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Gmail API: Triggering in-webpage refresh

I'd like to trigger the in-webpage refresh button programmatically for the purpose of applying labels to emails without making the user manually refresh the page or make some other page action in order to see the labels. Is this possible to do? All of the documentation I am finding is surrounding refresh tokens, which is obviously something different.

Thank you for your time.

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Solution

  • There's no way to do that from the Gmail REST API (i.e. trigger refresh action in web browser viewing the gmail page). If you're running as a browser extension on the other hand, then sure.