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October 15, 2018 03:54
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Automatic archiving of Gmail's emails which are labeled with 'autoarchive' or 'autoarchiveX' where 0 < X < 10.
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function gmailAutoarchive() { | |
// Get all the labels | |
var labels = GmailApp.getUserLabels(); | |
// Filter out the ones not containinig autoarchive | |
var autoarchive = labels.filter(function (label) { | |
var labelName = label.getName(); | |
return labelName.indexOf("autoarchive") !== -1; | |
}); | |
//helper function to archive threads given to it | |
function archiveThreads(threads) { | |
var batch_size = 100; | |
while (threads.length) { | |
var this_batch_size = Math.min(threads.length, batch_size); | |
var this_batch = threads.splice(0, this_batch_size); | |
GmailApp.moveThreadsToArchive(this_batch); | |
} | |
} | |
// helper function to extract the last number, otherwise return 1 | |
// This allows you to have different autoarchive labels in gmail, | |
// for example autoarchive, autoarchive4, autoarchive8. | |
// Limit is 1 digit number. | |
function getNumberFromLabel(label) { | |
if (label == null || label == undefined) { | |
return 1 | |
} | |
// Get name returns String representation of the label | |
var n = label.getName().slice(-1); | |
var delayDays = 1; | |
// If it's just autoarchive for example, | |
// we can skip | |
if (!isNaN(n)) { | |
delayDays = Number(n); | |
} | |
return delayDays | |
} | |
// Main loop, autoarchive contains all labels that have | |
// the keyword "autoarchive" in it. We loop through it and | |
// handle each labels' threads. | |
for (var i = 0 ; i < autoarchive.length ; i++) { | |
var label = autoarchive[i]; | |
//--> ex. autoarchive3 | |
var query = "in:inbox label:autoarchive older_than:" + getNumberFromLabel(label) + "d" | |
// Use Googles own api to search the above query. | |
var threads = GmailApp.search(query); | |
// Archive the threads | |
archiveThreads(threads) | |
} | |
Modification allows to have different autoarchivement
labels for specific amount of day/s.
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