Ask HN: Know a decent Gmail library for Node?

6 pointsmadisonmay2 comments

I'm looking to authenticate users, search their inbox, and integrate those search results into an app I'm working on. Can anyone recommend a good NodeJS library for this kind of functionality?

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I know there are web services for working with mail like Context.io. Barring calling that, they probably get the data through IMAP or some other way to talk to Google, which likely has a NodeJS library.

Auth could then be treated separately as oauth/openid does it. I know I've requested permission for looking up the user profile including their gmail user ID before with that.

Honestly, though, most people who do anything significant with GMail end up writing a browser extension to get more access than you could ever get with APIs.

I also have a browser extension in the works for the app I'm coding up, so I might go that route. Anyhow, thanks for your feedback! Context.io will definitely be something I look into as well.

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