Quick & dirty script used for downloading latest stock sheet from Google Apps Email and saving to server for further processing

getstockfile.py

#!/usr/bin/env python

""" Quick & dirty script used for downloading latest stock sheet from
Google Apps Email and saving to server for further processing"""

import email
import imaplib
import os

save_dir = '.'
user = 'GMAILEMAIL'
pwd = 'GMAILPASSWORD'

def search_emails(imapsearch='(HEADER Subject "Stock Status")'):
    """
    Given an IMAP search string search the emails for the stock update email
    """
    m = imaplib.IMAP4_SSL("imap.gmail.com")
    m.login(user,pwd)
    m.select()

    resp, items = m.search(None, imapsearch)
    items = items[0].split()
    items.reverse()
    items = items[:1]
    return items

def wipe_existing(save_dir, extension):
    files = os.listdir(save_dir)

    for f in files:
        if os.path.splitext(f)[1] == ('.%s' % extension):
            print("Removing: %s" % f)
            os.remove(f)

def main(save_dir, user, pwd):
    wipe_existing(save_dir, 'xlsx')
    items = search_emails()

    for emailid in items:
        resp, data = m.fetch(emailid, "(RFC822)")
        email_body = data[0][1] # getting the mail content
        mail = email.message_from_string(email_body) # parsing the mail content to get a mail object

    #Check if any attachments at all
        if mail.get_content_maintype() != 'multipart':
            print 'No attachment'
            continue

    print "[%s]: %s" % (mail["From"], mail["Subject"])

    for part in mail.walk():
    # multipart are just containers, so we skip them
        if part.get_content_maintype() == 'multipart':
            continue

    # is this part an attachment ?
        if part.get('Content-Disposition') is None:
            continue

    filename = part.get_filename()
    att_path = os.path.join(detach_dir, filename)

    #Check if its already there
    if not os.path.isfile(att_path) :
        fp = open(att_path, 'wb')
        fp.write(part.get_payload(decode=True))
        fp.close()

if __name__ == "__main__":
    main(save_dir, user, pwd)