feat(gmail): add --body-format flag to messages search#520
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Supports "text" (default, existing behavior) and "html" to prefer the HTML MIME part over plaintext. Useful for newsletter ingestion where the HTML body contains the rich formatted content. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Summary
Adds
--body-formattogmail messages searchfor controlling which MIME part is returned when--include-bodyis used.--body-format text(default) — preserves existing behavior, returns plain text part (falls back to HTML if no plain text)--body-format html— prefers the HTML part (falls back to plain text if no HTML)Adds
bestBodyHTML()helper to complementbestBodyText().Motivation
Newsletters and rich emails often have a minimal plain text part (or just "view in browser") while all meaningful content is in the HTML part. This flag makes it possible to retrieve that content without custom workarounds.
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--body-format textreturns existing behavior (plain text, HTML fallback)--body-format htmlreturns HTML part when present--body-format htmlfalls back to plain text when no HTML part exists--body-formatdefaults totextbehavior🤖 Generated with Claude Code