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elixir-gmail

A simple Gmail REST API client for Elixir.

You can find the hex package here, and the docs here.

You can find documentation for Gmail's API at https://developers.google.com/gmail/api/

Usage

First, add the client to your mix.exs dependencies:

def deps do
  [{:gmail, "~> 0.1"}]
end

Then run $ mix do deps.get, compile to download and compile your dependencies.

Finally, add the :gmail application as your list of applications in mix.exs:

def application do
  [applications: [:logger, :gmail]]
end

Before you can work with mail for a user you'll need to start a process for them.

{:ok, pid} = Gmail.User.start_mail("user@example.com", "user-refresh-token")

When a user process starts it will automatically fetch a new access token for that user. Then you can start playing with mail:

# fetch a list of threads
{:ok, threads, next_page_token} = Gmail.User.threads("user@example.com")

# fetch the next page of threads using a page token
{:ok, _, _} = Gmail.User.threads("user@example.com", %{page_token: next_page_token})

# fetch a thread by ID
{:ok, thread} = Gmail.User.thread("user@example.com", "1233454566")

# fetch a list of labels
{:ok, labels} = Gmail.User.labels("user@example.com")

Check the docs for a more complete list of functionality.

API Support

• Threads
  • get
  • list
  • modify
  • delete
  • trash
  • untrash
• Messages
  • delete
  • get
  • insert
  • list
  • modify
  • send
  • trash
  • untrash
  • import
  • batchDelete
• Labels
  • create
  • delete
  • list
  • update
  • get
  • update
  • patch
• Drafts
  • list
  • get
  • delete
  • update
  • create
  • send
  • send (with upload)
• History
  • list
• Attachments
  • get (thanks to @killtheliterate)

Auth

As of now the library doesn't do the initial auth generation for you; you'll need to create an app on the Google Developer Console to get a client ID and secret and authorize a user to get an authorization code, which you can trade for an access token.

The library will however, when you supply a refresh token, use that to refresh an expired access token for you. Take a look in the dev.exs.sample config file to see what your config should look like.

TODO

• Stop mocking HTTP requests and use Bypass instead
• Add format option when fetching threads
• .. and messages
• .. and drafts
• Batched requests
• Document the config (specifically pool size)