gm_attachment function

Retrieve an attachment to a message

Retrieve an attachment to a message

This is a low level function to retrieve an attachment to a message by id of the attachment and message. Most users are better off using gm_save_attachments() to automatically save all the attachments in a given message.

gm_attachment(id, message_id, user_id = "me")

Arguments

  • id: id of the attachment
  • message_id: id of the parent message
  • user_id: gmail user_id to access, special value of 'me' indicates the authenticated user.

Examples

## Not run: my_attachment <- gm_attachment("a32e324b", "12345") # save attachment to a file gm_save_attachment(my_attachment, "photo.jpg") ## End(Not run)

References

https://developers.google.com/gmail/api/reference/rest/v1/users.messages.attachments/get

See Also

Other message: gm_delete_message(), gm_import_message(), gm_insert_message(), gm_messages(), gm_message(), gm_modify_message(), gm_save_attachments(), gm_save_attachment(), gm_send_message(), gm_trash_message(), gm_untrash_message()

  • Maintainer: Jennifer Bryan
  • License: MIT + file LICENSE
  • Last published: 2023-06-30