Send email to Appengine

admin — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 06:45:32 +0000

Now we can send email to appengine. This is really a cool feature. And greatly enhance the features that developers can use.

Incoming Email – Your App Engine app has been able to send email for some time … but now, with 1.2.6, your app can also receive email. After enabling mail as an inbound service (just like XMPP), users can email your application at whatever@yourappid.appspotmail.com. Inbound messages are converted to HTTP requests (again, just like XMPP) which you can receive via webhook handler. Docs for Python, Java.

Can’t wait to try this new feature.

Read more details at Google Appengine blog.

Using Gdata apis in Appengine

admin — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:05:00 +0000

I started digging into Googles appengine recently. Its a great service provided by Google. Now developers like us dont have to worry about the servers.. deployment and other stuff. If we have an Idea we can jump in and start working on it.

As my first project on appengine, am trying to develop a simple which fetches videos from youtube and displays in a page. Its pretty basic.

Nice articles describing it can be found here.

Found a small issue in this article. There is a small hack we need to do to use the Python gdata apis in appengine. This article talks more about it.

This hack is failing in gdata-python api 1.2.1 With the new gdata api instead of doing

gdata.service.http_request_handler = gdata.urlfetch

We should do this

client = gdata.youtube.service.YouTubeService()
urlfetch.run_on_appengine(client)

Lost a day figuring this out.

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Send email to Appengine

Using Gdata apis in Appengine