Search Gmail Inbox

gmail_imap_search.rb

#
# Search gmail via imap
# Author : Scott Barr
#
require 'rubygems'
require 'net/imap'

puts "Authenticating..."

imap = Net::IMAP.new('imap.gmail.com', '993', true)
imap.login('your-gmail-usernanme', 'your-password')
imap.select('INBOX')

#
# imap search examples...
#
# imap.search(["FROM", "ann", "NOT", "NEW", "SINCE", "1-Apr-2003", 
#             "BODY", "tree"]).each do |msg_id|
# imap.search(["TO", "reggie", "BODY", "vacation"]).each do |msg_id|
#

puts "Searching messages..."

# , "BODY", "account value"
imap.search(['SUBJECT', 'twitter']).each do |msg_id|
  msg = imap.fetch(msg_id, "(UID RFC822.SIZE ENVELOPE BODY[TEXT])")[0]
  body = msg.attr["BODY[TEXT]"]
  # puts "#{body}"

  #envelope = msg.attr["ENVELOPE"]
  #uid = msg.attr["UID"]
  #size = msg.attr["RFC822.SIZE"]
  #puts "To: #{to}"

  env = imap.fetch(msg_id, "ENVELOPE")[0].attr["ENVELOPE"]
  puts "#{env.date} : From #{env.from[0].name} : \t#{env.subject}"
end

imap.logout
imap.disconnect