getmessage.py

"""Get Message with given ID.
"""
import base64
import email
from apiclient import errors


#from apiclient.discovery import build
#service = build('gmail', 'v1',developerKey='AIzaSyBYz9sTDX9JIDhEk3IWdjzFI9FiZB8YqYg')



def GetMessage(service, user_id, msg_id):
  """Get a Message with given ID.

  Args:
    service: Authorized Gmail API service instance.
    user_id: User's email address. The special value "me"
    can be used to indicate the authenticated user.
    msg_id: The ID of the Message required.

  Returns:
    A Message.
  """
  try:
    message = service.users().messages().get(userId=user_id, id=msg_id).execute()

    #print 'Message snippet: %s' % message['snippet']

    return message
  except errors.HttpError, error:
    print 'An error occurred: %s' % error


def GetMimeMessage(service, user_id, msg_id):
  """Get a Message and use it to create a MIME Message.

  Args:
    service: Authorized Gmail API service instance.
    user_id: User's email address. The special value "me"
    can be used to indicate the authenticated user.
    msg_id: The ID of the Message required.

  Returns:
    A MIME Message, consisting of data from Message.
  """
  try:
    message = service.users().messages().get(userId=user_id, id=msg_id,
                                             format='raw').execute()

    #print 'Message snippet: %s' % message['snippet']
 
    msg_str = base64.urlsafe_b64decode(message['raw'].encode('ASCII'))

    mime_msg = email.message_from_string(msg_str)

    return mime_msg
  except errors.HttpError, error:
    print 'An error occurred: %s' % error


#resource=GetMessage(service,"me","15b184f2ba936882")
#print resource['snippet']