Gmail api Thread List Snippet

Question

I have been attempting to work with the GMail API and client libraries. I'm able to use the javascript node SDK to get a list of threads, but the snippet comes back as "".

client.gmail.users.threads.list({userId: "me"}).withAuthClient(auth_with_access_token).execute(function (err, response) {
            res.json({complete: response.threads})
        });

I then downloaded the python SDK and got a list of threads as well using the gmail api sample and noticed those have empty snippets as well.

for thread in threads['threads']:
    print 'Thread: %s' % (thread)

Thread ID: {u'snippet': u'', u'id': u'146fccb21d960498', u'historyId': u'7177452'}

When I request the thread via the get thread method I do get a snippet, though, it's only missing on the thread list.

Is there additional details I need to include in the request to get the snippet?

Thanks!

Answer 1

I can grab message snippets fine by using this code, following authentication:

message = service.users().messages().get(userId=user_id, id=msg_id, format='raw').execute()
print 'Message snippet: %s' % message['snippet']

This is obviously pulling a snippet for a particular message, but the principle remains.

Try this out and it should work, if not comment on this answer and I'll try to help.