Delete all the Emails from Gmail that match a search keyword.

Why?

You cannot delete tens of thousands mails at once on Gmail UI. It will fail at last. So I write a script to do that.

Usage

1. Install Google client library: pip install --upgrade google-api-python-client oauth2client.
2. Goto Gmail's Python API quickstart page, click "ENABLE THE GMAIL API" button. Put the downloaded credentials.json file in the same directory of this project.
3. Modify script variable 'me' to be YOUR gmail address.
4. Run python del_mail.py, it will open a webpage. Login to Gmail and click agree.
5. This will remove all emails that match the filter "to:email@gmail.com" which should be all your email.

Use Behind a Proxy

If Google is blocked in your country, you may what to use proxy for this script. An easy solution is to using proxychains-ng. Another note is open the login page manully and copy the verification code back to console. So the command is like:

proxychains4 -q python del_main.py --noauth_local_webserver