Count of unread emails in Gmail

Question

i am using Google provisioning API (education edition) and I am thinking of allowing users to allow access to their email directly from my application without them logging in.

I have accomplished that so far but I also want to display the count of unread emails within my application. I can't find that within the API.

How can I work around this?

Answer 1

Are you writing your application in Python?
If so, take a look at gmail notifier.
It's a python app for linux desktops, but it keeps a count of unread messages.

Hope that helps.