Introduction

The WakaTime API follows common REST conventions. This means you should use GET requests to retrieve data and POST, PUT, or PATCH requests to modify data. All API requests must be done over HTTPS.

Every response will be a JSON object, which is a key-value hash. Data for a resource will be returned in the key named data. Errors will be returned in the key named errors or error.

HTTP response codes indicate the status of your request:

  • 200 - Ok: The request has succeeded.
  • 201 - Created: The request has been fulfilled and resulted in a new resource being created.
  • 202 - Accepted: The request has been accepted for processing, but the processing has not been completed. The stats resource may return this code.
  • 302 - Redirect: Sometimes we return 302 instead of 429, resulting in a request timeout. If that’s the case, try spreading out the number of requests you’re making over a few minutes instead of all at once.
  • 400 - Bad Request: The request is invalid. Check error message and try again.
  • 401 - Unauthorized: The request requires authentication, or your authentication was invalid.
  • 403 - Forbidden: You are authenticated, but do not have permission to access the resource.
  • 404 - Not Found: The resource does not exist.
  • 429 - Too Many Requests: You are being rate limited, try making fewer than 10 requests per second on average over any 5 minute period.
  • 500 - Server Error: Service unavailable, try again later.

All API resources have the url prefix https://api.wakatime.com/api/v1/.

When using the WakaTime trademark or logo in your application, please follow our usage guidelines.

Security

Do NOT use the API with your secret key on a public website. Instead, create an embeddable chart that's safe to share publicly. Choose the JSON format to securely access your coding activity with JavaScript:

Embeddable SVG Charts and JSON

Authentication

OAuth 2.0 Endpoints

Create an app to get an OAuth 2.0 client token.

The OAuth 2.0 provider endpoints are:

  • https://wakatime.com/oauth/authorize - Redirect your users here to request permission to access their account. Required url arguments are client_id, response_type of code or token, redirect_uri. Optional parameters are scope, state, force_approve.
  • https://wakatime.com/oauth/token - Make a server-side POST request here to get the secret access token. Required data is client_id, client_secret, redirect_uri must be the same url used in authorize step, grant_type of authorization_code, and the code received from the authorize step.
  • https://wakatime.com/oauth/revoke - Make a server-side POST request here to invalidate a secret access token. Required data is client_id, client_secret, and the token (access or refresh) to be invalidated.

For information about using these endpoints, see RFC6749 OAuth 2.0.

Using Access Token

After getting the bearer (access) token from https://wakatime.com/oauth/token, you can now make authenticated api calls using the Authorization request header (RFC 6750).

For example, if your user's access token is waka_tok_12345, you would add this header to your request:
Authorization: Bearer waka_tok_12345.

Alternatively, you can authenticate with url args named access_token, or just token and app_secret, client_secret, or just secret.

Using the Refresh Token

You should always get a refresh_token from the /oauth/token response. The refresh_token can be used when your access_token has expired, to re-authorize without having to prompt the user.

To use the refresh_token, make a POST request to https://wakatime.com/oauth/token to get a new secret access token. Required data is client_id, client_secret, redirect_uri must be the same url used in authorize step, grant_type of refresh_token, and the refresh_token received from a previous token response.

Revoking Tokens

Your app should revoke tokens when users disconnect their WakaTime integration, delete their account on your app, or you no longer need access to a user’s account. To revoke an access token, and it’s corresponding refresh token, send a POST request to /oauth/revoke containing your app’s client_id, client_secret, and the token (access or refresh token) that you would like to revoke. Both JSON (Content-Type: application/json) and form-urlencoded (Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded) are supported as the POST body. The response status will be 200 success if the token is successfully disabled. If the token is already revoked or expired, this endpoint will still respond with a 200 success response.

For example:

POST /oauth/revoke HTTP/1.1 Host: wakatime.com Content-Type: application/json {"client_id":"XXX","client_secret":"waka_sec_XXX","token":"waka_tok_12345"}

To revoke all tokens for a user, send user_id along with your app’s client_id and client_secret:

POST /oauth/revoke HTTP/1.1 Host: wakatime.com Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded client_id=XXX client_secret=waka_sec_XXX user_id=12345

Or, revoke all tokens for a user using a past access or refresh token for that user, with all=true:

POST /oauth/revoke HTTP/1.1 Host: wakatime.com Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded client_id=XXX client_secret=waka_sec_XXX all=true token=waka_tok_12345

Or, revoke all tokens for all users of your app:

POST /oauth/revoke HTTP/1.1 Host: wakatime.com Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded client_id=XXX client_secret=waka_sec_XXX all=true

Scopes

Scopes are sent to the authorize url as a comma or space separated list, to request optional permissions for a user.

  • read_summaries - access user’s Summaries and Stats including categories, dependencies, editors, languages, machines, operating systems, and projects. Consider instead requesting scopes for only the summaries you need. For ex: scope=read_summaries.languages,read_summaries.editors to only request access to the user’s language and editor summaries and stats.
  • read_summaries.categories - access user’s Summaries and Stats, limited to the user’s categories.
  • read_summaries.dependencies - access user’s Summaries and Stats, limited to the user’s dependencies.
  • read_summaries.editors - access user’s Summaries and Stats, limited to the user’s editors.
  • read_summaries.languages - access user’s Summaries and Stats, limited to the user’s languages.
  • read_summaries.machines - access user’s Summaries and Stats, limited to the user’s machines.
  • read_summaries.operating_systems - access user’s Summaries and Stats, limited to the user’s operating systems.
  • read_summaries.projects - access user’s Summaries and Stats, limited to the user’s projects.
  • read_stats - access user’s Stats including categories, dependencies, editors, languages, machines, operating systems, and projects. Consider instead requesting scopes for only the stats you need. For ex: scope=read_stats.languages,read_stats.editors to only request access to the user’s language and editor stats.
  • read_stats.best_day - access user’s Stats, limited to the user’s best day in the requested time range.
  • read_stats.categories - access user’s Stats, limited to the user’s categories.
  • read_stats.dependencies - access user’s Stats, limited to the user’s dependencies.
  • read_stats.editors - access user’s Stats, limited to the user’s editors.
  • read_stats.languages - access user’s Stats, limited to the user’s languages.
  • read_stats.machines - access user’s Stats, limited to the user’s machines.
  • read_stats.operating_systems - access user’s Stats, limited to the user’s operating systems.
  • read_stats.projects - access user’s Stats, limited to the user’s projects.
  • read_goals - access user’s Goals.
  • read_orgs - access user’s organizations, and coding activity for dashboard members.
  • write_orgs - modify user’s organizations, and org dashboards.
  • read_private_leaderboards - access user’s private leaderboards.
  • write_private_leaderboards - modify user’s private leaderboards, including adding/removing members when current user had Admin or Owner role.
  • read_heartbeats - access user’s coding activity, projects, files, editors, languages, operating systems, dependencies, Stats, Durations, External Durations, and Heartbeats. If you don’t need access to Durations or Heartbeats, consider only requesting read_summaries scope instead.
  • write_heartbeats - modify user’s coding activity with the ability to create, edit, and delete Heartbeats and External Durations.
  • email - access user’s private email address; not necessary for user’s public email and public profile info.

Example

OAuth 2.0 authentication flow using rauth (Python):

#!/usr/bin/env python

import hashlib
import os
import sys
from rauth import OAuth2Service

if sys.version_info[0] == 3:
    raw_input = input

print('Find your App Id at wakatime.com/apps')
client_id = raw_input('Enter your App Id: ')
client_secret = raw_input('Enter your App Secret: ')

service = OAuth2Service(
    client_id=client_id,  # your App ID from https://wakatime.com/apps
    client_secret=client_secret,  # your App Secret from https://wakatime.com/apps
    name='wakatime',
    authorize_url='https://wakatime.com/oauth/authorize',
    access_token_url='https://wakatime.com/oauth/token',
    base_url='https://wakatime.com/api/v1/')

redirect_uri = 'https://wakatime.com/oauth/test'
state = hashlib.sha1(os.urandom(40)).hexdigest()
params = {'scope': 'email,read_stats.languages',
          'response_type': 'code',
          'state': state,
          'redirect_uri': redirect_uri}

url = service.get_authorize_url(**params)

print('**** Visit this url in your browser ****')
print('*' * 80)
print(url)
print('*' * 80)
print('**** After clicking Authorize, paste code here and press Enter ****')
code = raw_input('Enter code from url: ')

# Make sure returned state has not changed for security reasons, and exchange
# code for an Access Token.
headers = {'Accept': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'}
print('Getting an access token...')
session = service.get_auth_session(headers=headers,
                                   data={'code': code,
                                         'grant_type': 'authorization_code',
                                         'redirect_uri': redirect_uri})

print('Getting current user from API...')
user = session.get('users/current').json()
print('Authenticated via OAuth as {0}'.format(user['data']['email']))
print("Getting user's code stats from API...")
stats = session.get('users/current/stats')
print(stats.text)

Using refresh_token to get a new access_token when the previous one has expired, using rauth (Python):

import requests
from urllib.parse import parse_qsl

refresh_token = dict(parse_qsl(session.access_token_response.text))['refresh_token']

data = {
    'grant_type': 'refresh_token',
    'client_id': client_id,
    'client_secret': client_secret,
    'refresh_token': refresh_token,
}
resp = requests.post('https://wakatime.com/oauth/token', data=data, timeout=5)
print(resp.text)
# Or, using the rauth library:
# session = service.get_auth_session(data=data)

Limits

Each app is allowed 8 active OAuth tokens per user.

New tokens are rate limited to 10 per user per hour.

If an app creates more than 8 tokens for the same user then the oldest token is revoked to make room for the new token, except when hitting the 10 per hour rate limit.

OAuth tokens using response_type=code expire after 365 days.

OAuth tokens using response_type=token expire after 12 hours.

Make sure to re-use tokens instead of requesting new ones, and revoke tokens if you’re no longer using them.

400 Error (Invalid redirect_uri: Not valid for this client.)

If you see this error when running the example, add https://wakatime.com/oauth/test as an authorized redirect url in your App's settings.

Using API Key

Most apps should use OAuth, but you can also authenticate to the WakaTime API using your secret API Key.

Using HTTP Basic Auth pass your API Key base64 encoded in the Authorization header. Don't forget to prepend Basic to your api key after base64 encoding it.

For example, when using HTTP Basic Auth with an api key of 12345 you should add this header to your request:
Authorization: Basic MTIzNDU=

That’s because when you decode the base64 string "MTIzNDU=" you get "12345".

Alternatively, you can pass your api key as a query parameter in your request like ?api_key=XXXX.

Do NOT use your API Key on a public website. Instead, use embeddable charts and JSON.

Writing your own plugin

WakaTime plugins are extensions that run inside your text editor or IDE sending usage stats, called heartbeats, to your WakaTime Dashboard. All official WakaTime plugins are open source on GitHub.

When building your own editor plugin, use our Creating a WakaTime plugin guide.

Embedding Charts & JSON

Want to share your WakaTime stats? Use the embeddable charts and JSON to safely embed your coding activity on a public website without leaking your secret api key. Select the JSON format for access to your code stats in JavaScript. We don’t support Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) because the only way to access your code stats safely in public JavaScript is with embeddable JSON. Embeddable JSON does support JSONP. Embeddable charts and JSON use a one-time unique url and can be retracted to prevent future access to your code stats.

Never use the WakaTime API from a public website, except for embeddables. Using your secret api key in client-side JavaScript gives everyone on the internet full access to your WakaTime account.

All Time Since Today

GET /api/v1/users/:user/all_time_since_today

GET /api/v1/users/current/all_time_since_today

Description

The total time logged since account created, available even for Free accounts.

URL Parameters

project - String - optional - Shows the total time for a project, since project created.

Scope Required

read_stats

Example Response

Response Code: 200

Commit

GET /api/v1/users/:user/projects/:project/commits/:hash

GET /api/v1/users/current/projects/:project/commits/:hash

Description

A single commit from a WakaTime project showing the time spent coding on the commit.

URL Parameters

branch - String - optional - Filter the commit to a branch; defaults to the repo’s default branch name.

Scope Required

read_heartbeats

Example Response

Response Code: 200

Commits

GET /api/v1/users/:user/projects/:project/commits

GET /api/v1/users/current/projects/:project/commits

Description

List of commits for a WakaTime project showing the time spent coding in each commit.

URL Parameters

author - String - optional - Filter commits to only those authored by the given username.

branch - String - optional - Filter commits to a branch; defaults to the repo’s default branch name.

page - Integer - optional - Page number of commits.

Scope Required

read_heartbeats

Example Response

Response Code: 200

Data Dumps

GET /api/v1/users/:user/data_dumps

GET /api/v1/users/current/data_dumps

Description

List data exports for the user. A data export can also be created at https://wakatime.com/settings, and contains all the user’s code stats as daily Summaries in JSON format since the user’s account was created.

Scope Required

read_heartbeats

Example Response

Response Code: 200


POST /api/v1/users/:user/data_dumps

POST /api/v1/users/current/data_dumps

Description

Start generating a data export in the background. When finished, the percent complete will be 100 and the status 'Completed', with a 'download_url' available for downloading. An email will also be sent to the user with the download url when exporting completed.

Scope Required

read_heartbeats

JSON POST Data

{
  "type": <string: Required export type; Either 'daily' or 'heartbeats'>,
  "email_when_finished": <boolean: Optional flag to disable the email notification when exporting completed; defaults to true>,
}

Example Response

Response Code: 201

Durations

GET /api/v1/users/:user/durations

GET /api/v1/users/current/durations

Description

A user's coding activity for the given day as an array of durations. Durations are read-only representations of Heartbeats, created by joining multiple Heartbeats together when they’re within 15 minutes of each other. The 15 minutes default can be changed with your account’s Keystroke Timeout preference.

URL Parameters

date - Date - required - Requested day; Durations will be returned from 12am until 11:59pm in user's timezone for this day.

project - String - optional - Only show durations for this project.

branches - String - optional - Only show durations for these branches; comma separated list of branch names.

timeout - Integer - optional - The keystroke timeout preference used when joining heartbeats into durations. Defaults the the user's keystroke timeout value. See the FAQ for more info.

writes_only - Boolean - optional - The writes_only preference. Defaults to the user's writes_only setting.

timezone - String - optional - The timezone for given date. Defaults to the user's timezone.

slice_by - String - optional - Optional primary key to use when slicing durations. Defaults to “entity”. Can be “entity”, “language”, “dependencies”, “os”, “editor”, “category”, or “machine”.

Scope Required

read_heartbeats

Example Response

Response Code: 200

Editors

GET /api/v1/editors

Description

List of WakaTime IDE plugins, latest plugin versions, and their color used on WakaTime charts.

URL Parameters

unreleased - Boolean - optional - Include unreleased plugins.

Example Response

Response Code: 200

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External Durations

GET /api/v1/users/:user/external_durations

GET /api/v1/users/current/external_durations

Description

A user's external durations for the given day. External durations aren’t created by IDE plugins. They’re created from external apps, such as the Google Calendar integration. They should be reproducible from the external integration. External durations for an integration are deleted when the user disconnects the integration from their WakaTime account.

URL Parameters

date - Date - required - Requested day; Durations will be returned from 12am until 11:59pm in user's timezone for this day.

project - String - optional - Only show durations for this project.

branches - String - optional - Only show durations for these branches; comma separated list of branch names.

timezone - String - optional - The timezone for given date. Defaults to the user's timezone.

Scope Required

read_heartbeats

Example Response

Response Code: 200


POST /api/v1/users/:user/external_durations

POST /api/v1/users/current/external_durations

POST /api/v1/users/:user/external_durations.bulk

POST /api/v1/users/current/external_durations.bulk

Description

Creates a duration representing activity for a user with start and end time, when Heartbeat pings aren’t available. For ex: meetings. External durations are not created by IDE plugins, only OAuth apps can create external durations. External durations must be created within one year from Today, and must not start before the associated user’s account was created. Use external_id to prevent creating duplicate durations. Using the same external_id will update any existing duration with the provided attributes. The bulk endpoint accepts an array of external durations, limited to 1,000 per POST request. The bulk endpoint will return 201 response status code with an array of status_codes for each duration sent. That’s because most invalid durations can be ommitted without problems while still allowing your app’s valid durations.

Scope Required

write_heartbeats

JSON POST Data

{
  "external_id": <string: unique identifier for this duration on the external provider>,
  "entity": <string: entity which this duration is logging time towards, such as an absolute file path or a domain>,
  "type": <string: type of entity; can be file, app, or domain>,
  "category": <string: category for this activity (optional); normally this is inferred automatically from type; can be coding, building, indexing, debugging, browsing, running tests, writing tests, manual testing, writing docs, communicating, code reviewing, researching, learning, or designing>,
  "start_time": <float: UNIX epoch timestamp when the activity started; numbers after decimal point are fractions of a second>,
  "end_time": <float: UNIX epoch timestamp when the activity ended; numbers after decimal point are fractions of a second>,
  "project": <string: project name (optional)>,
  "branch": <string: branch name (optional)>,
  "language": <string: language name (optional)>,
  "meta": <string: A metadata string value with max length 2083. Only used by custom rules for equals, contains, starts with, ends with matching. Can be any string value you want. (optional)>,
}

Example Response

Response Code: 201

Goal

GET /api/v1/users/:user/goals/:goal

GET /api/v1/users/current/goals/:goal

Description

A single goal. This endpoint is only backed by cached data, similar to the Status Bar endpoint. If there’s no data yet in the cache, an empty Goal is returned while the cache updates in the background:
{"data":{"chart_data":[]}}.
Notice the keys present in the empty response are the only ones necessary for the wakatime-cli --today-goal command.

Scope Required

read_goals

Example Response

Response Code: 200

Goals

GET /api/v1/users/:user/goals

GET /api/v1/users/current/goals

Description

List a user’s goals.

Scope Required

read_goals

Example Response

Response Code: 200

Heartbeats

GET /api/v1/users/:user/heartbeats

GET /api/v1/users/current/heartbeats

Description

A user's heartbeats sent from plugins for the given day as an array.

URL Parameters

date - Date - required - Requested day; Heartbeats will be returned from 12am until 11:59pm in user's timezone for this day.

Scope Required

read_heartbeats

Example Response

Response Code: 200


POST /api/v1/users/:user/heartbeats

POST /api/v1/users/current/heartbeats

POST /api/v1/users/:user/heartbeats.bulk

POST /api/v1/users/current/heartbeats.bulk

Description

Creates a heartbeat representing activity for a user. The bulk endpoint accepts an array of heartbeats, limited to 25 per POST request. Editor and OS are detected from the User-Agent header. Normally you don’t need this endpoint and should use wakatime-cli to send heartbeats.

Scope Required

write_heartbeats

JSON POST Data

{
  "entity": <string: entity heartbeat is logging time against, such as an absolute file path or domain>,
  "type": <string: type of entity; can be file, app, or domain>,
  "category": <string: category for this activity (optional); normally this is inferred automatically from type; can be coding, building, indexing, debugging, browsing, running tests, writing tests, manual testing, writing docs, communicating, code reviewing, researching, learning, or designing>,
  "time": <float: UNIX epoch timestamp; numbers after decimal point are fractions of a second>,
  "project": <string: project name (optional)>,
  "project_root_count": <integer: count of the number of folders in the project root path (optional); for ex: if the project folder is /Users/user/projects/wakatime and the entity path is /Users/user/projects/wakatime/models/user.py then the project_root_count is 5 and the relative entity path after removing 5 prefix folders is models/user.py>,
  "branch": <string: branch name (optional)>,
  "language": <string: language name (optional)>,
  "dependencies": <string: comma separated list of dependencies detected from entity file (optional)>,
  "lines": <integer: total number of lines in the entity (when entity type is file)>,
  "line_additions": <integer: number of lines added since last heartbeat in the current file (optional)>,
  "line_deletions": <integer: number of lines removed since last heartbeat in the current file (optional)>,
  "lineno": <integer: current line row number of cursor with the first line starting at 1 (optional)>,
  "cursorpos": <integer: current cursor column position starting from 1 (optional)>,
  "is_write": <boolean: whether this heartbeat was triggered from writing to a file (optional)>,
}

Example Response

Response Code: 201

Insights

GET /api/v1/users/:user/insights/:insight_type/:range

GET /api/v1/users/current/insights/:insight_type/:range

Description

An insight about the user’s coding activity for the given time range. insight_type can be one of weekday, days, best_day, daily_average, projects, languages, editors, categories, machines, or operating_systems. range can be a YYYY year, YYYY-MM month or one of last_7_days, last_30_days, last_6_months, last_year, or all_time. For accounts subscribed to the free plan, time ranges >= one year are updated on the first request. It’s best to always check is_up_to_date and retry your request when the response is stale.

URL Parameters

timeout - Integer - optional - The keystroke timeout value used to calculate these stats. Defaults the the user's keystroke timeout value.

writes_only - Boolean - optional - The writes_only value used to calculate these stats. Defaults to the user's writes_only setting.

weekday - Integer - optional - Filter days to only the given weekday. Only works with days insight. Can be an integer 0-6 or corresponding string monday-sunday.

Scope Required

read_summaries

Example Response

Response Code: 200

Leaders

GET /api/v1/leaders

Description

List of users ranked by coding activity in descending order. Same as the public leaderboards. The public leaderboard updates at least once every 12 hours, and usually more frequently.

URL Parameters

language - String - optional - Filter leaders by a specific language.

is_hireable - Boolean - optional - Filter leaders by the hireable badge.

country_code - String - optional - Filter leaders by two-character country code.

page - Integer - optional - Page number of leaderboard. If authenticated, defaults to the page containing the currently authenticated user.

Example Response

Response Code: 200

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Machine Names

GET /api/v1/users/:user/machine_names

GET /api/v1/users/current/machine_names

Description

List of machines for this user.

Scope Required

read_stats.machines

Example Response

Response Code: 200

Meta

GET /api/v1/meta

Description

Information about WakaTime, such as a list of public ip addresses used by WakaTime servers.

Example Response

Response Code: 200

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Org Dashboard Member Durations

GET /api/v1/users/:user/orgs/:org/dashboards/:dashboard/members/:member/durations

GET /api/v1/users/current/orgs/:orgs/dashboards/:dashboard/members/:member/durations

Description

A dashboard member's coding activity for the given day as an array of durations.

URL Parameters

date - Date - required - Date in YYYY-MM-DD format.

project - String - optional - Only show durations for this project.

branches - String - optional - Only show durations for these branches; comma separated list of branch names.

Scope Required

read_orgs

Example Response

Response Code: 200

Org Dashboard Member Summaries

GET /api/v1/users/:user/orgs/:org/dashboards/:dashboard/members/:member/summaries

GET /api/v1/users/current/orgs/:org/dashboards/:dashboard/members/:member/summaries

Description

An organization dashboard member’s coding activity for the given time range as an array of summaries segmented by day.

URL Parameters

start - Date - required - Start date of the time range.

end - Date - required - End date of the time range.

project - String - optional - Only show time logged to this project.

branches - String - optional - Only show coding activity for these branches; comma separated list of branch names.

range - String - optional - Alternative way to supply start and end dates. Can be one of “Today”, “Yesterday”, “Last 7 Days”, “Last 7 Days from Yesterday”, “Last 14 Days”, “Last 30 Days”, “This Week”, “Last Week”, “This Month”, or “Last Month”.

Scope Required

read_orgs

Example Response

Response Code: 200

Org Dashboard Members

GET /api/v1/users/:user/orgs/:org/dashboards/:dashboard/members

GET /api/v1/users/current/orgs/:org/dashboards/:dashboard/members

Description

List an organization’s members.

Scope Required

read_orgs

Example Response

Response Code: 200

Org Dashboards

GET /api/v1/users/:user/orgs/:org/dashboards

GET /api/v1/users/current/orgs/:org/dashboards

Description

List the organization’s dashboards.

Scope Required

read_orgs

Example Response

Response Code: 200

Orgs

GET /api/v1/users/:user/orgs

GET /api/v1/users/current/orgs

Description

List a user’s organizations.

Scope Required

read_orgs

Example Response

Response Code: 200

Private Leaderboards

GET /api/v1/users/:user/leaderboards

GET /api/v1/users/current/leaderboards

Description

List user’s private leaderboards. Same as this page.

Scope Required

read_private_leaderboards

Example Response

Response Code: 200

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Private Leaderboards Leaders

GET /api/v1/users/:user/leaderboards/:board

GET /api/v1/users/current/leaderboards/:board

Description

List of users in this private leaderboard ranked by coding activity in descending order.

URL Parameters

language - String - optional - Filter leaders by a specific language.

country_code - String - optional - Filter leaders by two-character country code.

page - Integer - optional - Page number of leaderboard. If authenticated, defaults to the page containing the currently authenticated user.

Scope Required

read_private_leaderboards

Example Response

Response Code: 200

Program Languages

GET /api/v1/program_languages

Description

List of all verified program languages supported by WakaTime.

Example Response

Response Code: 200

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Projects

GET /api/v1/users/:user/projects

GET /api/v1/users/current/projects

Description

List of WakaTime projects for the current user.

URL Parameters

q - String - optional - Filter project names by a search term.

Scope Required

read_stats.projects

Example Response

Response Code: 200

Stats

GET /api/v1/users/:user/stats

GET /api/v1/users/current/stats

GET /api/v1/users/:user/stats/:range

GET /api/v1/users/current/stats/:range

Description

A user's coding activity for the given time range. Optional range can be a YYYY year, YYYY-MM month, or one of last_7_days, last_30_days, last_6_months, last_year, or all_time. When range isn’t present, the user’s public profile range is used. For accounts subscribed to the free plan, time ranges >= one year are updated on the first request. It’s best to always check is_up_to_date and retry your request when the response is stale. Stats are read-only representations of Heartbeats, Durations, and Summaries, created by joining multiple Heartbeats together when they’re within 15 minutes of each other. The 15 minutes default can be changed with your account’s Keystroke Timeout preference.

URL Parameters

timeout - Integer - optional - The keystroke timeout value used to calculate these stats. Defaults the the user's keystroke timeout value.

writes_only - Boolean - optional - The writes_only value used to calculate these stats. Defaults to the user's writes_only setting.

Scope Required

read_stats

Example Response

Response Code: 200

Stats Aggregated

GET /api/v1/stats/:range

Description

Aggregate stats of all WakaTime users over the given time range. range can be one of last_7_days or any year in the past since 2013 for ex: 2020. Aggregate stats are only available with the same preferences as public profiles (Default 15m keystroke timeout preference). Yearly aggregate stats are calculated each year on Jan 1st.

Example Response

Response Code: 200

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Status Bar

GET /api/v1/users/:user/status_bar/today

GET /api/v1/users/current/status_bar/today

Description

A user’s coding activity today for displaying in IDE text editor status bars. This is the same as Summaries with range of “Today”. This endpoint is only backed by cached data. If there’s no data yet in the cache, an empty Summary is returned while the cache updates in the background:
{ "data": { "grand_total": { "decimal":"", "digital":"", "hours":0, "minutes":0, "text":"", "total_seconds":0 }, "categories":[], "dependencies":[], "editors":[], "languages":[], "machines":[], "operating_systems":[], "projects":[], "range": { "text":"Today", "timezone":"UTC" } } }

Scope Required

read_summaries

Example Response

Response Code: 200

Summaries

GET /api/v1/users/:user/summaries

GET /api/v1/users/current/summaries

Description

A user's coding activity for the given time range as an array of summaries segmented by day. Summaries are read-only representations of Heartbeats and Durations, created by joining multiple Heartbeats together when they’re within 15 minutes of each other. The 15 minutes default can be changed with your account’s Keystroke Timeout preference.

URL Parameters

start - Date - required - Start date of the time range.

end - Date - required - End date of the time range.

project - String - optional - Only show time logged to this project.

branches - String - optional - Only show coding activity for these branches; comma separated list of branch names.

timeout - Integer - optional - The keystroke timeout preference used when joining heartbeats into durations. Defaults the the user's keystroke timeout value. See the FAQ for more info.

writes_only - Boolean - optional - The writes_only preference. Defaults to the user's writes_only setting.

timezone - String - optional - The timezone for given start and end dates. Defaults to the user's timezone.

range - String - optional - Alternative way to supply start and end dates. Can be one of “Today”, “Yesterday”, “Last 7 Days”, “Last 7 Days from Yesterday”, “Last 14 Days”, “Last 30 Days”, “This Week”, “Last Week”, “This Month”, or “Last Month”.

Scope Required

read_summaries

Example Response

Response Code: 200

User Agents

GET /api/v1/users/:user/user_agents

GET /api/v1/users/current/user_agents

Description

List of plugins which have sent data for this user.

Scope Required

read_stats.editors

Example Response

Response Code: 200

Users

GET /api/v1/users/:user

GET /api/v1/users/current

Description

A single user.

Scope Required

email

Example Response

Response Code: 200