Standalone Gmail Notifier

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I noticed this topic standalone gmail notifier - Syntax & Programs - Arduino Forum had no replies so I thought I'd add one:

Seems the Gmail Atom Feed allows an easy way to get info on a gmail account using just a URL.

This URL returns some XML with a list of unread messages in your inbox:
https://username@gmail.com:password@mail.google.com/mail/feed/atom/

Simply extract the number between the and tags to get the count.

The TextFinder library would make this pretty simple (Arduino Playground - TextFinder)!

Also, you can check for unread messages using tags. The following gets counts of unread messages tagged as "Family":
https://username@gmail.com:password@mail.google.com/mail/feed/atom/Family

I hope this is useful!
Bob

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very usefull, even more if you responded to the thread in question :wink:

(you still can do that)

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The original post was in the old forum which I thought was now read-only, did I miss something or did you?

Anyway, the above works great from a browser but long wordy URLs with authentication embedded are not possible for the Arduino and Ethernet lib AFAIK. I guess it all comes back to Googles tricky authentication process once again.

I did get this working using Arduino code that talked to an intermediate PHP script on a web server.

Any other ideas on how to make this work with a stand-alone 'Duino and an enet shield?

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I think it comes back to the ethernet shield library not being able to handle SSL (https port 443) connections.

edit: If you search the forum for one of my email smtp sketches, it shows how to send to Gmail accounts, but you need a commercial ip address or it will be refused.

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I test the various provider for the library

And i find this that work for all, but without attachments
https://www.mischianti.org/forums/forum/mischiantis-libraries/emailsender-send-email-with-attachments/smtp-server-to-use-with-the-emailsender-library/
Bye