posted on Friday, December 24, 2004 11:50 AM by kevdaly

Gmail Atom feed from C#

This morning I came across a tip Jonas Galvez posted a few months ago entitled Proxy your Gmail feed with Python.
I thought (as you do) “That looks like fun” and decided to knock out a C# version.
So here it is, wrapped up in a nice cuddly method but without any error checking, asynchronous processing or other fanciness (it was just an idle fiddle after all...I'll look at doing something with it later):

private static XmlDocument GetGmailFeed(string userName, string password)
{

    HttpWebRequest req =
    (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(https://gmail.google.com/gmail/feed/atom);
    req.Method = "GET";
    req.Credentials = new NetworkCredential(userName,password);
    XmlDocument response = new XmlDocument();

    HttpWebResponse resp;

    resp = (HttpWebResponse)req.GetResponse();

    if(resp.StatusCode==HttpStatusCode.OK)
    {
       XmlTextReader reader = new XmlTextReader(resp.GetResponseStream());
       response.Load(reader);
       reader.Close();
    }

    resp.Close();
    return response;

}

Of course, Most aggregators will happily consume the feed for you if you can provide them with your credentials, but where's the fun in that?

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