Gmail Filter XML Generator

Intro

Ever want to create Gmail Filter XML by editing a spreadsheet or excel file? This program gives you an easy way to generate Gmail Filter XML files based on a CSV input. It can take single multiple files, or a folder of input and output individial files and merged XML files to be easily imported to Gmail Filter.

See Gmail Help Doc ¹.

Usage

1. Follow the example of this repository /testdata/sample-filter.csv, create a CSV for your filter configuration.

2. Run the main.ts

ts-node main.ts --input_file=[your_csv_file]

3. Find your output xml file in the output folder.

4. Follow the vidoe here to import the gmail filter from xml you generated.

For more advanced usage of search operators, see [^2].

Questions

For questions please contact github+gmail_filter_gen@zzn.im

Further Developoment

1. Add a label for all auto-archived email for debugging purposes
2. Add title to xml file and title to each entry from notes
3. Shoot a video (less than 30s) introducing the usage.

Reference

Footnotes

1. Gmail Help: Create rules to filter your emails [^2] Gmail Help: Search operators you can use with Gmail ↩