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I’m working towards setting up Gmail authentication in a Flask app. There is this extension of Flask – but I can’t find a clear idea as to how I’d go about using it to let people log into the app using their Gmail accounts. Any pointers? Much appreciated!
This might give you an idea
https://developers.google.com/gdata/faq#GmailAtomFeed
It says
“Does Gmail have a Data API?
No, but you can use http://gmail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=13465 Gmail’s Atom feed with AuthSub or OAuth 1 to request read-only access to a user’s unread messages. The scope should be set to https://mail.google.com/mail/feed/atom/. An example query would be:
GET https://mail.google.com/mail/feed/atom/“