- The free tier toggl reports look as follows:
- This is fine and dandy, but the task level items don't get exported when you click on export -> csv. Instead, they're grouped by and contain none of the detail:
- We need a way to get the task-level information! Fo' free!
- It looks like the toggl API has a small loophole in the
/time_entriesendpoint which allows you to get task-level info from an API response. - This script calls this API, using your API token (see the bottom of the page), returning all the task information (and more!) between two user-specified dates.
- The file type returned is a simple
.csv, which can be easily uploaded into excel, python, or other utility. Here's an example of the chart you can make with the output which fits a common use case of 'total time between two dates, grouped by tag' - something you can't do without paying for a subscription via the UI:
- python3 (tested on 3.6.6)
- pandas
- requests
- json
- Clone this repository to your machine
- Enter directory
- Format of command is:
python get_tasks.py <api_key> <start_date> <end_date>
- Here's an example with a fake API key.
python get_tasks.py 894e66455860a4ea3fde5dd0cf35f566 2018-08-29T15:42:46+02:00 2018-09-24T15:42:46+02:00
- Note that the timezone is the +02:00 you see in the above example.
- Also note that a maximum of 1,000 entries can be returned per the toggl API docs.
- The script will prompt you for a location to place the output file. If you hit enter, it will place it in
./out.csv.