Automatic reporting tool for Taskwarrior
Project description
Taskreport is a simple tool to generate HTML reports from your Taskwarrior task list and send them by email.
The list of features includes:
generating an html report containing the sections defined in the configuration file.
sending the report to one or more email addresses (using the SMTP credentials defined in the configuration file).
outputting the report to a local file.
customizing the generated html with a template (using the Jinja template engine).
Installation
You have several options to install Taskreport:
use pip install taskreport or easy_install taskreport to install directly from the Python Package Index.
use python setup.py install from the package archive
Note: You will need to install Jinja to be able to use the templating feature (this is optional).
Usage
Configuration
A sample configuration file is distributed with this package and should be located at share/config.sample. All the configuration options are commented. By default, taskreport tries to look at ~/.taskreport for the configuration file. You can specify another location by using the -c command-line option.
The configuration file contains:
a SMTP section for the SMTP credentials of the account to be used to send the report email
a MAIL section to define the email subject and recipient(s)
one section for each section to be included in the report: the section name in the configuration file will become the section title in the generated HTML. The section should only contain one filter option which should follow Taskwarrior’s filtering syntax: this option will be fed directly to Taskwarrior to generate the list of tasks to include in the report.
Command-line options
The available command line options and their meaning can be found by typing taskreport -h. Certain options can be defined both in the configuration file and on the command-line. For those options, the command-line has precedence over the configuration file.
Template
Using a template is optional: Taskreport has a basic default layout. If you wish to customize the layout, you can specify the location of a template file by using the -t option on the command line.
The template file will be rendered by the Jinja template engine and thus must comply to Jinja’s syntax. You should refer to Jinja’s official documentation for more details.
The template file will receive as an environment variable a section_list variable. This is a list of dictionaries, one for each section. A section’s dictionary contains two keys: title for the section title, and task_list which is a JSON object containing the output you would get by using Taskwarrior’s export command with this section’s filter rule.
A sample template file located at share/email_template.html should have been distributed with this package.
Bugs, comments
This tool, although simple, might contain bugs or might be missing important features. For bug reports or feature requests, feel free to contact us at <task.report.python@gmail.com>.
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