Download all attachments from Gmail from a specific sender

download_attachments_from_sender_gmail.py

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import email, getpass, imaplib, os, sys

# The following script will download all attachments from a given sender
# that you specify. Little to no error handling, use at your own risk!
#
# IMPORTANT: If you first used Gmail in the UK then you need to select
# a different mailbox (please see below and uncomment the appropriate line).
#
# Adapted from http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10182499/how-do-i-download-only-unread-attachments-from-a-specific-gmail-label

# Directory where to save attachments ('.' = current directory)
detach_dir = '.'

user = raw_input("Gmail username: ")
pwd = getpass.getpass("Password: ")
sender_email = raw_input("Enter the sender's email (to filter by): ")

# Connecting to the gmail imap server
m = imaplib.IMAP4_SSL("imap.gmail.com")
m.login(user,pwd)

# Select the mailbox
m.select("[Gmail]/All Mail")

# If you get an error "command SEARCH illegal in state AUTH, only allowed in states SELECTED"
# then it is likely that the mailbox you have tried to select doesn't exist.
# If you were originally a Google Mail user (i.e. a user in the UK) then you should uncomment
# the line below.

# m.select("[Google Mail]/All Mail") # here you a can choose a mail box like INBOX instead

# Alternatively you can search for emails in the inbox only
# m.select("INBOX")

# Use m.list() to get all the mailboxes

resp, items = m.search(None, 'FROM', '"%s"' % sender_email)
items = items[0].split()

for emailid in items:
    resp, data = m.fetch(emailid, "(RFC822)")
    email_body = data[0][1]
    mail = email.message_from_string(email_body)

    if mail.get_content_maintype() != 'multipart':
        continue

    subject = ""

    if mail["subject"] is not None:
        subject = mail["subject"]

    print "["+mail["From"]+"] :" + subject

    for part in mail.walk():
        if part.get_content_maintype() == 'multipart':
            continue

        if part.get('Content-Disposition') is None:
            continue

        filename = part.get_filename()
        counter = 1

        if not filename:
            filename = 'part-%03d%s' % (counter, 'bin')
            counter += 1

        att_path = os.path.join(detach_dir, filename)

        if not os.path.isfile(att_path) :
            fp = open(att_path, 'wb')
            fp.write(part.get_payload(decode=True))
            fp.close()

I know this sounds so retarded. I'm not a programmer and I don't understand which things I need to change in the script to run it. Please tell me what I'm doing wrong. Interpreter says "Missing Parenthesis in call to 'print'"

import email, getpass, imaplib, os, sys

detach_dir = 'C:\Users\mrodrig3\Downloads\BAC'

user = raw_input("[email protected]")
pwd = getpass.getpass("**********************")
sender_email = raw_input("[email protected]")


m = imaplib.IMAP4_SSL("imap.gmail.com")
m.login(user,pwd)

m.select("[Gmail]/All Mail")

resp, items = m.search(None, 'FROM', '"%s"' % sender_email)
items = items[0].split()

for emailid in items:
    resp, data = m.fetch(emailid, "(RFC822)")
    email_body = data[0][1]
    mail = email.message_from_string(email_body)

    if mail.get_content_maintype() != 'multipart':
        continue

    subject = ""

    if mail["subject"] is not None:
        subject = mail["subject"]

    print "["+mail["From"]+"] :" + subject

    for part in mail.walk():
        if part.get_content_maintype() == 'multipart':
            continue

        if part.get('Content-Disposition') is None:
            continue

        filename = part.get_filename()
        counter = 1

        if not filename:
            filename = 'part-%03d%s' % (counter, 'bin')
            counter += 1

        att_path = os.path.join(detach_dir, filename)

        if not os.path.isfile(att_path) :
            fp = open(att_path, 'wb')
            fp.write(part.get_payload(decode=True))
            fp.close()

moirod did you get this figured out? I just ran into the same error and it's because I'm using Python 3, which has a different syntax for the print statement. Just wrap everything after the print statement in parenthesis like print(whatever + "you want to print")

Hai i would like to request u i wanna some code here
How to read and display at sametime gmail attachements in a python window....?
and im using windows OS using python version 2.7.14

I have tried executing this code but it shows the following error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "config.py", line 25, in
mail = email.message_from_string(email_body)
File "C:\Users\sappa\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37-32\lib\email_init_.py", line 38, in message_from_string
return Parser(*args, **kws).parsestr(s)
File "C:\Users\sappa\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37-32\lib\email\parser.py", line 68, in parsestr
return self.parse(StringIO(text), headersonly=headersonly)
TypeError: initial_value must be str or None, not bytes

SOLVED IT 💯

                                                            mail = email.message_from_string(email_body)

The above line in the code must be replaced with the following line and it works perfectly

                                                            mail = email.message_from_bytes(email_body)

in short: "email.message_from_string" must be replaced with "email.message_from_bytes". Because the data is present in bytes not in the string format.

mycode: wokring fine

import imaplib,email,smtplib
import os

detach_dir = '.'
if 'attachments' not in os.listdir(detach_dir):
os.mkdir("attachments")

user='[email protected]'
pwd="delu@2250012"

imap_url='imap.gmail.com'

con= imaplib.IMAP4_SSL('imap.gmail.com')
con.login(user, pwd)
con.select('INBOX')

type, data=con.uid('search', None, '(HEADER Subject "invoice")')

typ, data = con.search(None, '(SUBJECT "invoice")')

type, data = con.search(None, 'ALL')

mail_ids = data[0]

id_list = mail_ids.split()

for msgId in data[0].split():
typ, messageParts = con.fetch(msgId, '(RFC822)')
if typ != 'OK':
print ('Error fetching mail.')
raise

emailBody = messageParts[0][1]
# print(emailBody)

mail = email.message_from_bytes(emailBody)
for part in mail.walk():
        if part.get_content_maintype() == 'multipart':
            # print(part.as_string())
            continue
        if part.get('Content-Disposition') is None:
            # print (part.as_string())
            # print("done")
            continue
        fileName = part.get_filename()
        print('done')
        if bool(fileName):
            filePath = os.path.join(detach_dir, 'attachments', fileName)
            if not os.path.isfile(filePath) :
                print (fileName)
                fp = open(filePath, 'wb')
                fp.write(part.get_payload(decode=True))
                fp.close()

SOLVED IT 💯

                                                            mail = email.message_from_string(email_body)

The above line in the code must be replaced with the following line and it works perfectly

                                                            mail = email.message_from_bytes(email_body)

in short: "email.message_from_string" must be replaced with "email.message_from_bytes". Because the data is present in bytes not in the string format.

Thanks for that @RahulSapparapu !
In addition to that, I had to make the following minor changes to make it python3 compatible

1. Use input in place of raw_input
2. Use additional single quote at

('"[Gmail]/All Mail"')

4. Use parentheses at

print("["+mail["From"]+"] :" + subject)

Finally, added the following to filename as my attachments were of the same name and were getting overwritten:

datestring = mail['date']
datestring2 = utils.parsedate_to_datetime(datestring).strftime("%Y_%m_%d")
filename = datestring2 + '_' + part.get_filename()

Thank you @styrmis for sharing this!