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OSX Application time tracking in Python
#!/usr/bin/env python
"""
OSX ONLY!
Monitor OSX application usage from your shell
and at the end of the day see how much you don't
work ;)
Author: Glen Zangirolami
http://theglenbot.com
http://codrspace.com/glenbot
http://twitter.com/glenbot
Usage:
./monitor_apps.py
When your ready to calculate times just
control+c to kill the script and it will print
the output
"""
import time
import datetime
from AppKit import NSWorkspace
class Application(object):
def __init__(self, name):
self.name = name
self.start_time = None
self.end_time = None
self.total_time = 0
def timer_started(self):
if self.start_time:
return True
return False
def start_timer(self):
self.start_time = time.time()
def stop_timer(self):
self.end_time = time.time()
if self.start_time:
self.append_time()
def append_time(self):
elapse_seconds = self.end_time - self.start_time
self.total_time += elapse_seconds
self.start_time = None
self.end_time = None
def elapse_time(self):
return str(datetime.timedelta(seconds=self.total_time))
def __str__(self):
return self.name
class Applications(object):
def __init__(self):
self.registered_apps = {}
self.current_app = None
def is_current_app(self, app_name):
return app_name is self.current_app
def get_app(self, app_name):
self.current_app = app_name
if app_name in self.registered_apps:
return self.registered_apps[app_name]
return None
def register(self, app_name):
self.registered_apps[app_name] = Application(app_name)
return self.get_app(app_name)
def is_registered(self, app_name):
return app_name in self.registered_apps.keys()
def __iter__(self):
sorted_apps = sorted(
self.registered_apps.values(),
key=lambda a: a.total_time,
reverse=True
)
return iter(sorted_apps)
apps = Applications()
try:
while True:
active_application = NSWorkspace.sharedWorkspace().activeApplication()
if active_application:
app_name = active_application['NSApplicationName']
# stop the timer on app change
if not apps.is_current_app(app_name) and apps.current_app is not None:
apps.get_app(apps.current_app).stop_timer()
# check if the app doesn't exist yet
if not apps.is_registered(app_name):
app = apps.register(app_name)
else:
app = apps.get_app(app_name)
# start the timer
if not app.timer_started():
app.start_timer()
time.sleep(.2)
except KeyboardInterrupt:
longest_name = max([len(app.name) for app in apps] + [len('Application')]) + 2
print ''
print "%s | %s" % ('Application'.ljust(longest_name), 'Total Time')
print "-" * (longest_name + 18)
for app in apps:
print "%s | %s" % (
app.name.ljust(longest_name),
app.elapse_time(),
)
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