Recipe Save Email Attachments

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Find Gmail messages with attachments and save them to a Google Drive folder.

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Finds Gmail messages with attachments and saves the attachments to a Google Drive folder.

What it does: This recipe walks through locating Gmail messages that have attachments, retrieving the message details, downloading the attachment, and uploading the file to a specified Google Drive folder. It is an instruction-only recipe that relies on the gws command-line tool and the gws-gmail and gws-drive skills. The result is the attachment stored in Drive rather than in the mailbox.
When to use it: Use it when attachments received by email need to be collected and archived in Google Drive. It suits a workflow where a user wants to move files out of Gmail into a shared or organized Drive folder.
Requirements: Requires the gws binary and the gws-gmail and gws-drive skills. It needs authenticated access to Gmail and Google Drive, plus network access. No scripts are shipped; it is instructions only.

Save Gmail Attachments to Google Drive

PREREQUISITE: Load the following skills to execute this recipe: gws-gmail, gws-drive

Find Gmail messages with attachments and save them to a Google Drive folder.

Search for emails with attachments: gws gmail users messages list --params '{"userId": "me", "q": "has:attachment from:[email protected]"}' --format table
Get message details: gws gmail users messages get --params '{"userId": "me", "id": "MESSAGE_ID"}'
Download attachment: gws gmail users messages attachments get --params '{"userId": "me", "messageId": "MESSAGE_ID", "id": "ATTACHMENT_ID"}'
Upload to Drive folder: gws drive +upload --file ./attachment.pdf --parent FOLDER_ID

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