Google's GMail API download attachments

Question

I'm using the PHP SDK for the new Gmail API. How do I fetch an attachment from an email?

Here is the API documentation, but in this instance, it's missing example for PHP. Although I have seen people achieving this with PHP.

EDIT:

This is what I have so far, unsure if it's correct:

$attachmentData = $service->users_messages_attachments->get($emailAccount, $messageId, $attachmentId);

$myfile = fopen("excel.xlsx", "w");
fwrite($myfile, $attachmentData);
fclose($myfile);

Answer 1

Firstly we need to get the data from the attachment object:

 $attachmentObj = $service->users_messages_attachments->get($emailAccount, $messageId, $attachmentId);
 $data = $attachmentObj->getData(); //Get data from attachment object

Then before writing to file, convert the data to standard RFC 4648 base64-encoding:

 $data = strtr($data, array('-' => '+', '_' => '/'));
 $myfile = fopen("excel.xlsx", "w+");;
 fwrite($myfile, base64_decode($data));
 fclose($myfile);

It now works!

Answer 2

function getAttachment($messageId, $partId, $userId)
    {
        try {
            $client = getClient();
            $gmail = new Google_Service_Gmail($client);
            $message = $gmail->users_messages->get($userId, $messageId);
            $message_payload_details = $message->getPayload()->getParts();
            $attachmentDetails = array();
            $attachmentDetails['attachmentId'] = $message_payload_details[$partId]['body']['attachmentId'];
            $attachmentDetails['headers'] = $message_payload_details[$partId]['headers'];
            $attachment = $gmail->users_messages_attachments->get($userId, $messageId, $attachmentDetails['attachmentId']);
            $attachmentDetails['data'] = $attachment->data;
            return ['status' => true, 'data' => $attachmentDetails];
        } catch (\Google_Service_Exception $e) {
            return ['status' => false, 'message' => $e->getMessage()];
        }
    }

    function base64_to_jpeg($base64_string, $content_type) {
        $find = ["_","-"]; $replace = ["/","+"];
        $base64_string = str_replace($find,$replace,$base64_string);
        $url_str = 'data:'.$content_type.','.$base64_string;
        $base64_string = "url(".$url_str.")";
        $data = explode(',', $base64_string);
        return base64_decode( $data[ 1 ] );
    }

    // Get the API client and construct the service object.
    $client = getClient();
    $service = new Google_Service_Gmail($client);
    $opt_param = array();
    $opt_param['labelIds'] =  'INBOX';
    $opt_param['maxResults'] = 1;
    $messages = $service->users_messages->listUsersMessages($userId, $opt_param);

    foreach ($messages as $message_thread) {
            $message = $service->users_messages->get($userId, $message_thread['id']);
            $message_parts = $message->getPayload()->getParts();
            $files = array();
            $attachId = $message_parts[1]['body']['attachmentId'];
            $attach = $service->users_messages_attachments->get($userId, $message['id'], $attachId);
            foreach ($message_parts as $key => $value) {
                if ( isset($value->body->attachmentId) && !isset($value->body->data)) {
                  array_push($files, $value['partId']);
                }
            }   
    }

    if(isset($_GET['messageId']) && $_GET['part_id']){ // This is After Clicking an Attachment
        $attachment = getAttachment($_GET['messageId'], $_GET['part_id'], $userId);
        $content_type = "";
        foreach ($attachment['data']['headers'] as $key => $value) {
            if($value->name == 'Content-Type'){ $content_type = $value->value; }
            header($value->name.':'.$value->value);
        }
        $content_type_val = current(explode("/",$content_type));
        $media_types = ["video", "image", "application"];
        if(in_array($content_type_val, $media_types )){
            echo base64_to_jpeg($attachment['data']['data'], $content_type); // Only for Image files
        } else {
          echo base64_decode($attachment['data']['data']); // Other than Image Files
        }
    } else { // Listing All Attachments
            if(!empty($files)) {
                foreach ($files as $key => $value) {
                    echo '<a target="_blank" href="index.php?messageId='.$message['id'].'&part_id='.$value.'">Attachment '.($key+1).'</a><br/>';
                }
            }

    }