Gmail Attachment Downloader 2020

gmail_attachment_downloader.py

# Made for: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/61366836/download-attachment-from-mail-using-python/

import os
from imbox import Imbox # pip install imbox
import traceback

# enable less secure apps on your google account
# https://myaccount.google.com/lesssecureapps

host = "imap.gmail.com"
username = "username"
password = 'password'
download_folder = "/path/to/download/folder"

if not os.path.isdir(download_folder):
    os.makedirs(download_folder, exist_ok=True)

mail = Imbox(host, username=username, password=password, ssl=True, ssl_context=None, starttls=False)
messages = mail.messages() # defaults to inbox

for (uid, message) in messages:
	mail.mark_seen(uid) # optional, marks message as read

	for idx, attachment in enumerate(message.attachments):
		try:
			att_fn = attachment.get('filename')
			download_path = f"{download_folder}/{att_fn}"
			print(download_path)
			with open(download_path, "wb") as fp:
				fp.write(attachment.get('content').read())
		except:
			pass
			print(traceback.print_exc())

mail.logout()


"""
Available Message filters: 

# Gets all messages from the inbox
messages = mail.messages()

# Unread messages
messages = mail.messages(unread=True)

# Flagged messages
messages = mail.messages(flagged=True)

# Un-flagged messages
messages = mail.messages(unflagged=True)

# Messages sent FROM
messages = mail.messages(sent_from='sender@example.org')

# Messages sent TO
messages = mail.messages(sent_to='receiver@example.org')

# Messages received before specific date
messages = mail.messages(date__lt=datetime.date(2018, 7, 31))

# Messages received after specific date
messages = mail.messages(date__gt=datetime.date(2018, 7, 30))

# Messages received on a specific date
messages = mail.messages(date__on=datetime.date(2018, 7, 30))

# Messages whose subjects contain a string
messages = mail.messages(subject='Christmas')

# Messages from a specific folder
messages = mail.messages(folder='Social')
"""

It didn't save the attachment.....

AttributeError: 'GmailMessages' object has no attribute 'attachments'