Getting email from a third party tool using api

[Dmitry_Sagalovskiy]

Grist formulas run in a secure sandbox without access to the network. Here is an answer to a similar question:

I want to get data on request module

Hosted Grist runs all formulas in a sandbox that has no access to the internet, so that users can open documents without needing to worry about malicious code. But if you run Grist on your own computer (see grist-core) then you are free to do anything you like, including installing the requests module and calling it. I tried your snippet, and it fetched data from instagram, but the result didn’t seem to be in the expected format? Another option is to look for a service that does what you need t…

If running a self-managed server, there is an experimental REQUEST function you can enable while running code in a sandbox. See this thread: Python requests package.

In normal hosted Grist (on getgrist.com), there is no way for formulas to talk to the outside world. The other options are the REST API (where you are responsible to running your script), integrator services, and Custom Widgets.