RescueTime Resource API Documentation

Comprehensive documentation for the RescueTime RESTful API. Build integrations, automate workflows, and access your RescueTime data programmatically.

Getting Started

The RescueTime Resource API provides RESTful endpoints for managing your time tracking data, focus sessions, projects, goals, and more. All API requests require authentication via API key.

Base URL: https://www.rescuetime.com/api/resource

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Data API and Key Management

Looking for the Analytic Data API for logged activity history, time data pivots, and other rollups, statuses, and automations? Visit the Analytic API Documentation.

Need to manage your API keys? Go to API Key Management.

API Resources

Browse the documentation by resource category below:

Users, Accounts & Organizations

Profile and account settings, user-level preferences, and organization, team, and managed-user lookups.

Time Tracking

Offline time entries (extra work, meetings, focus work), the timesheets timeline, and pre-rolled daily user summaries.

Focus Sessions

Start, extend, and stop focus sessions and zones; read and annotate the underlying session records.

Projects & Tasks

Projects, tasks, clients, project-time entries (create, merge, split), and timesheet finalization.

Calendar

Read-only access to calendar events synced from connected providers, including a meetings-only view.

Taxonomies & Categories

Reference data for the classification system: categories, overviews, productivities, device types, and the user\'s overview tree.

Alerts & Goals

Configure threshold-based alerts and directional goals, and the schedules that gate when they apply.

Notifications

List, mark read or dismissed, count, and create web notifications with structured content payloads.

Personalization

Per-account category and productivity-score overrides, plus structured personalization-flow responses.

Devices

List the user's active devices and register Live-Activity push tokens.

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