Gmail API not working anymore

[amaury1093]

Email to check

[email protected]

From where did you run check-if-email-exists?

anywhere, even local machine

Version of check-if-email-exists (if running it yourself)

8e79884

What happened?

We added the ability to verify Gmail addresses using an API (instead of a SMTP connection): #1193.

However, since a couple of days ago, this seems to have stopped working. Maybe Gmail changed something on their side. Emails that used to be safe now return invalid. You can try with [email protected] for example.

Relevant log output

No response

[lechuhuuha]

yep can confirm this
any email will return the same result
sad day for us
fallback to smtp then

[OisCircle]

gg

[namper]

Yes can confirm also from my side.
In my experience SMTP is very unreliable, are there any other methods that can be used for Gmail ?

[amaury1093]

I wonder if there's a way to run a headless browser, and go to Gmail's password recovery page https://accounts.google.com/signin/v2/usernamerecovery. Use the headless browser to input the email to verify, and hopefully with the messages that Gmail returns, we can know its existence.

Similarly to how we currently do for hotmail.

[lechuhuuha]

I wonder if there's a way to run a headless browser, and go to Gmail's password recovery page https://accounts.google.com/signin/v2/usernamerecovery. Use the headless browser to input the email to verify, and hopefully with the messages that Gmail returns, we can know its existence.

Similarly to how we currently do for hotmail.

tried that method
but not working for gmail
they detect its way too easy and block you after few attempt with captcha

[ernests]

Yes can confirm also from my side. In my experience SMTP is very unreliable, are there any other methods that can be used for Gmail ?

Did quick research and there "kind of" is alternative but it requires your cookie and additional token. Look for https://people-pa.clients6.google.com url in Github. This is an endpoint where google checks if account is with them. Previously it was https://mail.google.com/mail/gxlu

[beshoo]

Nah, not good at all...

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