PHP : Fetch unread gmail emails using CURL

The following code snippet will fetch all unread gmail emails of a given account in xml(atom) format.

It does this by simply fetching the page https://mail.google.com/mail/feed/atom using http authentication

curl -u gmail_username --silent "https://mail.google.com/mail/feed/atom"

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/* To use this code, fill the correct values for the variables $gmail_username, $gmail_password */   function get_gmail($username , $password) {     $url = "https://mail.google.com/mail/feed/atom";           $c = curl_init();           $options = array(         CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH => CURLAUTH_BASIC ,         CURLOPT_USERPWD => "$username:$password" ,         CURLOPT_SSLVERSION => 3 ,         CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER => FALSE ,         CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST => 2 ,         CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true ,         CURLOPT_USERAGENT => "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT 5.0)" ,         CURLOPT_URL => $url     );           curl_setopt_array($c, $options);     $output = curl_exec($c);           return $output; }   $gmail_username = 'username'; $gmail_password = 'password';   echo get_gmail( $gmail_username , $gmail_password );