Unread gmail mail counter using curl

Question

I created a script that can get an unread email list as a feed from gmail, here is my code

<?php //function to get unread emails taking username and password as parameters function check_email($username, $password) { //url to connect to $url = "https://mail.google.com/mail/feed/atom"; // sendRequest $curl = curl_init(); curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, $url); curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1); curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false); curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_USERPWD, $username . ":" . $password); curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH, CURLAUTH_BASIC); curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_ENCODING, ""); $curlData = curl_exec($curl); curl_close($curl); //returning retrieved feed return $curlData; } //making page to behave like xml document to show feeds header('Content-Type:text/xml; charset=UTF-8'); //calling function $feed = check_email("username", "password"); echo $feed; ?> 

conclusion similar to this

 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <feed version="0.3" xmlns="http://purl.org/atom/ns#"> <title>Gmail - Inbox for [e-mail] </title> <tagline>New messages in your Gmail Inbox</tagline> <fullcount>1282</fullcount> <link rel="alternate" href="http://mail.google.com/mail" type="text/html" /> <modified>2012-08-01T12:33:48Z</modified> <entry> <title>eBCS Pro 1 August 2012</title> <summary>bcs logo eBCS Pro 1 August 2012 Video interview Olympic IT The Met Police&#39;s director of IT, Steve</summary> <link rel="alternate" href="http://mail.google.com/ mail?account_id=[e-mail] &amp;message_id=138e21a3404cc7b2&amp;view=conv&amp;extsrc=atom" type="text/html" /> <modified>2012-08-01T12:12:44Z</modified> <issued>2012-08-01T12:12:44Z</issued> <id>tag:gmail.google.com,2004:1409100718455703474</id> <author> <name>eBCS Newsletter</name> <email> [e-mail] </email> </author> </entry> <entry> 

so you want to read

 <fullcount>1282</fullcount> 

tag

when you pass the username and password of this function, it can display a list of email addresses, I only need to get the number of messages, is there any way to catch or count the elements

Answer 1

this is the answer, I am reading the xml tag using php

 $xmlobjc = new SimpleXMLElement($feed); echo $xmlobjc->fullcount[0]; 

and replace the title with

 header('Content-Type:text/html; charset=UTF-8'); 

Answer 2

This also works:

 curl -u $(cat username):$(cat password) --silent 'https://mail.google.com/mail/feed/atom' | sed -n 's:.*<fullcount>\(.*\)</fullcount>.*:\1:p'