Javascript to check Gmail Unread Count

Question

How in javascript would get the number of unread emails for the currently signed in gmail account?

Related question - does Google offer any documentation on this sort of stuff?

Answer 1

Here's the docs's you are looking for:

http://code.google.com/apis/gmail/docs/

Note, that there's no way to 'steal' the unread count from someones account using somme simple javascript without authentication.