Check unread count of Gmail messages with Python

Question

How can I check the number of unread Gmail message in my inbox with a short Python script? Bonus points for retrieving the password from a file.

Answer 1

Once you are logged in (do this manually or with gmail.py) you should use the feed.

It is located here: http://mail.google.com/mail/feed/atom

It is the way Google does it. Here is a link to their js chrome extension: http://dev.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/extensions/samples/gmail.zip

You will then be able to parse xml that looks like this:

New messages in your Gmail Inbox
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