I am trying to run a python code to access to my email address, the code seems running well but i cannot get access to my messages due to some security credential from google, can any one of you help me to fix this please.
this is the error I am getting : error: b'[AUTHENTICATIONFAILED] Invalid credentials (Failure)'
the code is compiling correctly just i think i need to google modifications?? and the code is below::
username= "xxxxx"#just enter the name and passwords
password= "xxxxx"
def clean(text):
return "".join(c if c.isalnum() else "_" for c in text)
imap = imaplib.IMAP4_SSL("imap.gmail.com")
imap.login(username, password)
status, messages = imap.select("INBOX")
# number of top emails to fetch
N = 3
# total number of emails
messages = int(messages[0])
for i in range(messages, messages-N, -1):
# fetch the email message by ID
res, msg = imap.fetch(str(i), "(RFC822)")
for response in msg:
if isinstance(response, tuple):
# parse a bytes email into a message object
msg = email.message_from_bytes(response[1])
# decode the email subject
subject, encoding = decode_header(msg["Subject"])[0]
if isinstance(subject, bytes):
# if it's a bytes, decode to str
subject = subject.decode(encoding)
# decode email sender
From, encoding = decode_header(msg.get("From"))[0]
if isinstance(From, bytes):
From = From.decode(encoding)
print("Subject:", subject)
print("From:", From)
# if the email message is multipart
if msg.is_multipart():
# iterate over email parts
for part in msg.walk():
# extract content type of email
content_type = part.get_content_type()
content_disposition = str(part.get("Content-Disposition"))
try:
# get the email body
body = part.get_payload(decode=True).decode()
except:
pass
if content_type == "text/plain" and "attachment" not in content_disposition:
# print text/plain emails and skip attachments
print(body)
elif "attachment" in content_disposition:
# download attachment
filename = part.get_filename()
if filename:
folder_name = clean(subject)
if not os.path.isdir(folder_name):
# make a folder for this email (named after the subject)
os.mkdir(folder_name)
filepath = os.path.join(folder_name, filename)
# download attachment and save it
open(filepath, "wb").write(part.get_payload(decode=True))
else:
# extract content type of email
content_type = msg.get_content_type()
# get the email body
body = msg.get_payload(decode=True).decode()
if content_type == "text/plain":
# print only text email parts
print(body)
if content_type == "text/html":
# if it's HTML, create a new HTML file and open it in browser
folder_name = clean(subject)
if not os.path.isdir(folder_name):
# make a folder for this email (named after the subject)
os.mkdir(folder_name)
filename = "index.html"
filepath = os.path.join(folder_name, filename)
# write the file
open(filepath, "w").write(body)
# open in the default browser
webbrowser.open(filepath)
print("="*100)
# close the connection and logout
imap.close()
imap.logout()
