Reading GMail email messages via VBA without Outlook - excel

Question

How can I read GMail emails via VBA without having Outlook installed on the PC ?
I googled it but I didn't find any solution which does not relies on Outlook.

Answer 1

You can use the google api to archive this without outlook.
There is VBA-Web on github that supports the gmail api.
Here is an example for gmail with vba-web:
Attribute VB_Name = "Gmail"
' Setup client and authenticator (cached between requests)
Private pGmailClient As WebClient
Private Property Get GmailClient() As WebClient
If pGmailClient Is Nothing Then
' Create client with base url that is appended to all requests
Set pGmailClient = New WebClient
pGmailClient.BaseUrl = "https://www.googleapis.com/gmail/v1/"
' Use the pre-made GoogleAuthenticator found in authenticators/ folder
' - Automatically uses Google's OAuth approach including login screen
' - Get API client id and secret from https://console.developers.google.com/
' - https://github.com/timhall/Excel-REST/wiki/Google-APIs for more info
Dim Auth As New GoogleAuthenticator
Auth.Setup CStr(Credentials.Values("Google")("id")), CStr(Credentials.Values("Google")("secret"))
Auth.AddScope "https://www.googleapis.com/auth/gmail.readonly"
Auth.Login
Set pGmailClient.Authenticator = Auth
End If
Set GmailClient = pGmailClient
End Property
' Load messages for inbox
Function LoadInbox() As Collection
Set LoadInbox = New Collection
' Create inbox request with userId and querystring for inbox label
Dim Request As New WebRequest
Request.Resource = "users/{userId}/messages"
Request.AddUrlSegment "userId", "me"
Request.AddQuerystringParam "q", "label:inbox"
Dim Response As WebResponse
Set Response = GmailClient.Execute(Request)
If Response.StatusCode = WebStatusCode.Ok Then
Dim MessageInfo As Dictionary
Dim Message As Dictionary
For Each MessageInfo In Response.Data("messages")
' Load full messages for each id
Set Message = LoadMessage(MessageInfo("id"))
If Not Message Is Nothing Then
LoadInbox.Add Message
End If
Next MessageInfo
End If
End Function
' Load message details
Function LoadMessage(MessageId As String) As Dictionary
Dim Request As New WebRequest
Request.Resource = "users/{userId}/messages/{messageId}"
Request.AddUrlSegment "userId", "me"
Request.AddUrlSegment "messageId", MessageId
Dim Response As WebResponse
Set Response = GmailClient.Execute(Request)
If Response.StatusCode = WebStatusCode.Ok Then
Set LoadMessage = New Dictionary
' Pull out relevant parts of message (from, to, and subject from headers)
LoadMessage.Add "snippet", Response.Data("snippet")
Dim Header As Dictionary
For Each Header In Response.Data("payload")("headers")
Select Case Header("name")
Case "From"
LoadMessage.Add "from", Header("value")
Case "To"
LoadMessage.Add "to", Header("value")
Case "Subject"
LoadMessage.Add "subject", Header("value")
End Select
Next Header
End If
End Function
Sub Test()
Dim Message As Dictionary
For Each Message In LoadInbox
Debug.Print "From: " & Message("from") & ", Subject: " & Message("subject")
Debug.Print Message("snippet") & vbNewLine
Next Message
End Sub

Answer 2

You can pull GMAIL email data into Excel by adding a custom reference library EAGetMail.
You can find the install link and a demo macro here.