Comment by throw03172019 3 days ago
The 2FA via email case is great. I recently had to build a browser automation workflow that required 2FA. I ended up using Zapier to monitor email inbox and then extract the code and send back to our API. It was a bit slow.
... you had to use Zapier to extract an email from an inbox?
Google API scopes for email are pretty restrictive, which is generally a good thing from a security perspective.
Retrieving e-mail using the Google API is just about trivial. You can generate a code snippet in Grok or what have you in about 30 seconds to do it.
Alternatively you can set up IMAP access.
Obviously you have to be able to configure proper OAuth2 keys to do this, but again, that's another 30 seconds spent in Grok/GPT/Claude/whatever.
Most gmail scopes are restricted which means you’ll need to pass a CASA assessment to have proper production access to them.
Why didn't you just use something like Mailinator? They specialize in this exact thing. Gives you an API to grab links and everything. That's what I use.