| #!/usr/bin/env python3 | |
| # Get your files that Gmail block. Warning message: | |
| # "Anti-virus warning - 1 attachment contains a virus or blocked file. Downloading this attachment is disabled." | |
| # Based on: https://spapas.github.io/2014/10/23/retrieve-gmail-blocked-attachments/ | |
| # Instructions: | |
| # Go to your emails, click the arrow button in the top right, "Show original", then "Download Original". | |
| # Move the files to the same directory as this program, then run it. | |
| import email | |
| import sys | |
| import os | |
| if __name__ == '__main__': | |
| if sys.version_info[0] < 3: | |
| print("Please use Python 3.") | |
| sys.exit() | |
| if len(sys.argv) < 2: | |
| print("Press enter to process all files with .txt extension.") | |
| input() | |
| files = [f for f in os.listdir('.') if os.path.isfile(f) and f.endswith('.txt')] | |
| else: | |
| files = sys.argv[1:] | |
| print("Files: %s" % ', '.join(files)) | |
| print() | |
| for f in files: | |
| msg = email.message_from_file(open(f)) | |
| print("Processing %s" % f) | |
| print("Subject: %s" % msg['Subject']) | |
| for pl in msg.get_payload(): | |
| fn_header = pl.get_filename() | |
| if fn_header: | |
| fn_data = email.header.decode_header(fn_header) | |
| (fn_str, fn_charset) = fn_data[0] | |
| if isinstance(fn_str, str): | |
| fn = fn_str | |
| else: | |
| fn = fn_str.decode(fn_charset) | |
| print("Found %s" % fn) | |
| if os.path.isfile(fn): | |
| print("The file %s already exists! Press enter to overwrite." % fn) | |
| input() | |
| open(fn, 'wb').write(pl.get_payload(decode=True)) | |
| print() |
wow works perfectly recovered my rar file . Thanks
man!! it works perfectly!! thank u!!
Thanks!
Also you can download the attachment using another client such as Mail.app
Great, worked just fine, thanks!
Thanks, but I found it failed to extract Chinese name attachments like this Content-Type: application/octet-stream; name="=?GB2312?B?c2RoKDUuMTcuMjMuNDbQ3tX9z9C80rP2wazM9LrzxuTL/M/QvNK15sXG?= =?GB2312?B?tO3O8ykucmFy?=" Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="=?GB2312?B?c2RoKDUuMTcuMjMuNDbQ3tX9z9C80rP2wazM9LrzxuTL/M/QvNK15sXG?= =?GB2312?B?tO3O8ykucmFy?=".
Do the follow changes can fix this.
try:
open(fn, 'wb').write(pl.get_payload(decode=True))
except:
fn = "test.rar"
print("Invalid filename, just redirect to write %s" % fn)
open(fn, 'wb').write(pl.get_payload(decode=True))Hope this trick can help other guys who encounter the same issue.
@huxingyi I updated the code so it should decode filenames properly now. Give it a try.
This is so awesome. I thank you!
Still working great! thanks!
Dope! This worked like a charm. Yayyy, Python modules for everything, and thanks @stefansundin
Hi,
I am getting following error, can you please help me
udays-MacBook-Pro:mystuff udaykumarkanike$ python extract-attachments.py 0.txt
Files: 0.txt
()
Processing 0.txt
Subject: None
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "extract-attachments.py", line 27, in <module>
fn_header = pl.get_filename()
AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'get_filename'
udays-MacBook-Pro:mystuff udaykumarkanike$
Thanks
Uday
Hi @UdayKanike. I suspect your email is formatted in a way I have not encountered before. msg.get_payload() seems to have returned a string.
Try adding this (use the first line to see where to put it):
for pl in msg.get_payload():
if not isinstance(pl, email.message.Message):
print("Unexpected payload")
continue
Worked perfectly, thanks (y)
EOF problem on notepad, see this print screen:
@me-suzy it appears you are using Python 2.7. Please run this script with Python 3.
Works perfectly! Thanks
Where should i place that particular file ?
@NadeemBaloch Place the .py file and your emails (.txt files) in the same directory. Then run the python script.
Thanks a lot! It works like a charm!
For all the python noobs like me out there: do not save the script as email.py.
Genius, this is great and works perfectly. Google and their omnipotence blocks common extensions like JS in zip files now and don't provide an override option. time to for another email.
Really terrific, thanks for this! Had some files from old personal website I saved in my email a loooong time ago and couldn't download them cause of this "antivirus" thing. This script worked perfectly, though
Works like a charm. Thank you!
no words man
very very thank you :)
this worked awesome -- thank you -- I'm currently studying Python so am super happy with this.
I was finally able to retrieve my 3-year old attachment by using Gmail's "Save to Drive", as mentioned above. Interestingly, I couldn't download it from the Drive page (it just opened a blank page with a cryptic URL) in Firefox. I tried "sharing" it, sending a link to the file to my work Outlook email. Outlook opens IE here at work to navigate to the link and, after the obligatory advice to move to Chrome, I was able to download the file, an encrypted .7z file. It was all source code. At first, I couldn't figure out why I chose to encrypt the archive, since it was just source code. But then I saw that some of the file extensions were .CMD, which I seem to recall Gmail screaming about and not allowing.
7zip allows the file names to be encrypted, so that's how I got around that. Apparently, Google has decided that any archive whose file names are encrypted must be malware designed by Russian, Chinese, or North Korean hackers.
This script saved my ass. Thanks a bunch!
Awesome, it works :)
Working fine. Thanks. !!
Thanks, code works. If you are the one who sent the email, you can save the email and open using Outlook etc.
Your code really hepls me a lot. I just download all my documents from Gmail. But I have not seen the instructions for the code. You can see the origin article here:
http://spapas.github.io/2014/10/23/retrieve-gmail-blocked-attachments/