Gmailtail – Command-line tool to monitor Gmail messages and output them as JSON

3r7j6qzi9jvnve 319 days ago |

This just polls every x (default 30) seconds; if you use IMAP you can do better with IDLE (e.g. I pipe `fetchmail --check` to something that triggers a sync to immediately get new mails)

_flux 319 days ago | |

I wonder though if also the Gmail interface supports something like this? It seems it's pretty fast at receiving email.

kosolam 319 days ago | | |

There is this generic tool: https://github.com/pimalaya/himalaya

toomuchtodo 319 days ago | | |

Himalaya: CLI to Manage Emails - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42366025 - December 2024 (97 comments)

jrop 319 days ago | | |

Thanks for this! Exactly what I was looking for.

dataflow 319 days ago | | |

There are pub/sub notifications but it's a bit of a pain to get working. You need an HTTP endpoint the server can reach for push notifications, I think, not long polling.

kevincox 319 days ago | | |

The GMail web client definitely doesn't create an HTTP endpoint to receive updates. But the API it uses is likely proprietary and private (even if it was built on top of the public API there would be a backend bridging the two)

dataflow 319 days ago | | |

Sorry, yes, my comment was confusing. I was answering the "how do I get faster notifications in a supported manner" part rather than the "how does the Gmail web UI do this" part.

love2read 319 days ago |

What tool makes these readme’s for new github repos that are bulletpointed lists with features, always prefixed by an emoji?

sunrunner 319 days ago | |

I think this trend has been around for a while now (it started to become more noticable for me at least a couple of years ago).

At first there seemed to be a correlation between how 'cool' the project was and the number of emoji, but now it seems like it's as expected as just having a README itself.

I've definitely seen _more_ decorated READMEs, and I can't help but feel like there's an inverse correlation between emoji count and readability.

diggan 319 days ago | |

Not specifically about readmes/GitHub repos, but I've noticed some LLMs like Sonnet and GPT4.1 are really enthusiastic about doing emoji-prefixed lists for some reason.

dewey 319 days ago | | |

Trained on too many JS libraries.

aritrogh 318 days ago | | |

Not necessarily a helpful thing, In fact I think that we were to use this to create dynamic prompts then it increases exponentially

username135 319 days ago | |

When ever I see tons of emojis in a list/faq/readme I first think of LLM output.

jdironman 318 days ago | | |

I do as well when I see:

# Code Comments Every Few Lines

vanrohan 318 days ago | |

It's probably LLM generated. Adding a fun/cool factor to the project. I created a Chrome Extension where you can "emojify" any text with a right-click. https://emoji-bot.com

maximevalette 319 days ago | |

Basically any LLM

yapyap 319 days ago | |

AI, I presume (but I’m not sure) that the code “agent” they are using creates it.

bravesoul2 319 days ago | |

Tool is an insult when applied to a human...

basemi 319 days ago |

If I read it right, it's built on Gmail API

Are there any other provider agnostic tools with similar capabilities?

szszrk 319 days ago | |

I guess JMAP was created to also deal with this. I'm not sure how far are we in implementation on clients side.

https://jmap.io/spec.html

MangoToupe 319 days ago | | |

I can't imagine google ever supporting something that useful.

fastasucan 318 days ago | |

https://github.com/pimalaya/himalaya

worldsayshi 319 days ago |

Is there any good library or tool that let's me programmatically/easily or semi-automatically delete mail by query in gmail? The built in tools are not good enough. Does Thunderbird work with gmail nowadays?

jamespo 319 days ago | |

I use imapfilter: https://github.com/lefcha/imapfilter

jeffbee 319 days ago | |

Easily done in Google Apps Script.

nathants 319 days ago |

Just have SES put the email in s3, then do stuff.

gsibble 319 days ago | |

Oh yeah, I'd love to hold on to people's emails and be responsible if they got leaked.

nathants 318 days ago | | |

TTL=1day

nisegami 319 days ago |

One step closer to fully closing the loop on using LLMs to automate white collar work.

rubslopes 319 days ago |

Is it just me, or is there a trend to make modern web applications accessible on the terminal?

slantaclaus 318 days ago | |

“a resurgence with new tooling and polish”