Best way to pull data by Window Title or App Name? #151

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1. ErikBjare commented on Dec 6, 2017

   

   ErikBjare

   on Dec 6, 2017

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   Hi Yi,

   There's currently no way to do this as neatly as with selfspy, but @johan-bjareholt is currently working on making it easier with his query2 PRs that are likely to get merged in early next year.

   In the meantime, you can do this yourself with a little bit of Python by taking a look at transforms like filter_period_intersect and filter_keyvals.

   The ActivityWatch equivalent of selfstats -P Google-chrome --clock 00:00 --tactive would look something like this:

   from datetime import datetime
   
   from aw_core.transforms import filter_period_intersect, filter_keyvals 
   import aw_client
   
   client = aw_client.ActivityWatchClient()
   starttime = datetime.now().replace(hour=0, minute=0) 
   
   windowevents = client.get_events("your_window_bucket", starttime=starttime)
   chrome_events = filter_keyvals(windowevents, "app", "google-chrome") 
   
   afkevents = client.get_events("your_afk_events", starttime=starttime) 
   afkevents_filtered = filter_keyvals(afkevents, "status", "not-afk") 
   
   chrome_events_filtered = filter_period_intersect(windowevents, afkevents_filtered) 

   I'm unable to test the code right now, so it probably needs some modification to work.

   Happy to hear you're liking ActivityWatch! I hope you keep using it and give us feedback on things we could improve 🙂
2. qpskcn1 commented on Dec 6, 2017

   

   qpskcn1

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   HI Erik,

   Got you!
   It works like a charm as long as I change filter_keyvals(events, "key", "vals") tofilter_keyvals(events, "key", ["vals"]), since we should pass in a list instead of a str.

   Also, I guess I can just use full_chunk method to get total duration for each app or title.

   For the query2, I think it would be great to have a function checks for substring or let us using regex.

   Thanks!
3. ErikBjare commented on Dec 7, 2017

   

   ErikBjare

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   @qpskcn1 Awesome that you got it working!

   And yeah, we will definitely be adding regexes :)
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5. johan-bjareholt commented on Dec 7, 2017

   

   johan-bjareholt

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   Also, I guess I can just use full_chunk method to get total duration for each app or title.

   Just so you know, the full_chunk will later be replaced with another chunking method when the query2 PRs are merged. It will be replaced with a merge_events_by_keys function which works differently, so you will have to do it once for an app summary and once again for titles separately.
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   closed this as completedon Jan 30, 2018