eigenvivek / Closed-Location

Self-tracking system integrated with Google Sheets.

Closed-Location

Vivek Gopalakrishnan | June 15, 2018

Overview

This repository contains code for a tracking system that logs your location in a Google Spreadsheet.

When run, the script fetches the user's information using the ipstack API. Relevant information from this request is parsed and subsequently stored on a Google Spreadsheet. If the user wishes to check their location history, they merely need to access the spreadsheet to see where the device has been.

Motivated by my distaste for a laptop tracking system recommended by my university (FrontDoorSoftware is a special kind of awful), I decided to write my own! Thus, Closed-Location was born!

To-Do

• Make script run on startup
• Run update_sheet function at a regular interval (probably every 15 minutes)

APIs

If you wish to run this software on your machine, you will need API keys for the following:

• ipstack
• Google Drive API
• Google Sheets API

User guide

1. Save your ipstack key as a string in a file named config.py with the following: ipstack_key = YOUR_KEY_HERE

2. Save your Google Sheets/Drive credentials (they are the same thing) in a file called client_secret.json.

3. Share your target spreadsheet with the client_email listed in the client_secret.json.

4. Run main.py.