I'm actually working with the GMail API for Python and I successfully retrieve all the messages from all the threads for a given label and receiver and it looks like this :
credentials = get_credentials()
http = credentials.authorize(httplib2.Http())
service = discovery.build('gmail', 'v1', http=http)
response = service.users().threads().list(userId="me",
labelIds=["SENT"],
q="to:"+to_address).execute()
threads = []
if 'threads' in response:
threads.extend(response['threads'])
for thread in threads:
thread = service.users().threads().get(userId="me", id=thread['id']).execute()
messages = thread['messages']
for message in messages:
message = service.users().messages().get(userId="me", id=message['id'], format="raw").execute()
# [...] Work on data, code detail not shown here
As you can see, I retrieve every thread from sent email to a specific address and I make a lot of api accesses to retrieve the data of each messages.
I feel like there is a better way with optimized API access because it's actually quite slow.
For approximatly 15 threads and 40 emails in total, it takes around 15 seconds, there must be a better way.
My main problem here are snippets. When executing this line:
response = service.users().threads().list(userId="me",
labelIds=["SENT"],
q="to:"+to_address).execute()
I don't get the messages directly but snippets instead, so I'm forced to do this line:
thread = service.users().threads().get(userId="me", id=thread['id']).execute()
for each thread, which is my main source of slow code.
