Is there a way to get the oldest UNREAD mail from a GMAIL mailbox using the REST API

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Is there a way using gmail rest API to get the oldest UNREAD mail or list eg. 10 oldest UNREAD mails?

Right now i am getting all unread mails from a specific email folder by looping using nextPage until i reach the last page. There i get the last message id, which seems to refer to the oldest email. I works and the mail id's seems to be listed in order newest first and oldest last in the list. This is the query i am using: https://gmail.googleapis.com/gmail/v1/users/a.b@gmail.com/messages?labelIds="folderI"&includeSpamTrash=false&pageToken="nextPage"&q=is:unread

Is there a more effective way to get the oldest UNREAD mail or to get a list of say the 10 oldest UNREAD mails?

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There is no direct way to do it, but you can use the the q parameter search properties Search operators you can use with Gmail to get the messages from a certain period or with a max date to get less emails to go through.

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