Google provides client libraries for Gmail API for several languages, such as Java, JavaScript, .NET, Python, Objective-C, and PHP.

Designed to let you easily deliver Gmail-enabled features, this new API is a standard Google API, which gives RESTful access to a user’s mailbox under OAuth 2.0 authorization.

The new version of Gmail -- which was more of a back-end update -- has given developers access to an easy Greasemonkey API that makes developing plugins or changing the appearance of Gmail a breeze.

What does the new Gmail API mean for Internet standards? Google quietly released a new set of Gmail APIs today, giving developers access to some of the building blocks of its popular Gmail protocols.

Google has updated the Gmail API with new endpoints for managing settings. The additions cover filters, forwarding addresses, auto-forwarding, IMAP/POP settings, send-as aliases, signatures, and ...

The Gmail API lets you ask Google for threads, messages, drafts, and labels three to ten times faster than with IMAP, Google says — but, the company says that it shouldn’t be used to replace IMAP.