Added python example for gmail notifications

snippets/notify.py

+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+
+__version__ = '0.1'
+
+import gi
+gi.require_version('Gtk', '3.0')
+gi.require_version('Notify', '0.7')
+gi.require_version('AppIndicator3', '0.1')
+
+from gi.repository import Notify, Gtk, GLib
+
+from urllib.request import FancyURLopener
+from datetime import datetime, date, time, timedelta
+import os.path, sys, getopt
+from subprocess import call
+
+serialisedvalue=0;
+serialiseddate=0;
+
+def callback():
+        call(["chromium", "gmail.com"])
+
+def serialise(unread):
+        try:
+                f = open("mailcount", "w")
+                try:
+                        f.write(unread+"\n") # Write a string to a file
+                        f.write(datetime.now().strftime('%b %d %Y %I:%M%p'))
+                finally:
+                        f.close()
+        except IOError:
+                pass
+
+def deserialise():
+        global serialisedvalue
+        global serialiseddate
+        try:
+                f = open("mailcount", "r")
+                try:
+                        serialisedvalue = f.readline().rstrip()
+                        serialiseddate = datetime.strptime(f.readline(), '%b %d %Y %I:%M%p')
+                finally:
+                        f.close()
+        except IOError:
+                pass
+
+def notif(unread):
+        Notify.init ("New Mail")
+        if unread != "1":
+                Hello=Notify.Notification.new ("New mail","You have "+unread+" unread mails","/usr/share/icons/Faenza/actions/96/mail-forward.png")
+        else :
+                Hello=Notify.Notification.new ("New mail","You have "+unread+" unread mails","/usr/share/icons/Faenza/actions/96/mail-forward.png")
+        Hello.add_action('action', 'Read', callback, None, None)
+        Hello.show ()
+
+def main(argv):
+
+        notify=0
+        forced=0
+        try:
+                opts, args = getopt.getopt(argv,"nf",['notify','force-notify'])
+        except getopt.GetoptError:
+                print("unreadgmail.py [-n --notify] [-f --force-notify")
+                sys.exit(2)
+        for opt,args in opts:
+                if opt in ("-n", "--notify"):
+                        notify=1
+                elif opt in ("-f","--force-notify"):
+                        forced=1
+        #url = 'https://%s:%s@mail.google.com/mail/feed/atom' % ("myaccount", "mypassword")
+        url = 'https://%s:%s@mail.google.com/mail/feed/atom' % ("ulisse.alb", "oklahoma:2014")
+        opener = FancyURLopener()
+        page = opener.open(url)
+        contents = page.read().decode('utf-8')
+        ifrom = contents.index('<fullcount>') + 11
+        ito   = contents.index('</fullcount>')
+        unread = contents[ifrom:ito]
+        print("Unread messages : "+unread)
+        if notify==1 and forced==0:
+                if os.path.exists("mailcount"):
+                        deserialise()
+                else:
+                        serialise(unread)
+                        deserialise()
+                if unread != "0":
+                        if unread != serialisedvalue:
+                                notif(unread)
+                                serialise(unread)
+                        elif ((datetime.now() - serialiseddate) > timedelta(hours=1)):
+                                notif(unread)
+        if forced==1:
+                notif(unread)
+        GLib.MainLoop().run()
+
+
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+   main(sys.argv[1:])