sudokuhk / del_gmail

Python script to delete mails from Gmail that match a keyword

Delete all the Emails from Gmail that match a search keyword.

Why?

You cannot delete tens of thousands mails at once on Gmail UI. It will fail at last. So I write a script to do that.

Usage

1. Install Google client library: pip install --upgrade google-api-python-client oauth2client.
2. Goto Gmail's Python API quickstart page, click "ENABLE THE GMAIL API" button. Put the downloaded credentials.json file in the same directory of this project.
3. Run python del_mail.py, it will open a webpage. Login to Gmail and click agree.
4. Input the keyword you want to delete. The script will show some mails that match the keyword. Press enter will delete all the mails that match the keyword.

Use Behind a Proxy

If Google is blocked in your country, you may what to use proxy for this script. An easy solution is to using proxychains-ng. Another note is open the login page manully and copy the verification code back to console. So the command is like:

proxychains4 -q python del_main.py --noauth_local_webserver