GMAIL API: Get Label ID by Label Name

Question

How do you get the Label ID by Label Name?

I can get the Label ID by getting the list of Labels and parsing the response. But that looks a pretty inefficient way of doing it when I'm only interested in a particular label.

Is it possible to get Label ID directly be passing the Label Name?

Answer 1

No, you cannot. However, listing your labels is one of the least expensive API calls you can do, so no worries!