Node.js

Download a Specific GMail Message into a Chilkat Email Object

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Demonstrates how to download a GMail message into a Chilkat Email object. Node.js

NODEJS_PRELUDE

function chilkatExample() {

    var success = false;

    //  This example requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
    //  See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

    var http = new chilkat.Http();
    http.AuthToken = "GMAIL-ACCESS-TOKEN";

    //  The id of the GMail message to download.
    var id = "166e50fed0b9b0cb";
    var userId = "me";

    http.SetUrlVar("userId","me");
    http.SetUrlVar("id",id);

    //  Fetch the email.
    var url = "https://www.googleapis.com/gmail/v1/users/{$userId}/messages/{$id}?format=raw";
    var sbJson = new chilkat.StringBuilder();
    success = http.DownloadSb(url,"utf-8",sbJson);
    if (success !== true) {
        console.log(http.LastErrorText);
        return;
    }

    var json = new chilkat.JsonObject();
    json.LoadSb(sbJson);
    json.EmitCompact = false;

    if (http.LastStatus !== 200) {
        console.log(json.Emit());
        console.log("Failed.");
        return;
    }

    //  The returned JSON contains something like this:

    //  {
    //    "id": "166e50fed0b9b0cb",
    //    "threadId": "166e50fed0b9b0cb",
    //    "labelIds": [
    //      "CATEGORY_SOCIAL",
    //      "INBOX"
    //    ],
    //    "snippet": "...",
    //    "historyId": "582477",
    //    "internalDate": "1541441317000",
    //    "sizeEstimate": 28603,
    //    "raw": "BASE64URL_CONTENT"
    //  }

    //  The RFC822 MIME of the email is contained in the "raw" as a base64URL encoded string.
    //  Let's decode and load into a Chilkat email object..
    var sbRaw = new chilkat.StringBuilder();
    json.StringOfSb("raw",sbRaw);
    sbRaw.Decode("base64url","utf-8");

    var email = new chilkat.Email();
    email.SetFromMimeSb(sbRaw);

    //  Now we can use the email API to do whatever we desire..
    console.log("From: " + email.FromAddress);
    console.log("Subject: " + email.Subject);
    //  ...

}

chilkatExample();