gmailr

Easily exposing the Gmail API from R.

Features

• retrieve data from your email
• drafts: my_drafts = drafts()
• history: my_history = history(start_num)
• labels: my_labels = labels()
• messages: my_messages = messages("search query")
• threads: my_threads = threads("search query")
• manage email labels programmatically: modify_thread(thread_id, add_labels=c("label_1"), remove_labels=c("label_2"))
• put things in the gmail trash
• messages: trash_message(message_id)
• threads: trash_thread(thread_id)
• take things out of the gmail trash
• messages: untrash_message(message_id)
• threads: untrash_thread(thread_id)
• delete directly without using the trash
• messages: delete_message(message_id)
• threads: delete_thread(thread_id)

Setup

• Register a new project at https://cloud.google.com/console#/project
• Navigate to APIs
• Switch the Gmail API status to On
• Navigate to APIs & auth->Credentials
• Create a new client ID
• Download the Client ID JSON

• Use the downloaded JSON as input to gmail_auth()

  R gmail_auth('file.json')