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Thursday, Oct. 21 2004 | Author: JCIt looks like the folks at GoogleLabs have added an RSS/Atom feed to Gmail. Very cool. It’s even SSL to keep things nice and safe. Now, where can I get one of these to install for my regular pop/imap accounts? I’m hooked!
Thanks, Netaku!
Update: Just to clarify… the “visit site” link below is the gmail atom feed link. If you want to subscribe to it in your RSS reader, though, you’ll probably need to use a URL in the following format:
https://USERNAME:PASSWORD@gmail.google.com/gmail/feed/atom
That’ll plug your username and password into the request, since your RSS reader probably can’t prompt you for one. Also, this is mostly just to let you know you have mail.. it only displays what you’d see on the gmail inbox screen. This is probably what they’re using for the Gmail Notifier, behind the scenes.
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35 Responses for "Gmail RSS Feed"
October 21st, 2004 at 10:29
1ive heard a lot about this rss stuff…..is it really useful or just nice to have?
October 21st, 2004 at 11:51
2Seems like it just tells you when you have new messages in your inbox.
I had heard about this back when they released the new features like drafts and inline contacts. But have never seen the ATOM button show up on my inbox page.
October 21st, 2004 at 14:06
3Gmail feed? Where? Donde? Shit. Joder.
October 21st, 2004 at 15:20
4where where where please tell me where
October 21st, 2004 at 16:46
5Sorry if this wasn’t clear… in the post here, where it says “visit site” — that’s the atom feed link. Just put your gmail userid and password in and it loads the XML.
October 21st, 2004 at 22:26
6I got to the page with the xml, but when I tried to subscribe to it with bloglines it said no feed was found. Am I doing something wrong?
October 22nd, 2004 at 00:52
7It doesn’t work if you’re at the feed location. Also, it won’t work as a live bookmark because it’s not an RSS feed. If you’re using Sage or any other Atom-compatible aggregator, it will work perfectly fine with that.
October 22nd, 2004 at 01:14
8I LOVE THIS – Gmail has once again that this is not your ordinary e-mail account! I use Sage on the new Firefox 1.0PR build and it worked like a charm!
October 22nd, 2004 at 01:16
9uhhh it is late the above comment should have read:
I LOVE THIS – Gmail has once again *proved* that this is not your ordinary e-mail account! I use Sage on the new Firefox 1.0PR build and it worked like a charm!
/I will always use preview before posting . . .
December 8th, 2004 at 16:32
10Doesn’t work with RSS plugin for trillian =/
December 23rd, 2004 at 18:04
11If you subscribe to your Inbox using Bloglines does that mean that Bloglines will now be searching your Inbox and allowing other people to subscribe to it?
April 4th, 2005 at 09:49
12Hi Stuart
I think we can set the feed to be ‘private’ in Bloglines which probably means nobody else has access to it ?
cheers
Idzap
May 10th, 2005 at 15:04
13I’ve set up the URL in News Crawler and whatever I do it errors with Can not load SSL library.
What am I doing wrong?
If I click on the link, it asks for my username and password, once I put that in it gives me the XML page, no use to me though. :-(
Kol
May 22nd, 2005 at 14:03
14i am naveed from paksitan . my age is 17 please give ghive me gmail i.d contact me at naveed_ali@msn.com , saddy_maddy@hotmail.com
June 23rd, 2005 at 12:41
15Apparently Gmail has changed the URL. It should now point to:
https://USERNAME:PASSWORD@mail.google.com/mail/feed/atom
In other words, if it said gmail, change it to mail, and it’ll work. A great addition to my aggregator.
July 4th, 2005 at 20:33
16BTW this not how the google mail notifier works.
It works via the standard HTTP way.
Also btw, the Remember personal info should NOT clear out the data i just entered if i change my mind to not save my info!
July 5th, 2005 at 21:00
17Unfortunately, if you have more than one Gmail account, it changes the description for each feed to the same description and does not properly send one to their proper account.
July 29th, 2005 at 02:05
18I dont want to read this bullshit anymore
September 14th, 2005 at 20:58
19stupid spammer
October 24th, 2005 at 16:57
20Why the hell would anyone spam something like this? Why not a forum or something more practical?
October 31st, 2005 at 09:57
21anyone here know how to get a list of my contacts from gmail using the feed? Maybe other folders rather than just the inbox?
December 13th, 2005 at 12:27
22I’ve never been able to get the feed to work in Google’s own feed reader. Frustrating. Does their feed reader not work with https or passwords or something?
April 20th, 2006 at 17:05
23Works great in Feed Demon with multiple gmail accounts, with a slight modification to the above. If you add feeds for multiple accounts, just slightly change the URL by putting a question mark with a different string after the question mark on each different account feed. Google throws away the question mark and anything after it, but the aggregator (Feed Demon, in this case) sees that’s it’s a different feed and happily scans all of them without complaining.
April 30th, 2006 at 11:50
24Because of SSL, authentication works quite different in RSS readers from web browsers…
Here’s a little demonstration on how you would get the XML in visual basic.
[code]
Imports System
Imports System.Net
Imports System.IO
Public Sub Main()
Dim Client As New WebClient()
Client.Credentials = New System.Net.NetworkCredential("username","password")
Dim FeedStream As Stream = Client.OpenRead("https://gmail.google.com/gmail/feed/atom")
Dim Reader As StreamReader = New StreamReader(FeedStream)
Dim TextInXML As String = Reader.ReadToEnd()
Console.Write(TextInXML)
End Sub
[/code]
September 21st, 2006 at 21:08
25ERROR in YOUR ATOM FEED URL
the two instances of “gmail” should just be “mail”
January 23rd, 2007 at 01:03
26nope, ‘gmail’ works, gets converted to ‘mail’
DUMBASS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
February 22nd, 2007 at 08:24
27I have tryied This whole convo of ideas gmails’ rss feed does not work in their own reader. If it does it is not one of the above formulas.
September 17th, 2008 at 07:12
28Just add
https://mail.google.com/mail/feed/atom
to your feed…
October 11th, 2008 at 15:10
29there’s no rss support for it.. hope goog will add it soon.
November 24th, 2008 at 03:14
30Thanks very much – that last link
https://mail.google.com/mail/feed/atom
works in Opera.
November 14th, 2009 at 09:16
31Really nice.
November 27th, 2009 at 05:57
32Thanks for share.. very helpfull..
December 4th, 2009 at 20:20
33TY a lot!
December 6th, 2009 at 21:36
34TY a lot!
March 9th, 2010 at 11:01
35Thanks for the tip. I tried it out in Outlook 2007, it works fine.
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