Scraping All Written Correspondance With My Wife

Jul 22, 2018

An Anniversary gift

Here’s an anniversary gift I made for my wife: https://very-good-website.xyz/inbox-all/ and some scattered notes I took building it.

The source code for this is on github: https://github.com/jafow/inbox-all

v0.0.1 too narrow

iterate over messages, check if they are from me to A or vice versa;
walk() when message is multipart
checking only for Content-Type text/html (didn’t know about .get_payload(decode=True)
only used check for msg['From'] property, but msg.get_from() catches more

why are so many messages being skipped?

is it content type “multipart/alternative” not getting picked up?
Discovery?!: if a message is multipart, get_pyaload() returns a list of all parts of the message. calling get_payload() on each of those returns the body of the part

found a bug

when finding an multipart message, I was walking the message, but not iterating over its parts, instead just calling m.get_paylaod() from with in the

# etc ...
for part in msg.walk()
    # should call part.get_payload()
    # etc ...

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