ChrisVilches/Gmail-Empty-Trash

Python script to empty Gmail trash using the Gmail API

Gmail Empty Trash

Python script to empty Gmail trash using the Gmail API.

Install

pip install -r requirements.txt

Must enable Gmail API: https://developers.google.com/gmail/api

Then, it's necessary to adjust the .sample files with the corresponding information (and remove the .sample part of the filename).

Run

python main.py

Note: Use Python 3

Troubleshooting

Authenticate for the first time

1. Create the credentials in the Google Cloud web app and setup the credentials.json file accordingly.
2. rm token.json
3. Run the script, and open in a browser the URL that appears in the console.
4. After going through the Google Auth dialog, you'll reach a page which URL is localhost, and if it's running on a server, then it won't be accessible (if it's local, then auth should end successfully).
5. In order to access localhost, create an SSH tunnel using ssh -L 8080:127.0.0.1:8080 USER@REMOTE_HOST -p PORT (Note: apparently the URL must be localhost, or else Google considers it to be insecure and fails).
6. Reload the page in the browser, and you should see The authentication flow has completed, you may close this window..