Automatic Time Tracking Software Add-On for Billable & Project Time Keeping

Overview

Chrometa provides a simple rest-based API to import data into your application. A user generates a key for your application to use, and you can pull data for that user from the URL show below. Data is returned a day at a time, which gives you a good way to update a progress bar if you wish to pull more than one day's worth of data.

Sample Code

Here's some sample ruby code:

  require "uri"
  require "net/http"
  require "rexml/document"

  email = "sample_user@chrometa.com"
  api_key = "e3637372f49518c89ef3668b44b002b15da10d88"
  params = { "date" => "10/11/2010" }

  url = URI.parse("https://api.chrometa.com/api/report")
  req = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url.path)
  req.basic_auth email, api_key
  req.set_form_data(params)

  http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
  http.use_ssl = true
  http.verify_mode = OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE
  
  resp = http.start {|http| http.request(req) }

  puts "XML Response ==============================="
  puts resp.body
  puts "============================================"

  xml = REXML::Document.new( resp.body )
  root = xml.elements["chrometa-info"]
  puts "Email : " + root.attributes["email"]
  puts "Date : " + root.attributes["date"]

  for client in root.elements do
    puts "  Client Name : " + client.attributes["name"]

    for project in client.elements do
      puts "    Project Name : " + project.attributes["name"]
      puts "    Project Rate : " + project.attributes["rate"]

      for time_entry in project.elements do
        puts "      Application : " + time_entry.attributes["application"]
        puts "      Timestamp : " + time_entry.attributes["timestamp"]
        puts "      Activity    : " + time_entry.attributes["activity"]
        puts "      URL         : " + time_entry.attributes["url"]
        puts "      Seconds     : " + time_entry.attributes["seconds"]
        puts "      Billable    : " + time_entry.attributes["billable"]
      end
    end
  end

XML Format

The XML format is very simple. Here is an example document:

  <chrometa-info date='2010-11-01' email='example@example.com'>
  <client name='Client1'>
    <project name='Project1' rate='5'>
      <time_entry seconds='1552'
                     billable=''
                     timestamp='2010-11-01 22:26:39.179722'
                     activity='TweetDeck'
                     url='null'
                     application='TweetDeck.exe'/>
    </project>
  </client>
  <client name='Client2'>
    <project name='Project2' rate='0'>
      <time_entry seconds='344'
                     billable='' timestamp='2010-11-01 21:04:17.892618'
                     activity='Mail - Ted'
                     url='https://mail.google.com/'
                     application='chrome.exe'/>
      <time_entry seconds='1055'
                     billable=''
                     timestamp='2010-11-01 21:04:17.892618'
                     activity='Mail - Josh'
                     url='https://mail.google.com/'
                     application='chrome.exe'/>
    </project>
  </client>
</chrometa-info>

Note: Only data that people have classified under public (i.e. non-personal) projects is available via our API.

The Chrometa API

Integrating passive time tracking into your app couldn't be simpler

Overview

Sample Code

XML Format