wrote this to parse my ingress portal submissions from my gmail box. It is not the prettiest thing in the world but does the task I need it to. This may be useful in implementing your own solution.

ingressmail.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
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#  ingressmail.py
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#  Copyright 2014 James Finstrom <jfinstrom at gmail.com>
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####BEGIN USER  EDITS ####
# I sort my ingress emails under 3 labels this script uses those labels:
approvedLabel = 'portalAproved'
submitLabel = 'portalSubmitions'
rejectLabel = 'portalRejected'
#Gmail credentials
login = '[email protected]'
passw = 'password'
#db info, a table called portals will be created. 
dbhost = 'localhost'
dbuser = 'ingressdb'
dbpass = 'ingresspass'
dbname = 'ingress'

####END USER EDITS####

import imaplib
import email
import quopri
import re
import MySQLdb as mdb
import sys
from PIL import Image
from StringIO import StringIO
import requests
from datetime import datetime


con = mdb.connect(dbhost, dbuser, dbpass, dbname)
with con:
    
    cur = con.cursor()
    cur.execute("DROP TABLE IF EXISTS portals")
    cur.execute("CREATE TABLE portals(Id VARCHAR(16) PRIMARY KEY, Name VARCHAR(60), coords VARCHAR(25), ddate DATE, adate DATE, status VARCHAR(25))")

mail = imaplib.IMAP4_SSL('imap.gmail.com')
mail.login(login, passw)

def hash_img(i):
	im = Image.open(i)
	im = im.resize((8, 8), Image.ANTIALIAS)
	im = im.convert("L")
	pixels = list(im.getdata())
	avg = sum(pixels) / len(pixels)
	bits = "".join(map(lambda pixel: '1' if pixel < avg else '0', pixels))  
	hexval = int(bits, 2).__format__('016x').upper()
	return hexval

def portal_reject(em):
	email_message = email.message_from_string(em[1])
	#con = mdb.connect('localhost', 'ingressdb', '', 'ingress')
	dd = email.utils.parsedate(email_message['Date'])
	ddate = '%s-%s-%s' % (dd[0],dd[1],dd[2])
	try:
		msg = email_message.get_payload()[1]._payload
	except:
		return 0
	msgtxt = quopri.decodestring(msg)
	images = re.findall('(http[s]?://lh[0-9]\..*)\" alt', msgtxt)
	if images:
		r = requests.get(images[0])
		ihash = hash_img(StringIO(r.content))
		print "marking %s as Rejected" % (ihash)
		with con:
			cur = con.cursor()
			cur.execute('UPDATE portals set adate="%s", status="REJECTED" WHERE Id= "%s"' % (ddate,ihash))
def process_submit(em):
	email_message = email.message_from_string(em[1])
	#con = mdb.connect('localhost', 'ingressdb', '', 'ingress')
	subj = email_message['Subject']
	dd = email.utils.parsedate(email_message['Date'])
	ddate = '%s-%s-%s' % (dd[0],dd[1],dd[2])
	pname = re.findall('Ingress Portal Submitted: (.*)', subj)
	if pname:
		pda = con.escape_string(pname[0])
	else:
		pda = NONE
	try:
		msg = email_message.get_payload()[1]._payload
	except:
		return 0
	msgtxt = quopri.decodestring(msg)
	images = re.findall('(http://lh[0-9]\..*)\" alt', msgtxt)
	if images:
		r = requests.get(images[0])
		ihash = hash_img(StringIO(r.content))
		print "Creating Entry: %s" % (ihash)
		with con:
			cur = con.cursor()
			cur.execute("INSERT INTO portals(Id, Name, ddate, status) VALUES('%s','%s','%s','%s')" % (ihash,pda,ddate,'SUBMITTED'))
def portal_success(em):
	email_message = email.message_from_string(em[1])
	#con = mdb.connect('localhost', 'ingressdb', '', 'ingress')
	dd = email.utils.parsedate(email_message['Date'])
	ddate = '%s-%s-%s' % (dd[0],dd[1],dd[2])
	try:
		msg = email_message.get_payload()[1]._payload
	except:
		return 0
	msgtxt = quopri.decodestring(msg)
	coords = re.findall('.*ll=([0-9\-.]*,[0-9\-.]*).*', msgtxt)
	if len(coords) > 0:
		cda = con.escape_string(coords[0])
	else: 
		cda = 'null'
	images = re.findall('(http[s]?://lh[0-9]\..*)\" alt', msgtxt)
	if images:
		r = requests.get(images[0])
		ihash = hash_img(StringIO(r.content))
		print "marking %s as Approved" % (ihash)
		with con:
			cur = con.cursor()
			cur.execute('UPDATE portals set adate="%s", coords="%s", status="APPROVED" WHERE Id= "%s"' % (ddate,cda,ihash))
def main():
	mail.select(submitLabel)	
	result, data = mail.uid('search', None, "ALL")
	for msg in data[0].split():
		result, data = mail.uid('fetch', msg, '(RFC822)')
		if data:
			process_submit(data[0])
	mail.select(rejectLabel)
	result, data = mail.uid('search', None, "ALL")
	for msg in data[0].split():
		result, data = mail.uid('fetch', msg, '(RFC822)')
		if data:
			portal_reject(data[0])
	mail.select(approvedLabel)
	result, data = mail.uid('search', None, "ALL")
	for msg in data[0].split():
		result, data = mail.uid('fetch', msg, '(RFC822)')
		if data:
			portal_success(data[0])


if __name__ == '__main__':
	main()