How to auto log into gmail atom feed with Python?

Question

Gmail has this sweet thing going on to get an atom feed:

def gmail_url(user, pwd):
    return \"https://\"+str(user)+\":\"+str(pwd)+\"@gmail.google.com/gmail         


        

Answer 1

You can use the HTTPBasicAuthHandler, I tried the following and it worked:

import urllib2

def get_unread_msgs(user, passwd):
    auth_handler = urllib2.HTTPBasicAuthHandler()
    auth_handler.add_password(
        realm='New mail feed',
        uri='https://mail.google.com',
        user='%s@gmail.com' % user,
        passwd=passwd
    )
    opener = urllib2.build_opener(auth_handler)
    urllib2.install_opener(opener)
    feed = urllib2.urlopen('https://mail.google.com/mail/feed/atom')
    return feed.read()