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Download all attachments from a gmail "All Mail" mailbox with python imap
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# Something in lines of http://stackoverflow.com/questions/348630/how-can-i-download-all-emails-with-attachments-from-gmail | |
# Make sure you have IMAP enabled in your gmail settings. | |
# Right now it won't download same file name twice even if their contents are different. | |
import email | |
import getpass, imaplib | |
import os | |
import sys | |
detach_dir = '.' | |
if 'attachments' not in os.listdir(detach_dir): | |
os.mkdir('attachments') | |
userName = raw_input('Enter your GMail username:') | |
passwd = getpass.getpass('Enter your password: ') | |
try: | |
imapSession = imaplib.IMAP4_SSL('imap.gmail.com') | |
typ, accountDetails = imapSession.login(userName, passwd) | |
if typ != 'OK': | |
print 'Not able to sign in!' | |
raise | |
imapSession.select('[Gmail]/All Mail') | |
typ, data = imapSession.search(None, 'ALL') | |
if typ != 'OK': | |
print 'Error searching Inbox.' | |
raise | |
# Iterating over all emails | |
for msgId in data[0].split(): | |
typ, messageParts = imapSession.fetch(msgId, '(RFC822)') | |
if typ != 'OK': | |
print 'Error fetching mail.' | |
raise | |
emailBody = messageParts[0][1] | |
mail = email.message_from_string(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() | |
continue | |
fileName = part.get_filename() | |
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() | |
imapSession.close() | |
imapSession.logout() | |
except : | |
print 'Not able to download all attachments.' |
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Works as is, but we'll modify it to allow some basic options, including a specific mailbox.