Python vs Gmail - how to print subject

[layr]

I'm using this python with conky to check email count.
How could the last mail (new or old) subject be printed out?


#!/usr/bin/python
import urllib2
import base64
import os

#check internet connection:
try:
urllib2.urlopen("http://www.google.com")
except urllib2.URLError:
g = open("/home/laur/.conky/conky_connection_down.dat", "w")
g.write( "This file indicates there is no active Internet connection." )
g.close()
if (os.path.exists('/home/laur/.conky/gmail_count.dat')):
os.remove('/home/laur/.conky/gmail_count.dat')
else:
# Enter your username and password below within double quotes
# eg. username="username" and password="password"
# Install base64 for simple password encryption: "sudo apt-get install cl-base64"
# To get the encrypted version-> "print base64.b64encode("yourpasswd")"
domain="mail.google.com"
username="USERNAME"
password=base64.b64decode("ENCODED_PASSWD")
com="wget -O - https://"+username+":"+password+"@mail.google.com/mail/feed/atom --no-check-certificate"

temp=os.popen(com)
msg=temp.read()
index=msg.find("<fullcount>")
index2=msg.find("</fullcount>")
fc=int(msg[index+11:index2])

if fc==0:
if (os.path.exists('/home/laur/.conky/gmail_count.dat')):
os.remove('/home/laur/.conky/gmail_count.dat')
if (os.path.exists('/home/laur/.conky/conky_connection_down.dat')):
os.remove('/home/laur/.conky/conky_connection_down.dat')
else:
f = open("/home/laur/.conky/gmail_count.dat", "w")
f.write( str(fc) )
f.close()
if (os.path.exists('/home/laur/.conky/conky_connection_down.dat')):
os.remove('/home/laur/.conky/conky_connection_down.dat')

[MadCow108]

why the fragile scraping?

ever heard of imap?


import getpass, imaplib

m = imaplib.IMAP4_SSL("imap.googlemail.com","993")
m.login(getpass.getuser(), getpass.getpass())
m.select("INBOX", readonly=True)
print m.search(None, '(UNSEEN)')
# fetch message 1832
#m.fetch(1832, '(RFC822)')
m.close()
m.logout()