A simple node tool provide inbox testing functionality.
Can be run as a webserver or imported directly into Nightwatch (for example)
You want to test your website's reset-password mechanism automatically.
You have a Nightwatch (or similar) automated process which submits the reset password form on-site. You then want access to the reset URL contained within the contents of the email.
This tool helps you retrieve that URL.
You can provide a regex to filter the URLs - allowing you to search for a specific url, as well as filter the searched emails based on the TO header.
The use case for TO filtering is address extensions, allowing you to use a single inbox for multiple users, e.g.
Create a new gmail account
See this: https://developers.google.com/gmail/api/quickstart/nodejs
run node src/index.js
The first time you run this, you'll see an authorization url output to the console. Copy this url, and visit it. Follow the in-browser steps to authorize the action Copy the provided token back into the console, as instructed.
tester.findUrls(toPrefix, urlRegex)
Make a GET to /emails/find-url?url=&to=
url- a regex to apply to eachhref=""found within the email bodyto- a string to match against the email address prefix (part before the @) in the TO header in the emails.
e.g.
GET /emails/find-url?url=%5Ehttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.mydomain.com%2Freset-password
(without URL encoding, for demonstrative purposes: GET /emails/find-url?url=^http://www.mydomain.com/reset-password)
Once you've found the email with the URL you want, you should clean up after yourself.
tester.deleteMessage(msgId)
Make a DELETE request to /emails/<messageId>
where <messageId> is a msgId value obtained from the results of making a GET to /emails/find-urls