Download all Gmail emails from a label and save them as PDF
This script will connect to your Gmail account and download as .eml files all your email from a specified label.
Then you can convert the .eml files to pdf with this open source program: https://github.com/nickrussler/eml-to-pdf-converter
Setting up the credentials
Go to this link https://developers.google.com/gmail/api/quickstart/python and click on "Enable Gmail API", then click on "Download client configuration" and save this .json file in the same folder as these scripts.
Then run the script 1 get labels ids.py. You will be sent to a consent screen: choose your Gmail account where you want to download your email and accept the credential (this will save a token file so that the next time, you don't have to go through this consent screen).
How to use
Don't forget to change the folder path
Because GMAIL API doesn't use the labels'names but the labels' IDs you need to first get all the labels' IDs with the script 1 get labels ids.py
Then copy the ID for the label you need in 2 download email as eml files.py
Run 2 download email as eml files.py: your emails will be save as .eml file in a subfolder "emails as eml"
Open the program eml-to-pdf-converter and load your folder to convert the .eml files to .pdf files.
Run 4 process files.py, if you want to:
- copy only last emails of a thread
- get path of emails with date problem (added zzz in filename)
- delete all .eml
Alternatives
Different configurations of folder/filename can be found in cf 5 alternatives.py (used it instead of 2 download email as eml files.py ― the diffenrent part need to be uncommented)
- folder = subject / filename = date
- folder = threadID / filename = emailID
- no folder / filename = date (converted into " 2017_02_04 05-45-32") + subject