Gmail Client for Alfred

[idea4IT]

Hi folks,

 

I'm working on this new workflow which allows you to control your Gmail emails with Alfred.

 

 

Features

• Quickly access your latest emails with Alfred
• Supported actions:
  • Mark As Read/Unread
  • Archive
  • Move To Inbox/Trash
  • Quick reply
  • Add label
• Automatically uses a dark or light icon set depending on your current Alfred theme
• Background cache refresh
• Uses the official Gmail API to securely access your Gmail account
• Uses OAuth 2.0 to authorize the workflow
• Saves your access_token securely in OS X's keychain

 

Feel free to give some feedback!

 

Github: https://github.com/fniephaus/alfred-gmail

 

Download-Link: https://github.com/fniephaus/alfred-gmail/releases/latest

Edited December 16, 2014 by fniephaus

[raguay.customct]

It complains that gflags library is not installed. I installed gflags with HomeBrew, but that did not help. I do not know that library, so not sure on how to tackle the problem.

[idea4IT]

Thanks Raguay. Looks like a dependency was missing.

 

Could you try again with v0.2?

 

https://github.com/fniephaus/alfred-gmail/releases/download/v0.2/Gmail-Client-for-Alfred.alfredworkflow

[raguay.customct]

Okay. That one works. Are you planning on multile accounts? I run 3 all the time (missions, freelance, and work).

[idea4IT]

Supporting multiple accounts should be possible but seems to require lots of work.

I believe if it support multiple accounts, you'd also like to have a unified inbox, etc. which needs to be implemented as well.

 

So probably not, at least for now...

[deanishe]

Very nice workflow.

 

Richard: You should just be able to make a copy of the workflow for each account (changing the bundle ID and keyword). Your credentials are stored under the bundle ID in your Keychain, so they won't clash.

Edited August 15, 2014 by deanishe

[raguay.customct]

Very nice workflow.

 

Richard: You should just be able to make a copy of the workflow for each account (changing the bundle ID and keyword). Your credentials are stored under the bundle ID in your Keychain, so they won't clash.

 

Yea, that is what I ended up doing. Just changed the keyword to differentiate accounts.

[Florian]

Wow that's actually great Any chance of a "mark as read" action through another modifier key (like "fn")? That'd perfectly fit the way i use my gmail.

[politicus]

What a great workflow! 

 

Could we only search against the unread messages? 

That would be awesome.

[idea4IT]

@Florian: "mark as read" action is now supported in v0.3!

 

@politicus: all you have to do, is to replace labelIds=['INBOX'] with labelIds=['UNREAD'] in the following line:

https://github.com/fniephaus/alfred-gmail/blob/0a63a64e198b7c48799ffef2e8cf89b47e6b368a/src/gmail_refresh.py#L58

 

I kept this workflow quite simple for now, but I could certainly turn this into a more complex client with label and global search support...

[politicus]

Awesome. 

 

Keep up the good work.

[smarg19]

Damn. This is well done. Very nice, thank you.

[40-02]

Awsome!!! I love it from the first sight! 

It what I was dreaming about for so long!!!!

 

Is it possible to send short replys on messages via alfred? 

 

For example with command (after choosing needed conversation) - like:

 

gmail: %this is reply text%

[40-02]

I think it can become small sparrow for geeks. 

There hundred ways how to build interaction with gmail via alfred. 

[idea4IT]

Sure, I could extend the client, so that you can send emails.

 

How about everyone add their feature requests to the issue tracker and vote for features?

https://github.com/fniephaus/alfred-gmail/issues

Edited August 20, 2014 by fniephaus

[idea4IT]

@leoku: I'm working on a big update including default label support (e.g. Inbox, Spam, Trash...) and quick replies!

 

Should be ready next weekend!

[frankspin]

This is very awesome, nicely done.

[idea4IT]

Hey guys,

 

So I've been working on version 1.0...and here's a first beta version:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/h63h67ctjv4kz6h/Gmail-Client-for-Alfred.alfredworkflow?dl=0

 

 

Since the workflow can't delete your emails forever, there shouldn't be much to worry about.

 

Feel free to give it a go and give some feedback!

[katyarun]

@fniephaus

Hi! 

Latest workflow (initially install) not work for inbox label without first workflow's authorisation.

 

By the way, thank you, really helpful workflows)

 

And just one thing: both workflows don’t works if path to Alfred’s sync folder contains non-latin symbols (like russian, for example), but it’s not very important  

Edited August 29, 2014 by katyarun

[deanishe]

And just one thing: both workflows don’t works if path to Alfred’s sync folder contains non-latin symbols (like russian, for example), but it’s not very important  

 

That's 100% my fault: the problem is in a library that I wrote, which this workflow uses. I released a new version about 20 minutes ago that fixes this problem. I'm sure Fabio will update his workflow very soon to fix my error, but if you really can't wait, download the updated library from here, extract the zip file, and replace the workflow subdirectory in the Gmail workflow with the one from the zip file. That should fix the problem.

Edited September 2, 2014 by deanishe

[idea4IT]

That's 100% my fault: the problem is in a library that I wrote, which this workflow uses. I released a new version about 20 minutes ago that fixes this problem. I'm sure Fabio will update his workflow very soon to fix my error, but if you really can't wait, download the updated library from here, extract the zip file, and replace the workflow subdirectory in the Gmail workflow with the one from the zip file. That should fix the problem.

 

Don't do it, katyarun! This workflow is using a custom alfred-workflow version. The official version does not include the updater yet and will also break the workflow.

 

I will fix everything soon...let's just wait for more bug reports

Edited August 29, 2014 by fniephaus

[deanishe]

Oops! My bad

 

Out of interest, in what way would the "standard" version break the workflow? Is that just down to the lacking update functionality?

Edited August 29, 2014 by deanishe

[idea4IT]

Yes that's right...it wouldn't know what to do with update_config={..} 

Haven't done anything else to it!

[mixterdee]

I keep getting an error.

 

Error in Workflow 'path to Alfred preferences'

'Labellds'

 

The authentication for Gmail completed successfully so wondered if I need something else to make it work.

 

Thanks in advance 

[idea4IT]

I keep getting an error.

 

Error in Workflow 'path to Alfred preferences'

'Labellds'

 

The authentication for Gmail completed successfully so wondered if I need something else to make it work.

 

Thanks in advance 

 

Can you provide more information on this? In which line is the workflow failing?

I assume you're working with the beta version?