{"id":9062,"date":"2014-06-28T20:44:20","date_gmt":"2014-06-29T00:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=9062"},"modified":"2014-07-01T18:52:12","modified_gmt":"2014-07-01T22:52:12","slug":"new-gmail-api","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/28\/new-gmail-api\/","title":{"rendered":"New Gmail API"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/googleappsdeveloper.blogspot.com\/2014\/06\/introducing-new-gmail-api.html\">Google<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/googleappsdeveloper.blogspot.com\/2014\/06\/introducing-new-gmail-api.html\"><p>For a while now, many of you have been asking for a better way to access data to build apps that integrate with Gmail. While IMAP is great at what it was designed for (connecting email clients to email servers in a standard way), it wasn&rsquo;t 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&rsquo;re launching the beta of the <a href=\"https:\/\/developers.google.com\/gmail\/api\/\">new Gmail API<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Designed to let you easily deliver Gmail-enabled features, this new API is a standard Google API, which gives RESTful access to a user&rsquo;s mailbox under OAuth 2.0 authorization. It supports CRUD operations on true Gmail datatypes such as messages, threads, labels and drafts.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Update (2014-07-01): <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mattcutts\/status\/481927870499942401\">Matt Cutts<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/atp.fm\/episodes\/71\">ATP<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mattcutts\/status\/481927870499942401\"><p>Just confirmed with right people: IMAP remains fully supported and isn&rsquo;t going away.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/developers.google.com\/gmail\/api\/\">Google<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/developers.google.com\/gmail\/api\/\"><p>The Gmail API should not be used to replace IMAP for full-fledged email client access. Instead, see <a href=\"https:\/\/developers.google.com\/gmail\/oauth_overview\">IMAP and SMTP<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google: For a while now, many of you have been asking for a better way to access data to build apps that integrate with Gmail. While IMAP is great at what it was designed for (connecting email clients to email servers in a standard way), it wasn&rsquo;t really designed to do all of the cool [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[150,433,424,96,50],"class_list":["post-9062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-email","tag-gmail","tag-imap","tag-web","tag-webapi"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9062"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9070,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9062\/revisions\/9070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}