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How to change Gmail's password programmatically?

I came across this issue recently where I needed to change a Gmail's account password programmatically and am still thinking about the ideal approach.

Basically by providing Gmail's current username/password my application would then authenticate and request the password to be changed to a new one provided and return success.

CURL seems to be the obvious choice as I usually work with PHP, but I have also been looking into other possibilities like libgmailer, Sikuli, or scRUBYt! (although not sure you can post with the this).

  • How would you approach this task?
  • Are there any other already made tools to simplify this task?
  • Is it even feasible?

Thanks!

Solution

  • There is no reliable solution for this. If you use curl - that's ok, but you will have tu support the application forever.

    Also, you will need to handle captcha ;-)

    Anything except changin password is possible via API, but not this, AFAIK.