I want to get a list (subject, datetime, sender) of sent email from a specific user using google-api-python-client
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I found the G Suite Email Audit API Developer's Guide but unfortunately there aren't any python examples.
Is this even possible with google-api-python-client
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The G Suite Email Audit API is one of the older APIs that still uses the Google Data API protocol. This protocol is not supported by the google-api-python-client, but you have to use instead the gdata-python-client. This library is old and Google is not updating it anymore:
- it only works with Python 2.x
- to perform OAuth2 authentication you need to integrate it with the oauth2client library
Here is a sample on how to use it:
from __future__ import print_function
import argparse
import gdata.apps.audit.service
from oauth2client import file, client, tools
SCOPES = ['https://apps-apis.google.com/a/feeds/compliance/audit/',]
# be sure to update with the correct user
ID = 'user@domain.com'
store = file.Storage('email-audit{}.json'.format(ID))
creds = store.get()
# client_id.json is the client_id file generated from the developer console project
if not creds or creds.invalid:
flags = argparse.ArgumentParser(parents=[tools.argparser]).parse_args()
flags.auth_host_port = [8010, 8020]
flow = client.flow_from_clientsecrets('client_id.json', SCOPES)
creds = tools.run_flow(flow, store, flags)
access_token, expires_in = creds.get_access_token()
gd_client = gdata.apps.audit.service.AuditService(domain=ID.split('@')[1])
gd_client.additional_headers[u'Authorization'] = u'Bearer {0}'.format(access_token)
monitors = gd_client.getEmailMonitors(ID.split('@')[0])
print(monitors)
If you want the original sample from Google, you can find it here. It is much more complex than mine and I doubt it will work as it is not performing OAuth2 authentication; use it as a reference.