A SwiftBar script to show unread emails in menu-bar

.env

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PASSWORD=your-app-password

README.md

This is a simple SwiftBar script to show unread-emails in menu-bar.

We use it for showing emails count from our error logs. In Django, all the errors are forwarded to an email. This shows the count of unhandled errors.

We archive the emails once the error has been handled.

Installation

pip install python-dotenv

Then copy the script in your SwiftBar Scripts folder.

unread-emails.3m.py

#!/usr/bin/python
import imaplib
import os

from dotenv import dotenv_values


def _get_unread_emails():
    current_path = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))
    env_path = os.path.join(current_path, ".env")
    env = dotenv_values(env_path)
    username = env["EMAIL_ID"]
    password = env["PASSWORD"]

    # connect to the server
    mail = imaplib.IMAP4_SSL("imap.gmail.com")
    mail.login(username, password)

    # get count in inbox
    status, inbox_count = mail.select()
    return int(inbox_count[0].decode())


if __name__ == "__main__":
    unread_count = _get_unread_emails()
    if unread_count:
        print(
            f"⚡{unread_count} | href=https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox"
        )