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Asked: 2026-05-15T20:06:52+00:00

Is there any way to programmatically search GMail, preferably using C#? For example, I’d

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Is there any way to programmatically search GMail, preferably using C#?

For example, I’d like to get all email messages matching the search label:MyLabel from:no_reply@foo.bar, so that I can parse the email bodies as required.

The only thing remotely feasible I’ve found is the GMail API by Johnvey Hwang, though it doesn’t look like it supports searching email and also hasn’t been updated in many years either.

In any case, I haven’t had much luck in getting it to even connect to my account so far, and was wondering if this even works anymore?

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    Eventually, I settled with using IMAPX, which works pretty well. Tried a few other IMAP libraries which weren’t as powerful and seemed a bit flaky.

    If anyone’s interested, the outcome of this is iDevice App Reporter, which is a WinForms app that searches GMail (or any other IMAP mailbox) for iTunes app receipts and parses these to return a list of downloaded/purchased apps from the Apple AppStore.

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