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MyTime - Records a Log of My Active Window And Mouse Coordinates
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The MIT License (MIT) | |
Copyright (c) 2016 Josh Freckleton | |
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MyTime - Active Window Logger | |
Purpose: Records my active window to a log continually forever | |
so I can big-data myself, and track how I spend my | |
time. Also records mouse X,Y so I can tell if I've | |
stepped away for a bit. | |
Note: There are a lot of security/privacy implications of this | |
code. | |
Also existential quandries if you find you're a crappy time | |
manager | |
Note: I use on: Python 2.7 | |
Ubuntu | |
Probably will need some customization to get it to work on | |
other machines (ex: the `os` and `Xlib` libraries) | |
Note: I added the following alias to my `.bashrc` for convenience | |
alias mytime="cd ~/mytime; python2 mytime.py" | |
""" | |
import os | |
import datetime | |
from time import sleep | |
import sys | |
from Xlib import display | |
print("This will record your active window to a destination file") | |
print("and will stop if you enter:") | |
print("Ctrl + c") | |
dest = "mytime.csv" # destination file | |
freq = 10 # in seconds | |
def cleanUpStr(s): | |
"""removes superfluous starting text and carriage return, | |
may only apply to my computer's set up""" | |
return s[29:-2] | |
d = display.Display() | |
def whachaUpTo(): | |
"runs an os command, probably linux-only, to find what window is focused" | |
return cleanUpStr(os.popen("xprop -id $(xprop -root 32x '\t$0' _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW | cut -f 2) _NET_WM_NAME").read()) | |
# I couldn't quickly get the following to work reliably, | |
# may be a better solution, but I already had a good'n. | |
# | |
# window = d.get_input_focus().focus | |
# wmname = window.get_wm_name() | |
# wmclass = window.get_wm_class() | |
# if wmclass is None and wmname is None: | |
# window = window.query_tree().parent | |
# wmname = window.get_wm_name() | |
# return wmname | |
mouse = d.screen().root | |
def wheresDaMouse(): | |
"gets the mouse's coordinates" | |
a = mouse.query_pointer()._data | |
return [a["root_x"], a["root_y"]] | |
def now(): | |
"return the datetime now, as string" | |
return datetime.datetime.now().isoformat() | |
while True: | |
try: | |
x = now() | |
y = whachaUpTo() | |
z = wheresDaMouse() | |
with open(dest, "a") as f: | |
f.write('"{}", "{}", "{}", "{}"\n'.format(x, y, z[0], z[1])) | |
print(x, y, z) | |
sleep(freq) | |
except KeyboardInterrupt: | |
print("\nGood Bye, your progress was saved to:\n") | |
print(dest) | |
sys.exit() |
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