Count of unread emails in Gmail

Question

i am using google provisioning api (education edition) and i am thinking of allowing users to allow access to their email directly from my application without them logging in. i have accomplished that so far but i also want to display the count of unread emails within my application. i can't find that within the API. so i guess i am looking for workaround to achieve the same.

any help appreciated.

Answer 1

Are you writing your application in Python?
If so, take a look at gmail notifier.
It's a python app for linux desktops, but it keeps a count of unread messages.

Hope that helps.

Answer 2

Unfortunately it's in C#