Get the number of thread unread in Gmail.

gmail_unread_count.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
# encoding: utf-8

# Copyright (c) 2009 Greg Newman
# Copyright (c) 2010 Myles Braithwaite
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import sys
import httplib2
from xml.dom.minidom import parseString

def gmail_inbox_count(email, password):
	h = httplib2.Http()
	h.add_credentials(email, password)
	if email.endswith('@gmail.com'):
		url = 'https://mail.google.com/mail/feed/atom'
	else:
		url = 'https://mail.google.com/a/%s/feed/atom' % email.split('@')[1]
	
	resp, content = h.request(url)
	
	dom = parseString(content)
	fullcount = dom.getElementsByTagName('fullcount')[0].childNodes[0].data
	
	return fullcount

def main(argv=None):
	personal = gmail_inbox_count('example@gmail.com', 'example')
	work = gmail_inbox_count('example@example.org', 'example')
	print 'Personal: %s' % personal
	print 'Work: %s' % work

if __name__ == '__main__':
	sys.exit(main())