Gmail API decoding messages in Javascript

Question

I am having serious problems decoding the message body of the emails I get using the Gmail API. I want to grab the message content and put the content in a div. I am using a

Answer 1

I was also annoyed by this point. I discovered a solution through looking at an extension for VSCode. The solution is really simple:

const body = response.data.payload.body; // the base64 encoded body of a message
 body = Buffer.alloc(
        body.data.length,
        body.data,
        "base64"
      ).toString();  // the decoded message

It worked for me as I was using gmail.users.messages.get() call of Gmail API.