Python Script to Interact with the Asana API

script.py

import requests
import csv
import sys

PAT_TOKEN = "<Your Token Here>"
BASE_URL = 'https://app.asana.com/api/1.0'
USERS_ENDPOINT = '/users/me'
TASKS_ENDPOINT = '/tasks'


# A function to retrieve the default workspace and user IDs to use when creating and fetching tasks
# In a real-world scenario, you'd fetch all available workspace and user IDs and use them to filter/create new tasks
def getIds():
    result = requests.get(
        BASE_URL + USERS_ENDPOINT,
        headers={
            'Content-Type': 'application/json',
            'Accept': 'application/json',
            'Authorization': 'Bearer {}'.format(PAT_TOKEN) # Adding the PAT token for authentication
        }
    )

    data = result.json()

    workspaceId = data["data"]["workspaces"][0]["gid"]
    assigneeId = data["data"]["gid"]

    return workspaceId, assigneeId


# A function to create new tasks in Asana from data stored in an input.csv file
def createTasks():

    workspaceId, assigneeId = getIds()

    with open('./input.csv', 'r') as file:
        reader = csv.reader(file)
        for row in reader:
            data = {
                "data": {
                    "name": row[0].strip(), # Fetch from input file and strip any extra whitespaces from the text
                    "notes": row[1].strip(),
                    "due_on": row[2].strip(),
                    "workspace": workspaceId, # Add the default workspace ID
                    "assignee": assigneeId # Assign the task to the current user
                }
            }

            result = requests.post(
                BASE_URL + TASKS_ENDPOINT,
                headers={
                    'Content-Type': 'application/json',
                    'Accept': 'application/json',
                    'Authorization': 'Bearer {}'.format(PAT_TOKEN) # Adding the PAT token for authentication
                },
                json=data
            )

            print(result.json())


# A function to fetch all tasks under the default workspace assigned to the current user
def getAllTasks():

    workspaceId, assigneeId = getIds()

    result = requests.get(
        BASE_URL + TASKS_ENDPOINT +
        '?workspace={}&assignee={}'.format(workspaceId, assigneeId),
        headers={
            'Content-Type': 'application/json',
            'Accept': 'application/json',
            'Authorization': 'Bearer {}'.format(PAT_TOKEN) # Adding the PAT token for authentication
        }
    )
    data = result.json()["data"]

    print("Total number of tasks", len(data))
    print("Tasks ->")
    print(data)


if (len(sys.argv) > 1 and sys.argv[1] == 'FETCH'):
    getAllTasks()
elif (len(sys.argv) > 1 and sys.argv[1] == 'CREATE'):
    createTasks()

# To invoke the functions, run either `python3 script.py FETCH` or `python3 script.py CREATE` on the command line.