Email Reply Parser for Python

A port of GitHub's Email Reply Parser library, by the fine folks at Zapier.

Original port seems abandoned since 2020, this is an attempt to maintain it.

Summary

Email Reply Parser makes it easy to grab only the last reply to an on-going email thread.

Say you'd like to parse out a user's response to your transaction email messages:

Yes that is fine, I will email you in the morning.

On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 1:48 PM, Zapier <contact@zapier.com> wrote:

> Our support team just commented on your open Ticket:
> "Hi Royce, can we chat in the morning about your question?"

Email clients handle reply formatting differently, making parsing a pain. We include tests for many cases. The parsed email:

Yes that is fine, I will email you in the morning.

Installation

Using pip, install directly from PyPI:

pip install email-reply-parser-jimmy927

Or install the latest version from GitHub:

pip install git+https://github.com/jimmy927/email-reply-parser.git

Tutorial

How to parse an email message

Step 1: Import email reply parser package

from email_reply_parser import EmailReplyParser

Step 2: Provide email message as type String

EmailReplyParser.read(email_message)

How to only retrieve the reply message

Step 1: Import email reply parser package

from email_reply_parser import EmailReplyParser

Step 2: Provide email message as type string using parse_reply class method.

EmailReplyParser.parse_reply(email_message)