timetasker

Timetasker CLI

Provides a nice command line interface to submit time sheets using Time Task. This command will submit a single time entry.

The project vastly improves upon a Chrome extension that auto-fills the time sheet form on the website.

Usage

This will submit a time entry for the "example" project on the current day with a duration of 7 hours and an empty description:

$ timetasker --project example

Here we set a custom time of 4.5 hours:

$ timetasker --project example --time 4.5

Now we specify a date and add a description:

$ timetasker --project example \
>     --date 2017-05-31 \
>     --description "Worked on Timetasker"

And because it's a shell command, we can combine it with other commands. Let's create a week's worth of time entries starting on Monday May 29th, 2017:

$ for d in $(ruby -e "require 'date'
> d = Date.new(2017, 5, 29)
> (0..4).each { |i| puts (d + i).strftime('%Y-%m-%d') }");
>   do timetasker --project example --date $d;
> done

Configuration

Timetasker relies on a configuration file in order to work properly.

If this is your first time running Timetasker, use this command to generate a skeleton config:

$ timetasker --write-config

This will generate a $HOME/.config/timetasker/config.toml file that looks like this:

[auth]
username = ""
password_cmd = ""


[profile]
person_id = # ADD PERSON ID


[projects.example]
client =    # ADD CLIENT ID
project =   # ADD PROJECT ID
module =    # ADD MODULE ID
task = 0
work_type = # ADD WORK TYPE ID
billable = true

Fill in the username with your TimeTask username. The password_cmd should be a shell command that will output your TimeTask password to STDOUT.

Notice the [projects.example] line? That's a project alias. If we, for instance, changed it to [projects.my-cool-project], we could post a time entry to that project like this:

$ timetasker --project my-cool-project

You say you have more than one project? No problem, just copy-paste an additional [projects.example] section and give it a new name.

To fill in the other configuration options, we're going to have to take a trip to the TimeTask website (relax, we won't be using it much after this).

1. Visit https://*.timetask.com/time/add/
2. Fill in a single entry, but don't submit it yet
3. Open the Network console in your browser's developer tools
4. Submit your time entry
5. View the POST request to https://*.timetask.com/index.php
6. Take a look at the form data of the request

You should see something like this:

module:time
action:submitmultipletime
f_entryIndexes:0
f_personID0:111111
f_clientID0:22222
f_projectID0:333333
f_moduleID0:444444
f_taskID0:0
f_worktypeID0:555555
f_date0:04/06/17
f_time0:7
f_billable0:t
f_description0:

Copy the numbers into their corresponding fields in your config.toml file.

Once you have a complete config file, you should be all set to start posting time entries!

Eventually, you'll have to update the module value in your configuration file to align with the current sprint. Instead of visiting the website to get the new ID of the module, the modules of a project can be listed from the program:

$ timetasker --project example --list-modules

This produces the following output:

ID        Module
77777     Sprint 1
222222    Sprint 2

The correct sprint ID can then be easily copied from this list into config.toml.

Install

Visit the releases page, download the version corresponding to your platform, and put the resulting timetasker binary on your PATH.

To install from source, use:

$ go install github.com/teddywing/timetasker

Bash completion is available for project aliases. To take advantage of it, source the completion file in your Bash profile:

$ source ~/path/to/timetasker.bash-completion

License

Copyright © 2017 Teddy Wing. Licensed under the GNU GPLv3+ (see the included COPYING file).