Gmail

Integrate your application with the Gmail API

🚀 Quickstart

Connect to Gmail with Nango and see data flow in 2 minutes.

1. Create the integration

   In Nango (free signup), go to Integrations -> Configure New Integration -> Gmail.

   Nango has credentials you can use for testing. Activate them in the dashboard.

2. Authorize Gmail

   Go to Connections -> Add Test Connection -> Authorize, then log in to Gmail. Later, you’ll let your users do the same directly from your app.

3. Call the Gmail API

   Let’s make your first request to the Gmail API (fetch the profile of the currently signed-in user). This request will return basic details about the authenticated user, such as their email address and message/thread counts. Replace the placeholders below with your secret key, integration ID, and connection ID:

   cURL

   curl "https://api.nango.dev/proxy/gmail/v1/users/me/profile" \
     -H "Authorization: Bearer <NANGO-SECRET-KEY>" \
     -H "Provider-Config-Key: <INTEGRATION-ID>" \
     -H "Connection-Id: <CONNECTION-ID>"
   

   Or fetch credentials dynamically via the Node SDK or API.

   ✅ You’re connected! Check the Logs tab in Nango to inspect requests.

4. Implement Nango in your app

   Follow our quickstart to integrate Nango in your app.

   To obtain your own production credentials, follow the setup guide linked below.

📚 Gmail Integration Guides

Nango maintained guides for common use cases.

• How to register your own Gmail OAuth app
  Register an OAuth app with Gmail and obtain credentials to connect it to Nango

Official docs: Gmail API docs

🧩 Pre-built syncs & actions for Gmail

Enable them in your dashboard. Extend and customize to fit your needs.

Emails

Function name	Description	Type	Source code
send-email	Send an Email using Gmail.	Action	🔗 Github
emails	Fetches a list of emails from gmail. Goes back default to 1 year but metadata can be set using the backfillPeriodMs property to change the lookback. The property should be set in milliseconds.	Sync	🔗 Github

Labels

Function name	Description	Type	Source code
labels	Fetches a list of labels from gmail.	Sync	🔗 Github

Others

Function name	Description	Type	Source code
fetch-attachment	An action used to fetch the contents of an attachment.	Action	🔗 Github

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