button.
4. Select "OAuth client ID" from the dropdown menu.
5. Choose "Desktop app" as the application type.
6. Click on the "Create" button to generate your OAuth 2.0 client ID.
7. Your Credentials.json file will be automatically downloaded.
8. Save the downloaded file to your project directory.

Now you can use the Credentials.json file to authenticate your application and access Google APIs.
"""

import os
import pickle
import base64
from google_auth_oauthlib.flow import InstalledAppFlow
from google.auth.transport.requests import Request
from googleapiclient.discovery import build

# If modifying these scopes, delete the file token.pickle.
SCOPES = ['https://www.googleapis.com/auth/gmail.compose']

def main():
    """
    Main function to create a draft email using the Gmail API.
    """
    creds = None
    # Load or refresh user credentials
    if os.path.exists('token.pickle'):
        with open('token.pickle', 'rb') as token:
            creds = pickle.load(token)
    if not creds or not creds.valid:
        if creds and creds.expired and creds.refresh_token:
            creds.refresh(Request())
        else:
            flow = InstalledAppFlow.from_client_secrets_file('credentials.json', SCOPES)
            creds = flow.run_console()
        with open('token.pickle', 'wb') as token:
            pickle.dump(creds, token)
    # Build the Gmail service
    service = build('gmail', 'v1', credentials=creds)
    # Define the email message content
    email_content = """
    From: [email protected]
    To: [email protected]
    Subject: Subject line here

    Email body here.
    """
    # Create a draft email
    create_draft(service, 'me', email_content)

def create_draft(service, user_id, message_body):
    """
    Create a draft email.

    Args:
        service: Gmail service instance.
        user_id: User ID.
        message_body: Content of the email message.
    """
    # Encode the email content in Base64 format
    encoded_content = base64.urlsafe_b64encode(message_body.encode()).decode()
    # Define the draft message
    message = {'message': {'raw': encoded_content}}
    # Create the draft
    draft = service.users().drafts().create(userId=user_id, body=message).execute()
    print('Draft created: %s' % draft['id'])

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()