Create an automated bot to crawl gmail inbox
Posted in Google, Programming by sandaruwan on September 19th, 2007There are certain scenarios that you might want to write a script to access gmail inbox automatically. One possible way to do that is to use this great project, gmail-lite.
But if you simply just want to access only the inbox, did you know there is a RSS feed which can do this? This method is more simple than using an automated bot. You can authenticate using HTTP authentication and grab the contents of the inbox. The feed url is https://mail.google.com/mail/feed/atom.
If you are using a scripting language like PHP, you can use curl extension. curl has several other language bindings too. Another possible way to do this is to execute external application(in background of course) such as wget.
