I am trying to use the Gmail API to read messages with a specific label. The main purpose is that I want to be able to create notes in my iPhone Notes app via gmail account (this generates essentially a self-sent email and puts a "Notes" label on it in my Gmail) and automate retrieval/parsing of the note.
I've been able to successfully authenticate and access my account through the Python API. I can send requests to list all labels and the "Notes" label (as well as other user-created labels) appear.
When the problem I'm having is that I'm unable to retrieve messages with a specific label that was user created. Using the code provided in the Gmail API docs, I can successfully get messages from any of the default labels (e.g. "DRAFT", "UNREAD", etc..).
Is there something I'm missing about user-created labels that I need to do differently? The below code is what I'm using:
import pickle
import os.path
from googleapiclient.discovery import build
from google_auth_oauthlib.flow import InstalledAppFlow
from google.auth.transport.requests import Request
from apiclient import errors
# If modifying these scopes, delete the file token.pickle.
SCOPES = ['https://www.googleapis.com/auth/gmail.readonly']
def main():
"""Shows basic usage of the Gmail API.
Lists the user's Gmail labels.
"""
creds = None
# The file token.pickle stores the user's access and refresh tokens, and is
# created automatically when the authorization flow completes for the first
# time.
if os.path.exists('token.pickle'):
with open('token.pickle', 'rb') as token:
creds = pickle.load(token)
# If there are no (valid) credentials available, let the user log in.
if not creds or not creds.valid:
if creds and creds.expired and creds.refresh_token:
creds.refresh(Request())
else:
flow = InstalledAppFlow.from_client_secrets_file(
'credentials.json', SCOPES)
creds = flow.run_local_server(port=0)
# Save the credentials for the next run
with open('token.pickle', 'wb') as token:
pickle.dump(creds, token)
service = build('gmail', 'v1', credentials=creds)
# Call the Gmail API
results = service.users().labels().list(userId='me').execute()
labels = results.get('labels', [])
if not labels:
print('No labels found.')
else:
print('Labels:')
for label in labels:
print(label['name'])
return service
def ListMessagesWithLabels(service, user_id,label_ids=[]):
try:
response = service.users().messages().list(userId=user_id, labelIds=label_ids).execute()
messages = []
if 'messages' in response:
messages.extend(response['messages'])
while 'nextPageToken' in response:
page_token = response['nextPageToken']
response = service.users().messages().list(userId=user_id,labelIds=label_ids,pageToken=page_token).execute()
messages.extend(response['messages'])
return messages
except errors.HttpError as error:
print (f'An error occurred: {error}')
if __name__ == '__main__':
service = main()
messages1 = ListMessagesWithLabels(service, 'me',["Receipts"])
for message in messages1:
print(message)
And this is the error output I get when trying to query a label that I created:
An error occurred: <HttpError 400 when requesting https://www.googleapis.com/gmail/v1/users/me/messages?labelIds=Receipts&alt=json returned "Invalid label: Receipts">
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Users/alec/GmailAPI/quickstart.py", line 86, in <module>
for message in messages1:
TypeError: 'NoneType' object is not iterable
Thanks for any help. Apologies if I'm missing something obvious as I'm a fairly novice programmer.
