I'm working on a simple script to send emails via the GMail API, and an old script I found to access their SMTP interface wasn't working.
So I used the following script from their quickstart page to start first with reading:
#! /usr/bin/env python
#
import httplib2
from apiclient.discovery import build
from oauth2client.client import flow_from_clientsecrets
from oauth2client.file import Storage
from oauth2client.tools import run
CLIENT_SECRET = '.client.json'
OAUTH_SCOPE = 'https://www.googleapis.com/auth/gmail.readonly'
STORAGE = Storage('gmail.storage')
flow = flow_from_clientsecrets(CLIENT_SECRET, scope=OAUTH_SCOPE)
http = httplib2.Http()
credentials = STORAGE.get()
if credentials is None or credentials.invalid:
credentials = run(flow, STORAGE, http=http)
http = credentials.authorize(http)
gmail_service = build('gmail', 'v1', http=http)
threads = gmail_service.users().threads().list(userId='me').execute()
if threads['threads']:
for thread in threads['threads']:
print 'Thread ID: %s' % (thread['id'])
Running this gives a NotImplementedError as shown in this question.
So I imported and called run_flow instead of run, as I did not install gflags to continue. However, I get the following error:
TypeError: run_flow() takes at least 3 arguments (3 given)
I understand from the linked question that argparse should help. I could add the call to parser that that question uses, but I would have no idea what arguments to pass on the command line.
Anyone successfully implemented something with this who could give some help?
You don't need to pass extra arguments to the command line when using run_flow python.
import argparse
...
from oauth2client import tools
...
from oauth2client.tools import run_flow
...
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(parents=[tools.argparser])
flags = parser.parse_args()
....
credentials = run_flow(flow, STORAGE, flags, http=http)
Then you can run
python quickstart.py