mailfetcher

mailfetcher is a Python 3 wrapper against transferwee to download (and optionally extract) zip archives received via wetransfer. Download links for the files being received are extracted from the e-mail messages received upon transfer

Requirements

Apart from standard python3 libraries, the script requires

• BeautifulSoup (bs4)
• requests
• transferwee

Usage

The entire code is wrapped in a class that is instantiated by passing various options as argument in a dictionary:

from mailfetcher import MailFetcher 
worker = MailFetcher({            
    'server': 'mail.example.com',
    'user': 'john.doe',         
    'pass': 'SuperStr0ngPass', 
    'outdir': '/store/zipfiles/'
})                              
worker.fetch()                 
worker.disconnect()           

Config options

Key	Default value	Meaning
server	None, write down yours	IMAP server address (hostname or IP number). Should use SSL (port 993)
user	None, write down yours	IMAP account username
pass	None, write down yours	IMAP account password
mailbox	'inbox'	IMAP folder to search for UNREAD messages
outdir	'/tmp/zipfiles'	Output folder (will download and extract archives here)
autostart	False	Start fetching after instantiation, no need to call MailFetcher.fetch()
unzip	True	Extract (unzip) automatically after download
keep_archive	True	Keep the zip after extracting, delete otherwise