Gmailr: An Unofficial Javascript API for Gmail

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90 points·jamesjyu··11 comments

awesome... I am one of the founders of Inbox2.com; I am actually working on something quite similar that i wanted to open source in the end anyway. I will check this out; if it works for me i'll look into some form of merge perhaps

Many thanks for sharing.

Great! Would love to connect once you're ready. My email is jamesjacobyu@[you can probably guess where]

Thanks! I'm also an avid 0Boxer user, now I'm longing for a zero inbox even more.

0Boxer actually looks entertaining. Are there any security considerations to worry about?

I can promise you I don't look at the contents of your email -- I only gather statistics necessary to support the gaming mechanics. In fact, I never ask for offline access to your Gmail account at all.

Also, data is sent to my server via https.

Wow, this is excellent. Great work. Does this expose access to Gmail Tasks too?

Nope, but that'd be pretty cool. It's pretty basic right now, and exposes some basic user events and data. What I'm hoping is for others to use and extend it.

Great!

BTW do you know any similar effort regarding Goole Reader?

Oxymoron: Unofficial API

It's not really an oxymoron--it just means it's a standardised way of interacting with something ("API") that isn't officially condoned/supported by the original creator ("Unofficial").

API stands for Application Programming Interface.

What in that says anything about being official or not?!

There are a TON of APIs that make it easy to hook into unsupported channels.

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