{"id":22078,"date":"2014-06-26T10:21:33","date_gmt":"2014-06-26T08:21:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=22078"},"modified":"2014-06-26T10:22:32","modified_gmt":"2014-06-26T08:22:32","slug":"google-introduces-gmail-api","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2014\/06\/26\/google-introduces-gmail-api\/","title":{"rendered":"Google introduces Gmail API"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Google is introducing the new Gmail API<\/a>:<\/p>\n

While IMAP is great at what it was designed for (connecting email clients to email servers in a standard way), it wasn\u2019t really designed to do all of the cool things that you have been working on, which is why this week at Google I\/O, we\u2019re launching the beta of the new Gmail API<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is somewhat expected:<\/p>\n

Designed to let you easily deliver Gmail-enabled features, this new API is a standard Google API, which gives RESTful access to a user\u2019s mailbox under OAuth 2.0 authorization. It supports CRUD operations on true Gmail datatypes such as messages, threads, labels and drafts.<\/p>\n

As a standard Google API, you make simple HTTPS calls and get your responses in JSON, XML or Google Protobuf formats.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is a nice bonus:<\/p>\n

In contrast to IMAP, which requires access to all of a user\u2019s messages for all operations, the new API gives fine-grained control to a user\u2019s mailbox. For example, if your app only needs to send mail on behalf of a user and does not need to read mail, you can limit your permission request to send-only.<\/p>\n

To keep in sync, the API allows you to query the inbox change history, thereby avoiding the need to do \u201carchaeology\u201d to figure out what changed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

They are also saying that it’s fast. \u00a0These are very welcome news indeed.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

Google is introducing the new Gmail API: While IMAP is great at what it was designed for (connecting email clients to email servers in a standard way), it wasn\u2019t really designed to do all of the cool things that you have been working on, which is why this week at Google I\/O, we\u2019re launching the … Continue reading Google introduces Gmail API<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,18,62,1334],"tags":[2404,72,1985],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-22078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-programming","category-technology","category-web-work","tag-api","tag-email","tag-google-gmail"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t