rounakdatta / gmail-attachments

Interface to view/download attachments from your e-mail based on a specific sender

Gmail Attachment Downloader

This program is a Python script that downloads attachments found in the inbox of the user's Gmail account, based on a specific sender's address.

Getting Started

Prerequisites

• Python3 Python 2.5+

Installing

1. Enable IMAP after logging in to your Google (Gmail) account.
2. Give permission to less secure apps in Gmail.
3. Download/clone repository.
4. Run python gui.py

[Note that a CLI-specific version has also been added; and can be used by : python ga-cli.py]

Usage

• Interface presents you with Your e-mail, Password and Query e-mail fields.
• After correctly entering all the fields, hit Enter or click OK.
• Finally, it will download all attachments from the queried sender's emails onto the specific directory.
• You can view each email's contents from the list displayed.
• It will not download an attachment if it already exists in the directory.

Built With

• Python
• QT 4
• The following packages from the Python 3 standard libraries:
  • imaplib
  • email