Export script for RescueTime data. Saves user's activity data in a CSV file for every month between START_DATE and END_DATE, with the highest available resolution (minutes).

rescuetime_export.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
#-*- coding: utf-8 -*-

# RescueTime Data Export

import os
import requests
from datetime import date, datetime
from dateutil.rrule import rrule, MONTHLY
from dateutil.parser import parse
from itertools import izip

API_URL = "https://www.rescuetime.com/anapi/data"
API_KEY = "api_key"
DUMP_DIR = "rescuetime_dump"
FILE_PREFIX = "rt"

START_DATE = '2012-01-01'
END_DATE = '2015-12-31'

def get_rt_data():

    dates = iter(list(rrule(
                MONTHLY, 
                bymonthday=(-1,1,), 
                dtstart=parse(START_DATE), 
                until=parse(END_DATE))))

    for (month_start, month_end) in izip(dates, dates):
        print "Getting Data for Interval", month_start, "to", month_end
        
        month_start = month_start.date()
        month_end = month_end.date()

        response = requests.get(API_URL, {
                'key': API_KEY,
                'perspective': 'interval',
                'format': 'csv',
                'restrict_begin': month_start.isoformat(),
                'restrict_end': month_end.isoformat(),
                'resolution_time': 'minute'
            })

        file_name = (
            FILE_PREFIX + 
            month_start.strftime('%Y%m%d') + 
            "-" + 
            month_end.strftime('%Y%m%d') + 
            ".csv"
        )
        file_path = os.path.join(DUMP_DIR, file_name)
        
        if not os.path.exists(DUMP_DIR):
            os.mkdir(DUMP_DIR)
        
        with open(file_path, 'w') as f:
            f.write(response.text.encode('utf-8'))

        print "Data Saved to", file_path
        print ""

if __name__ == '__main__':
    get_rt_data()