Tool to download your gmail headers, store them in a sqlite database. Includes a tool that plots a histogram of the number of emails exchanged with friends.

Python Modules

This requires the following modules:

• dateutil
• psycopg2 (http://initd.org/psycopg/download/)
• pyparsing

For the other packages, they are included in modules/.
For example, you can install dateutil using the following

cd `modules`
tar -xf python-dateutil-1.5.tar.gz
cd python-dateutil-1.5
sudo python setup.py install

This should install it in $PYTHONHOME/site-packages/ To check that it works do

python
>>> import dateutil    

Databases

Inboxdr uses PostgreSQL

Getting started

Create the database and user

createdb liamg
createuser liamg

Create your private settings file

cd liamgweb
cp private_settings.py.tmpl private_settings.py

Edit your private settings to use the correct database backend. Do not add or commit private_settings.py! This is customized for your own deployment.

Download your entire inbox's message headers and enter your username and password.

python getdata.py 2> err

If you only want a subset, open getdata.py and edit label_string and search_string in download_headers

Things to checkout

D3 declarative visualizations

http://mbostock.github.com/d3/

TODOs

Eugene

• Create message download pipeline
• Separate header download and message contents download
• Modularize latencies calculation
• Integrate latencies calculation into message download pipeline

Lydia

• Deploy onto AWS

Chris

• Get SQL queries working (done for the Rec'd messages)
• Integrate backend scripts with front end for the Sent messages

Melinda / Allin

• Frontend?

Ravi

• Scripts/Backend

author: sirrice