Event Webhook Python Code Example

Parse Webhook

This example shows how to parse inbound emails with Python, the Flask framework, and the Twilio SendGrid Inbound Parse Webhook.

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We recommend using our official Python SDK, our client library with full documentation, when integrating with SendGrid's Inbound Parse Webhook.

In this example, we want to parse all emails at address@email.sendgrid.biz and post the parsed email to http://sendgrid.biz/parse. In this example we will be using Python and the Flask framework.

Given this scenario, the following are the parameters you would set at the Parse API settings page:

Hostname: email.sendgrid.biz

URL: http://sendgrid.biz/parse

To test this scenario, we sent an email to example@example.com and created the following code:

1from flask import Flask, request
2import simplejson
3app = Flask(__name__)
4
5@app.route('/parse', methods=['POST'])
6def sendgrid_parser():
7  # Consume the entire email
8  envelope = simplejson.loads(request.form.get('envelope'))
9
10  # Get some header information
11  to_address = envelope['to'][0]
12  from_address = envelope['from']
13
14  # Now, onto the body
15  text = request.form.get('text')
16  html = request.form.get('html')
17  subject = request.form.get('subject')
18
19  # Process the attachements, if any
20  num_attachments = int(request.form.get('attachments', 0))
21  attachments = []
22  if num_attachments > 0:
23    for num in range(1, (num_attachments + 1)):
24      attachment = request.files.get(('attachment%d' % num))
25      attachments.append(attachment.read())
26      # attachment will have all the parameters expected in a Flask file upload
27
28  return "OK"
29
30if __name__ == '__main__':
31    app.run(debug=True)
32