README.md

Email Reply Parser for Python

A port of GitHub's Email Reply Parser library, by the fine folks at Zapier.

Summary

Email Reply Parser makes it easy to grab only the last reply to an on-going email thread.

Say you'd like to parse out a user's response to your transaction email messages:

Yes that is fine, I will email you in the morning.

On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 1:48 PM, Zapier <contact@zapier.com> wrote:

> Our support team just commented on your open Ticket:
> "Hi Royce, can we chat in the morning about your question?"

Email clients handle reply formatting differently, making parsing a pain. We include tests for many cases. The parsed email:

Yes that is fine, I will email you in the morning.

Installation

Using pip, use command:

pip install email_reply_parser

Tutorial

How to parse an email message

Step 1: Import email reply parser package

from email_reply_parser import EmailReplyParser

Step 2: Provide email message as type String

EmailReplyParser.read(email_message)

How to only retrieve the reply message

Step 1: Import email reply parser package

from email_reply_parser import EmailReplyParser

Step 2: Provide email message as type string using parse_reply class method.

EmailReplyParser.parse_reply(email_message)