TogglPy
Archived: I'm sunsetting this library. See #61.
TogglPy is a python library for interacting with the Toggl API.
Features
- Make requests against any (Toggl) API endpoint with request data as a dictionary
- Generate and save PDFs of summary, weekly, or detailed reports
- Fetch reports as JSON
- Get all workspaces or all clients
- Get a specific workspace or client, by ID or name
- Query projects, by client, or by a single name
- Add custom time entries
Setup
- Install the project with pip:
pip install -U TogglPy
- Import the content:
from toggl.TogglPy import Toggl
- Create a Toggl object:
toggl = Toggl()
- Authenticate either by Toggl credentials OR using your personal API token:
- If trying to access any of the Reports API endpoints, you need to use your personal API token
toggl.setAuthCredentials('<EMAIL>', '<PASSWORD>')
OR:
toggl.setAPIKey('<API-TOKEN>')
I learn best by examples:
Manual GET requests against any Toggl endpoint:
from toggl.TogglPy import Toggl
# create a Toggl object and set our API key
toggl = Toggl()
toggl.setAPIKey("mytogglapikey")
response = toggl.request("https://api.track.toggl.com/api/v8/clients")
# print the client name and ID for each client in the response
# list of returned values can be found in the Toggl docs:
# https://github.com/toggl/toggl_api_docs/blob/master/chapters/clients.md
for client in response:
print("Client name: %s Client ID: %s" % (client['name'], client['id']))
Or, if you want to add some data to your request:
data = {
'id': 42,
'some_key': 'some_value',
'user_agent': 'TogglPy_test',
}
response = toggl.request("https://api.track.toggl.com/api/v8/some/endpoint", parameters=data)
Making a POST request to any Toggl endpoint:
data = {
"project":
{
"name": "some project",
"wid":777,
"template_id":10237,
"is_private":true,
"cid":123397
}
}
response = toggl.postRequest("https://api.track.toggl.com/api/v8/projects", parameters=data)
Generating PDF reports:
Must authenticate with your personal API token to use these endpoints.
# specify that we want reports from this week
data = {
'workspace_id': 0000, # see the next example for getting a workspace ID
'since': '2015-04-27',
'until': '2015-05-03',
}
# download one of each type of report for this time period
toggl.getWeeklyReportPDF(data, "weekly-report.pdf")
toggl.getDetailedReportPDF(data, "detailed-report.pdf")
toggl.getSummaryReportPDF(data, "summary-report.pdf")
Finding workspaces and clients
This will print some raw data that will give you all the info you need to identify clients and workspaces quickly:
print(toggl.getWorkspaces())
print(toggl.getClients())
If you want to clean it up a little replace those print statements with
for workspace in toggl.getWorkspaces():
print("Workspace name: %s\tWorkspace ID:%s" % (workspace['name'], workspace['id']))
for client in toggl.getClients():
print("Client name: %s\tClient ID:%s" % (client['name'], client['id']))
If you want to find a specific client or workspace:
john_doe = toggl.getClient(name="John Doe")
personal = toggl.getWorkspace(name="Personal")
print("John's client ID is %s" % john_doe['id'])
print("The workspace ID for 'Personal' is %s" % personal['id'])
The reverse can also be done; use .getClient(id=0000)
or .getWorkspace(id=000)
to find items by ID.
Starting New Timer
# You can get your project PID in toggl.com->Projects->(select your project)
# and copying the last number of the url
myprojectpid = 10959693
toggl.startTimeEntry("my description", myprojectpid)
Stopping Current Timer
currentTimer = currentRunningTimeEntry()
stopTimeEntry(currentTimer['data']['id'])
Creating a custom time entry
# Create a custom entry for today, of a 9 hour duration, starting at 10 AM:
toggl.createTimeEntry(hourduration=9, projectname='GoogleDrive', hour=10)
# Or speed up the query process and provide the client's name:
toggl.createTimeEntry(hourduration=9, projectname='GoogleDrive', clientname='Google', hour=10)
# Provide *month* and/or *day* too for specific dates:
toggl.createTimeEntry(hourduration=9, projectname='GoogleDrive', clientname='Google', month=1, day=31, hour=10)
# Automate missing time entries!
for day in (29, 30, 31):
toggl.createTimeEntry(hourduration=9, projectname='someproject', day=day, hour=10)
Automate daily records
# toggle_entry.py
import datetime
if datetime.datetime.today().weekday() not in (4, 5):
toggl.createTimeEntry(hourduration=9, projectname='someproject', hour=10)
Add your daily records as a cron job:
(crontab -l ; echo "0 22 * * * toggl_entry.py")| crontab -