Unable to login to gmail - imaplib.error - ALERT Please log in via your web browser

Question

I am trying to login to gmail and read the messages from python package. But getting an Error : [ALERT] Please log in via your web browser: https://support.google.com/mail/accounts/answer/78754 (Failure)

import imaplib
import email

m = imaplib.IMAP4_SSL("imap.gmail.com", 993)
m.login("[email protected]","password")
m.select('"[Gmail]/All Mail"')

result, data = m.uid('search', None, "ALL") # search all email and return uids
if result == 'OK':
    for num in data[0].split():
        result, data = m.uid('fetch', num, '(RFC822)')
    if result == 'OK':
        email_message = email.message_from_bytes(data[0][1])    # raw email text including headers
        print('From:' + email_message['From'])

m.close()
m.logout()

Answer 1

Just turn this ON for your Gmail account - https://myaccount.google.com/lesssecureapps

Answer 2

It's work for me:

• Turn ON https://myaccount.google.com/lesssecureapps
• If still get error then visit https://accounts.google.com/b/4/DisplayUnlockCaptcha (where 4 is your authuser id in list logged in account), and click Continue