Script to get your productive time info from RescueTime API

How to use

1. Get your API key from RescueTime. It will be good to create a new API key.
2. Save it to:
   • C:\Users\%username%\.rescuetime (on Windows)
   • ~/.local/share/rescuetime.key (on Linux and Windows)
   • any other path. Pass this path as the -k or --key parameter to the script
3. Install dependencies:
   • local virtual environment:

   python3 -m venv .venv
   source .venv/activate
   pip install -r requirements.txt

   • user global package cache:

   pip install -r requirements.txt

4. Run the script:

python main.py [OPTIONS]

Arguments

• -k, --key - RescueTime API key for the user
• -f, --file - Path to the file with user's API key
• --start - Sets the start day for data batch, inclusive. (always at time 00:00, start hour/minute not supported)
• --end - Sets the end day for data batch, inclusive. (always at time 00:00, start hour/minute not supported)
• -w, --wage - Amount of money you earn per productive hour
• --multiplier - If provided all productive time will be multiplied by that value

Legacy How To

I renamed the old script to __legacy.py, so you could use it.

1. Get your API key from RescueTime. It will be good to create a new API key.
2. Save it to:
   • C:\Users\%username%\.rescuetime (on Windows)
   • ~/.local/share/rescuetime.key (on Linux and Windows)
   • any other path. Pass this path as the -k parameter to the script
3. Install dependencies via pip:

pip install --user colorama requests

4. Run the script

Examples

python source.py -k "C:\path\to\api\key.txt"