This script will help you delete unnecessary emails on gmail. It will provide you with options to delete all emails, emails from certain category and emails from a certain user . It also has additional features for emptying trash, deleting spam emails, getting statistics for email size, or displaying frequency of sent/received emails to/from a certain user.
- Python
- The pip package management tool for Python
- Access to Internet and a web browser
- A Google account with Gmail account enabled
- matplotlib for Python
Follow the instructions
-
Optional: Create a virtual environment
-
Run:
pip install --upgrade google-api-python-client
(Check requirements.txt for additional informations about requirements for installation)
- Copy json file generated from Gmail API to the repository directory
Run script inside src folder with:
python gmail_deleter.py
You can add extra options -s or --secret with a path to your "credentials.json" file.
python gmail_deleter.py -s credentials.json
The script provides the following options:
- deletion of all messages
- deletion of all messages from a certain category (i.e. Promotions, Forums, Social...)
- deletion of all messages from a certain user
- emptying trash
- emptying spam
If one of the first three options are selected, those messages will be moved to the trash.