Method: users.drafts.list

Lists the drafts in the user's mailbox.

HTTP request

GET https://gmail.googleapis.com/gmail/v1/users/{userId}/drafts

The URL uses gRPC Transcoding syntax.

Path parameters

Parameters
userId

string

The user's email address. The special value me can be used to indicate the authenticated user.

Query parameters

Parameters
maxResults

integer (uint32 format)

Maximum number of drafts to return. This field defaults to 100. The maximum allowed value for this field is 500.
pageToken

string

Page token to retrieve a specific page of results in the list.
q

string

Only return draft messages matching the specified query. Supports the same query format as the Gmail search box. For example, "from:someuser@example.com rfc822msgid:<somemsgid@example.com> is:unread".
includeSpamTrash

boolean

Include drafts from SPAM and TRASH in the results.

Request body

The request body must be empty.

Response body

If successful, the response body contains data with the following structure:

JSON representation 
{
  "drafts": [
    {
      object (Draft)
    }
  ],
  "nextPageToken": string,
  "resultSizeEstimate": integer
}
Fields
drafts[]

object (Draft)

List of drafts. Note that the Message property in each Draft resource only contains an id and a threadId. The messages.get method can fetch additional message details.
nextPageToken

string

Token to retrieve the next page of results in the list.
resultSizeEstimate

integer (uint32 format)

Estimated total number of results.

Authorization scopes

Requires one of the following OAuth scopes:

  • https://mail.google.com/
  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/gmail.modify
  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/gmail.compose
  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/gmail.readonly

For more information, see the Authorization guide.