Gmail RSS Feed

Thursday, Oct. 21 2004 | Author: JC

It 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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27 Responses for "Gmail RSS Feed"

lok-lok

October 21st, 2004 at 10:29 am
1

ive heard a lot about this rss stuff…..is it really useful or just nice to have?
Jeremy Flint

October 21st, 2004 at 11:51 am
2

Seems 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.
Jason Marble

October 21st, 2004 at 2:06 pm
3

Gmail feed? Where? Donde? Shit. Joder.
Derek

October 21st, 2004 at 3:20 pm
4

where where where please tell me where
JC

October 21st, 2004 at 4:46 pm
5

Sorry 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.
Justin

October 21st, 2004 at 10:26 pm
6

I 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?
Netaku

October 22nd, 2004 at 12:52 am
7

It 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.
sojo_slim

October 22nd, 2004 at 1:14 am
8

I 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!
sojo_slim

October 22nd, 2004 at 1:16 am
9

uhhh 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 . . .
salweg

December 8th, 2004 at 4:32 pm
10

Doesn’t work with RSS plugin for trillian =/
Stuart Woodward

December 23rd, 2004 at 6:04 pm
11

If 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?
Idzap

April 4th, 2005 at 9:49 am
12

Hi Stuart

I think we can set the feed to be ‘private’ in Bloglines which probably means nobody else has access to it ?

cheers
Idzap
Kol Tregaskes

May 10th, 2005 at 3:04 pm
13

I’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
naveedali

May 22nd, 2005 at 2:03 pm
14

i 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
Rod

June 23rd, 2005 at 12:41 pm
15

Apparently 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.
James

July 4th, 2005 at 8:33 pm
16

BTW 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!
George L Smyth

July 5th, 2005 at 9:00 pm
17

Unfortunately, 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.
John Male blog

July 29th, 2005 at 2:05 am
18

I dont want to read this bullshit anymore
I hate spammers

September 14th, 2005 at 8:58 pm
19

stupid spammer
cronic5

October 24th, 2005 at 4:57 pm
20

Why the hell would anyone spam something like this? Why not a forum or something more practical?
Joe Crawford

October 31st, 2005 at 9:57 am
21

anyone here know how to get a list of my contacts from gmail using the feed? Maybe other folders rather than just the inbox?
Ben

December 13th, 2005 at 12:27 pm
22

I’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?
Joe

April 20th, 2006 at 5:05 pm
23

Works 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.
Cameri

April 30th, 2006 at 11:50 am
24

Because 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]
dude

September 21st, 2006 at 9:08 pm
25

ERROR in YOUR ATOM FEED URL

the two instances of “gmail” should just be “mail”
dude2

January 23rd, 2007 at 1:03 am
26

nope, ‘gmail’ works, gets converted to ‘mail’
DUMBASS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Justin G Lynch

February 22nd, 2007 at 8:24 am
27

I 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.