beebole-2-heyupdate

Post beebole.com entries to heyupdate.com

This script will post existing task entries from the time-recording tool BeeBole to the workgroup notification tool HeyUpdate.

It uses the APIs of the respective products, described in the HeyUpdate API Documentation and the BeeBole API Documentation.

Strategy

To authenticate yourself to each API you will first need to find your personal authentication tokens. For both services, login using your usual account, and then you'll find your tokens here:

http://beebole.com/api/#authentication
HeyUpdate: Go to your User settings > Personal Access Tokens

In each case the token is a string that looks typically like this:

66767f3330876e1332ababa12345678ac20fa3b6

Cut-and-paste this and either set up environment variables as shown below or just patch the script.

Requirements

A valid account at HeyUpdate
A valid account at BeeBole
A Linux terminal window
curl (you almost certainly have this)
The Perl module JSON. If you get error messages about this, install it with e.g. cpan -i JSON.

Instructions

Download bbl2heyupdate.sh and put it anywhere
chmod +x bbl2heyupdate.sh
Set up regular environment variables BBL_TOKEN and HEYUPDATE_TOKEN to the values you retrieved above.
Set up regular environment variable BBL_ACCT for your BeeBole company-level "account" name. The most convenient place to declare these is in your .profile or .bash_profile. e.g.:

export BBL_TOKEN=66767f3330876e1332ababa12345678ac20fa3b6
export HEYUPDATE_TOKEN=aba12345678ac20fa3b666767f3330876e1332ab
export BBL_ACCT=arkey-malarkey

After your next fresh login test that these are now available. e.g.:

echo BBL_TOKEN is $BBL_TOKEN, reading from company $BBL_ACCT
echo HEYUPDATE_TOKEN is $HEYUPDATE_TOKEN

Alternatively, just hard-code your tokens as can be seen in the first few lines of the script. It's not a sin.

Usage

./bbl2heyupdate.sh [yyyy-mm-dd]

This will do the synch for the given date. The date is optional and defaults to today.

Author

Frank Carnovale

http://binary.com

Modified for use with HeyUpdate by Tom Graham.

tompedals / beebole-2-heyupdate