In principal the API looks like a good thing. In principal, Google wants to make it easier to let internet applications use information in your email, with the user’s permission.

Registering an application with Google API is easy. Go to the Google API console, log in, create a new project, and enter it. Enable the Gmail API; it should be suggested on the front page.

Designed to let you easily deliver Gmail-enabled features, this new API is a standard Google API, which gives RESTful access to a user’s mailbox under OAuth 2.0 authorization.

Yesterday, at Google's I/O developer conference, the company announced a new way for developers to build apps that integrate with Gmail, via its brand-new Gmail API. Designed to allow programmatic ...

What does the new Gmail API mean for Internet standards? Google quietly released a new set of Gmail APIs today, giving developers access to some of the building blocks of its popular Gmail protocols.

The new version of Gmail -- which was more of a back-end update -- has given developers access to an easy Greasemonkey API that makes developing plugins or changing the appearance of Gmail a breeze.

The Gmail API won’t be enough to make you love your email, but it might help you hate it a little bit less. With email, the most ubiquitous form of electronic communication, even that seemingly ...

As part of its I/O developer conference, Google today announced the launch of a new API for its Gmail service. Eric DeFriez, Google’s technical lead for the API, noted in a blog post that the ...