python - Getting clean mail data from Microsft Graph API

Question

I have been trying to get clean mail data from Microsoft Graph API into a Django template.

I have tried using

headers={'Prefer': 'outlook.body-content-type="text"'}

and

headers={'Prefer': 'outlook.body-content-type="html"'}

in my python GET request but both of them result in data with tags in them. I have tried using regex to clean my data but it is not as effective because regex removes some important texts.

Is there a simpler way of getting a cleaner mail data?

Answer 1

You need to use the body property of the message to get whether its HTML/Text. You can use preference headers to get it. When you specify either header, a successful response would include the corresponding Preference-Applied header,

• For text format requests: Preference-Applied: outlook.body-content-type="text"
• For HTML format requests: Preference-Applied: outlook.body-content-type="html"

If the body is HTML, by default, Outlook removes any potentially unsafe HTML (for example, JavaScript) embedded in the body property before returning the body content in a REST response.

• To get the entire, original HTML content, include the "Prefer: outlook.allow-unsafe-html " HTTP request header
• Apart from the above, you can $value of the message to get the MIME too.
• In addition, you ended up retrieving HTML data then cleaned out the tags using Beautiful Soup.