I built an IMAP client using this library:
Gmail IMAP and SMTP using OAuth - Libraries and Samples
http://code.google.com/apis/gmail/oauth/code.html
I need to search all the emails in the Inbox and return only those emails matching with my "subject" and which are sent in last 24hrs. Once i have that email i want to read the body and do some processing. I was able to do all of this using above library but when i deploy this code on GAE it fails with with "Security violation" as my code is trying to set some of the following system properties:
props.put("mail.imaps.sasl.enable", "true");
props.put("mail.imaps.sasl.mechanisms", "XOAUTH");
props.put(XoauthSaslClientFactory.OAUTH_TOKEN_PROP, oauthToken);
What are my other alternatives to achieve this task? Few people were talking about RSS feed. Can we achieve what i am looking for using this technique? Any inputs will be appreciated.
Thank You.
I've heard that ContextIO is providing APIs to access GMAIL account. I've tested to get all contacts, emails, files, email's body successfully. The APIs are quite easy to use. You need some steps to obtain ContextIO's Consumer Keys.
They's also providing an API to fetch mails from Google App Engine. Currently, I'm working to bring a demo and hopefully will update this answer soon. However, it's very straight forward and interesting to do :)
App Engine Blogs
Context IO's site
Hope it helps
Google App Engine only allows http/s communication thru the urlfetch API.
IMAP cannot be used on the production servers.
You can try using urlfetch using GMail built in RSS feed (https://USERNAME%3aPASSWORD#gmail.google.com/gmail/feed/atom).
You can use Google Apps script to access your inbox and send the result to App Engine.
http://code.google.com/googleapps/appsscript/service_gmail.html
F.I. I use Apps Script with Google Spreadsheets to make reports, based on data in GAE, using a hmac signature to authenticate.
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I am trying to create a daemon python application which will get emails from outlook server using Microsoft outlook graph API. They have provided excellent tutorial and documentation on how to get it done for python app like django and flask. But I want to create daemon script which can get access code without using web interface(which was used in django).
Note: This app will only collect email from single email and will feed it to db.
Any help is appriciated.
It really depends on what kind of security you need. You can have your daemon/service authenticate with username/password directly, or you can have it authenticate with a certificate.
There are several different authentication scenarios, take a look at the docs page.
Either way, you need to register your daemon as an app in Azure and give it permissions to the Outlook API, just as if it were a web app.
I am new to web programming- I've recently been familiarizing myself with the webapp2 framework. I'm trying to start building a website, and would like users to login to the site with Facebook and I'll need access to their friends list. I've been trying to find a way to do this- I found out about OAUTH2, and I think this may be a way to do this. All the tutorials for python and OAUTH2 that I've found have been using the google API, I'm not sure if it's any different, but I haven't been able to get it to work.
Does anyone have sample code they can post that uses OAUTH2 (or anything else) to get users to sign in through Facebook? Or any good resources that can help me with this?
Your app needs to authorize users with Facebook, since there's where the resources you need are (e.g. friend lists).
This is a classic use of OAuth2 and you don't have a way around it, because FB implements this protocol.
My suggestion is that you look at the Google sample and then adjust it for FB API. The important changes are:
The endpoint URLs (e.g. authorize, token and user profile
The scopes that define the extent of permissions you are requesting (e.g. list of friends)
The user profile (e.g. the information returned by FB on a user: name, e-mail, etc)
This is a very simple sample that does this in Python. It was meant to run in Google App Engine. The only caveat is that it uses our own library to encapsulate the flow. But you can use it to study how the basic protocol works. Run the live demo and turn on dev tools on your browser to see the network activity.
You will notice that OAuth2 is a rather simple protocol, using simple HTTP requests.
I'd like to allow my Google App Engine application to connect to a clients Google Spreadsheet on their Google Drive. I've spent the last two and a half days trying, and I've gotten nowhere. Half of the GAE Python documentation seems to be out of date. For example some of the examples have webapp, and they don't work until I change them to webapp2, but that doesn't always work.
I created a OAuth2.0 thing (not really sure what to call it) at:
https://code.google.com/apis/console/
So now I have a Client ID and Client Secret, but one doc talked about a CONSUMER_KEY and CONSUMER_SECRET. So are they the same or?
I followed the following doc to use OAuth to read my tasks (I know it's a different API), but I couldn't figure out step/Task 3. I'm not sure if I have all of the files/librarys to connect using OAuth. I have the gdata-2.0.17 files, and I know how to connect to the drive and spreadsheets by hard coding the login credentials, but no user is going to give me their credentials.
I don't normally ask for code, or even help, but I'm completely lost with this whole OAuth API/Service.
If someone could post some sample code that uses OAuth 2.0 and webapp2, and that you have tested, that would be awesome.
If someone could link me to a sample GAE Python project that can authenticate with Google's servers and allow it to connect to the users spreadsheets using OAuth 2.0 and webapp2, I'd be over the moon.
A complete example application using Google Drive from GAE is explained in this article.
See Retrieving Authenticated Google Data Feeds with Google App Engine (Python) if you need to access the spreadsheet content.
The samples in this article is using Google Document List API but it could be easily adapted to use spreadsheets scope and spreadsheet client or service.
If you only need to list the files, I would recommend using Drive like #SebastionKreft suggested
I'm currently building a Python webapp on the Google App Engine and I want to expose various parts of my application via a JSON API. This API may be used in the form of a mobile client, or (for the purposes of testing) a headless Python script.
I need to be able to authenticate users before they perform operations on the API. I notice that the Users API does not support simple authentication [in the form of authenticate(username, password)] so merely sending the username/password to a URL and then later using some given token would not work.
Ultimately, I would like the application to use Facebook Connect in addition to its own logins.
Could somebody please suggest how is the best way to authenticate users in this situation, using a remote JSON API and the Google App Engine?
Cheers
You might want to check out the recently released oauth support. Failing that, you can implement your own authentication, for example by using simple or digest authentication.
Just for the record, I ended up going with the wonderful Tipfy framework in the end.
How can I fetch mails from gmail account in Google Apps Engine Django application?
Configure your app to receive email, then, if it really has to be a gmail address, set up the gmail address to forward everything to your appspot address.
You could cronjob rss feed to gmail messages?
gmail rss
python cron
I would use libgmail -- seems to be the most popular pure-Python way to do it. However for app engine use I believe it would have to be ported to use urlfetch and I don't think anybody's done that yet (I'd happily receive news to the contrary!-).
Just use the Python's standard POP or IMAP client. Google does not provide a GMail API.