Is there a way to pull inline images from an email within gmail to save somewhere? If not, is there a way to get the image url of the inline image?
Would IMAP or POP support this?
I've been able to pull an email via IMAP, but I can't find any trace of the inline images within the email, unless the image has been converted to strings of letters and numbers. I did a search for the image url, and couldn't find that in the resulting string either, so I'm not sure if it's possible to pull inline images from gmail.
If you can successfully pull the mail from gmail via POP3 or IMAP. Then you'll find the image maybe encoded into BASE64 string.
All you need to do is parse the image part and decode it to binary.
The following maybe useful:
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Wondering can someone point me in the right direction on how to convert base64 image string to its original image URL.
My code is scraping top 5 news from google based on my search string.
Images are in one big massive base64 string. Images are printing ok on my outlook email (my code extract the news and send out an email in outlook) but when I forward that email on to different email account can't see any image but a message The linked image cannot be displayed. The file may have been moved, renamed or deleted. Just to check that, I copied the image from my outlook email and tried to paste on word document; all I can see is an empty box but no image.
any advice, please?
You can't get a URL from those. Those base64 encoded strings are fully embedded images. You could base64 decode them and save it to a file or just take the base64 encoded string an attach it to another image tag like in the incoming email.
If you have some specific code I could be of more help.
I'm trying to retrieve emails via a python script. I was looking to see if there's a way to retrieve them and display into an HTML inbox page. I know that I could just log onto my email and see my inbox, but I still want to see if I can retrieve my emails and render it in readable form.
Assuming you're trying to retrieve your Gmail inbox, Google's Gmail API is perfect for that use case.
First of all, here's the setup instructions for Python:
https://developers.google.com/gmail/api/quickstart/python
Once you've got your Gmail project set up (including signing up and getting an API key), you can retrieve an inbox from the Users.messages data. The example Gmail uses in the first link (quickstart) retrieves Users.labels, so it should be a pretty basic modification to retrieve Users.messages using the same syntax.
Alternatively, Gmail has a REST API which you could use to easily retrieve JSON data using a simple HTTP request. See here:
https://developers.google.com/gmail/api/v1/reference/
Note: if you're going the HTTP request route, then you might as well use JQuery (Javascript library) to execute an HTTP request using the $.get() and/or $.post() methods.
I'm currently using the yagmail module to send e-mails with Python, and I'm having difficulty embedding locally stored images into an e-mail. Is this possible?
Here's a code example:
contents = ["<img src='/path/to/local/image'>"]
yag = yagmail.SMTP('myemail#gmail.com', 'password')
yag.send('myotheremail#gmail.com', 'E-mail Title', contents)
Using the above code example, if I input an external path (e.g, imgur image or google image), it works perfectly, put I cannot seem to get a local path recognized.
The solution doesn't have to be using yagmail, it just seems to be the easiest e-mail module I've used so far.
Thanks for any help!
yagmail creator here:
Try this:
contents = [yagmail.inline("/path/to/local/image")]
You could put the image on a cloud CDN like google drive has this kind of function and send the email as HTML including the picture.
I am trying to use python's imaplib and email.feedparser to grab an attachment out of a gmail inbox. The email is generated by an external party and sent to us, so I have no control over it.
The trouble is that the message I am trying to parse has msg.get_content_maintype() return 'text' instead of 'multitype'. As a result the uuencoded attachment gets concatenated with the rest of the message and I don't see an ease way to pull it out of email.message.Message.
Any ideas how I can extract the attachment out of such an email?
If it is any help, the email has 'Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.3790.4862' in it. Thunderbird also had trouble rendering this email and wasn't able to figure out that it had an attachment. Otherwise, the message looks ok in Outlook and Gmail web client.
As email.parser.FeedParser documentation says you can use _factory parameter to provide your own Message class. You could put your own class derived from email.message.Message that will replace message contenttype with the correct one if this message was composed in "Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE ...blablabla".
I think it is safe to expect that the messagesin this particular case will always be multipart.
I've just been given a project which involves the following steps
Grab an email from a POP3 address
Open an attachment from the email
Extract the To: email address
Add this to a global suppression list
I'd like to try and do this in Python even though I could it in PHP in half the time (this is because I dont know anywhere near as much Python as PHP)
My question would be.
Can anyone recommend a Python library for interacting with email in the way described above?
Many thanks in advance
Two bits from the standard library: poplib to grab the email via POP3, email to slice and dice it as you wish.