GMail Atom Feed - Webhook problem

Troubleshooting
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@KyleG / @Dave

So. I was able to find a very easy alternative method to gmail atom feed. I found this tutorial on google script and decided to use it…

Basically, it provides you with a URL that will return the data in the format you request, so I simply altered it to return a JSON:

/*    Gmail Counter by Amit Agarwal   */
/*    Published on 06/17/2013         */

function doGet() {
  
  var cache = CacheService.getPublicCache();
  var counter = cache.get("gmail-counter");
  
  // Cache the counter to stay within the Apps Script quota
  if (!counter) {
    counter = GmailApp.getInboxUnreadCount();
    // Cache the counter value for 20 minutes
    cache.put("gmail-counter", counter, 1200); 
  }
  
  // You can customize the output message
  counter = "{\"unread\":" + counter + "}"  //<<<<<< this bit
    
  // Output the result in plain text format
  return ContentService.createTextOutput(counter)
    .setMimeType(ContentService.MimeType.TEXT);
  
}

then created a new webhook with the URL that Google provided:

{
    "event": "gmail_count",
    "url": "https://script.google.com/macros/s/Xr7wodJdGwRaLW9eNGE6V-nBX_XhRr3z5d3y0G_3d7dl3e03qteT7pmz/exec",
    "requestType": "GET",
	"headers": null,
	"query": null,
	"responseTemplate": "{{unread}}",
	"responseTopic": "{{PARTICLE_DEVICE_ID}}_gmail_count",
	"json": null,
	"auth": null,
	"coreid": null,
	"deviceid": null,
	"mydevices": true
}

and it returns rather a rather pretty little number

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Look Mom, no parsing!!!

void gotGmailFeed(const char *event, const char *data)
{
  emailCount = atoi(data);
}

My word clock is happy again!

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