read gmail with python

read_email.py

#https://codehandbook.org/how-to-read-email-from-gmail-using-python/
#https://gist.github.com/robulouski/7441883

import smtplib
import time
import imaplib
import email
import getpass

#https://stackoverflow.com/questions/753052/strip-html-from-strings-in-python
from HTMLParser import HTMLParser

class MLStripper(HTMLParser):
    def __init__(self):
        self.reset()
        self.fed = []
    def handle_data(self, d):
        self.fed.append(d)
    def get_data(self):
        return ''.join(self.fed)

def strip_tags(html):
    if not html:
        return html
    s = MLStripper()
    s.feed(html)
    return s.get_data()

FROM_EMAIL  = "user@gmail.com"
FROM_PWD    = "" #getpass.getpass()
SMTP_SERVER = "imap.gmail.com"
SMTP_PORT   = 993

# -------------------------------------------------
#
# Utility to read email from Gmail Using Python
#
# ------------------------------------------------

def read_email_from_gmail():
    try:
        mail = imaplib.IMAP4_SSL(SMTP_SERVER)
        print "logging in"
        mail.login(FROM_EMAIL,FROM_PWD)
        print "done"

        for x in  mail.list():
            print x

        # mail.select('inbox')
        mail.select("[Gmail]/Spam") #'(\\HasNoChildren \\Junk) "/" "[Gmail]/Spam"',

        _type, data = mail.search(None, 'ALL')
        mail_ids = data[0]

        id_list = mail_ids.split()
        first_email_id = int(id_list[0])
        latest_email_id = int(id_list[-1])


        all_email_text = []

        for i in range(latest_email_id,first_email_id, -1):
            typ, data = mail.fetch(i, '(RFC822)' )

            for response_part in data:
                if isinstance(response_part, tuple):
                    msg = email.message_from_string(response_part[1])

                    email_subject = msg['subject']
                    email_from = msg['from']

                    message_text = msg.get_payload(decode=True)
                    if msg.is_multipart():
                        messages = msg.get_payload(decode=False) # this wil lreturn a list instead of string
                        for child_msg in messages:
                            txt = child_msg.get_payload(decode=True)
                            all_email_text.append(txt)
                    else:
                        all_email_text.append(message_text)
                    # if not message_text:
                    #     message_text = msg.get_payload(decode=False)


                    # todo handle multiple emails in chain-list thingy
                    # instead of string it contains isntance of email class

                    if type(message_text)==list:
                        print message_text



    except Exception, e:
        print str(e)

read_email_from_gmail()


print "FINISHED!! :)"