VBScript

Move a GMail Message to Trash

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Moves a specific GMail email message to trash. VBScript

Dim fso, outFile
Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
'Create a Unicode (utf-16) output text file.
Set outFile = fso.CreateTextFile("output.txt", True, True)

success = 0

' This example requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
' See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

set http = CreateObject("Chilkat.Http")
http.AuthToken = "GMAIL-ACCESS-TOKEN"

' The id of the GMail message to move to Trash.
id = "16678c485e7f0a0c"
userId = "me"

success = http.SetUrlVar("userId","me")
success = http.SetUrlVar("id",id)

' Move to trash by POSTing w/ an empty request body.
url = "https://www.googleapis.com/gmail/v1/users/{$userId}/messages/{$id}/trash"
set resp = CreateObject("Chilkat.HttpResponse")
success = http.HttpStr("POST",url,"","","",resp)
If (success = 0) Then
    outFile.WriteLine(http.LastErrorText)
    WScript.Quit
End If

outFile.WriteLine("status = " & resp.StatusCode)

' A 200 response status indicate success.
If (resp.StatusCode <> 200) Then
    outFile.WriteLine(resp.BodyStr)
    outFile.WriteLine("Failed.")
    WScript.Quit
End If

' A successful repsonse contains JSON that looks like this:

' {
'  "id": "16678c485e7f0a0c",
'  "threadId": "16678c485e7f0a0c",
'  "labelIds": [
'   "TRASH",
'   "CATEGORY_SOCIAL"
'  ]
' }

outFile.WriteLine("response body:")
outFile.WriteLine(resp.BodyStr)

outFile.WriteLine("Message moved to trash!")

outFile.Close