gmailcontacts

Google Contacts

The app will extract all contacts from Gmail emails. It takes From, To, and Cc fields and saves them into a MongoDB database. Each time the app is executed it will only scan new emails and add them into a DB (if it's not in DB already).

Parsed fields from email

The utility parses below fields from email:

• To - To email address
• From - From
• Cc - CC

If the email already exists in the DB, the app will ignore it and not add or update it. Otherwise it will add it.

DB Collections

The utility creates and saves data into bellow MongoDB collections:

Stores all parsed emails. Has these fields:

• email - the rmail from To, From, Cc fields
• name - name of the contact
• account - name of the account. The account represents the unique field that groups all parsed contacts. It's exits mostly so in the future this can be a multi-tenant system.

Settings collection stores the last date when we parsed the email. It has these fields:

• saved - last date the utility processed email. This is used so we only check messages after this date and don't constantly check the entire mailbox.
• account - the account name for the setting

Getting Started

1. Prerequesites

To run the app quickstart, you'll need:

• Go, latest version recommended.
• Git, latest version recommended.
• Access to the internet and a web browser.
• A Google account with Gmail enabled.

2. Get the Code

Use Git to get the code:

    $ git clone https://github.com/vcollak/GmailContacts.git
    Cloning into 'gmailcontacts'...
    remote: Counting objects: 87, done.
    remote: Compressing objects: 100% (84/84), done.
    remote: Total 87 (delta 42), reused 0 (delta 0)
    Unpacking objects: 100% (87/87), done.
    Checking connectivity... done.

2. Enable Gmail API

1. Use this wizard to create or select a project in the Google - - Developers Console and automatically enable the API. Click the Go to credentials button to continue.
2. At the top of the page, select the OAuth consent screen tab. Select an Email address, enter a Product name if not already set, and click the Save button.
3. Back on the Credentials tab, click the Add credentials button and select OAuth 2.0 client ID.
4. Select the application type Other and click the Create button.
5. Click OK to dismiss the resulting dialog.
6. Click the (Download JSON) button to the right of the client ID. Move this file to the same directory where you downloaded the code and rename it to client_secret.json.

3. Configure the app

Configure known emails and Mongo constants in main.go. The known emails is used to ignore any known emails that you don't want to add to the DB. Because we are parsing To, many of the emails may be your actual email. It would be good to simply ignore it. The accountName does not have to be the same email, but it would not hurt to make it the same email.

var knownEmails = []string{"[email protected]"}

const (
  server      = "127.0.0.1"     //DB server address
  dbName      = "GmailContacts" //DB name
  accountName = "[email protected]"  //the user's account name
)

4. Start MongoDB

Make sure you start your MongoDB (or the utility has access to it). If the DB does not exist, it will create it and all the necessary collections. (The current version of the script does not authenticate to Mongo DB and basically just assumes localhost access without credentials.)

5. Run the app

Run the GmailContacts app using go:

$ go run main.go

The first time the app starts, the utility will first check for security credentials. Specifically, it will ask the user to open a specific link in a browser. The page will ask the user to allow the utility to access Gmail. Once approved, the user needs to paste the token back into the utility. The utility will then save the Gmail access token into ".credentials" directory.

#########################
#     Authorization     #
#########################

Open below link in your browser. Then Allow the client to access your mailbox,get the token and paste it below

https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/auth?access_type=offline&client_id=4523535455-jdfsfsfdgg7dfadfafdfsdflltghgdk.apps.googleusercontent.com&redirect_uri=urn%3Aieaf%3Afg%3Aoauth%3A2.0%3Aoob&response_type=code&scope=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.googleapis.com%2Fauth%2Fgmail.readonly&state=state-token

Paste the token here:4/CdflaksdjhfaldkfhaiC9mWGdfadhlfhaslfasdkdasd

Afterwards the utility will scan user's Gmail, extract the emails and save them into the Mongo DB collection (collection configured as "dbName"). While scanning it will print a log similar to below:

2015/09/27 17:02:51 Starting...
2015/09/27 17:02:51 Did not find last saved for: [email protected]
2015/09/27 17:02:51 Retrieving all messages.
2015/09/27 17:03:03 --------------
2015/09/27 17:03:03 Processing 100 messages...
2015/09/27 17:03:05 2015-09-27 16:02:31 -0500 CDT
2015/09/27 17:03:05 Saved last message date: 2015/09/27
2015/09/27 17:03:05 From:Twitter <[email protected]>
2015/09/27 17:03:05 To:OpenKloud <[email protected]>
2015/09/27 17:03:05 Known email. Ignoring: [email protected]
2015/09/27 17:03:05 Subject:Follow Khloé, Blake Shelton and YouTube on Twitter!

2015/09/27 17:03:07 2015-09-27 15:10:06 -0500 CDT
2015/09/27 17:03:07 From:Houston Robotics Club <[email protected]>
2015/09/27 17:03:07 To:[email protected]
2015/09/27 17:03:07 Known email. Ignoring: [email protected]
2015/09/27 17:03:07 Subject:Saturday: Join 5 Robot Nerds at "Telepresence Robot Project Meetup"

5. View the data

Parsed emails from TO, CC, and FROM will be saved into the Mongo DB.

Troubleshooting

Mongo Error

If you get the below error, make sure your mongo DB is started and listens to the specified server address.

2015/09/28 19:00:59 Starting...
2015/09/28 19:01:11 Unable to connect to DB. Server: 127.0.0.1  dbName: GmailContactsA
2015/09/28 19:01:11 Exiting...

Gmail Error

If you get the bellow error, make sure you configure the app within google developer console and download the client_secret.json.

2015/09/28 19:00:59 Starting...
2015/09/28 18:57:13 Unable to access Gmail. Error:open client_secret.json: no such file or directory
exit status 1

Resources

https://developers.google.com/gmail/api/quickstart/go https://console.developers.google.com https://godoc.org/google.golang.org/api/gmail/v1 https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4021

Credits

Based on Google API samples.

Contact

Follow Vladimir Collak on Twitter @vcollak

Blog: www.collak.net

The MIT License

Copyright (c) 2015 Vladimir Collak

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