#+TITLE: Wakatime layer

#+TAGS: layer|web service

[[file:img/wakatime.png]]

* Table of Contents                     :TOC_5_gh:noexport:
- [[#description][Description]]
  - [[#features][Features:]]
- [[#install][Install]]
  - [[#wakatime-program][Wakatime Program]]
  - [[#layer][Layer]]
  - [[#api-keys][API Keys]]
    - [[#note-to-venv-workon-users][Note to =venv-workon= users:]]

* Description
This layer adds support for Wakatime.

WakaTime was built to solve time tracking for programmers.
Since we work inside a text editor, why should we have to start and stop a
timer? WakaTime uses open-source text editor plugins to automatically track the
time you spend programming so you never have to manually track it again!

P.S. wakati means time in Swahili

** Features:
- Integration with Wakatime cloud based time tracking service

* Install
** Wakatime Program
You can follow wakatime installation instructions here
[[https://github.com/wakatime/wakatime-mode]].

In short it's just:

#+BEGIN_SRC sh
  pip install wakatime
#+END_SRC

And for some linux users

#+BEGIN_SRC sh
  sudo pip install wakatime
#+END_SRC

** Layer
To use this configuration layer, add it to your =~/.spacemacs=. You will need to
add =wakatime= to the existing =dotspacemacs-configuration-layers= list in this
file.

Example:

#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
  (setq-default dotspacemacs-configuration-layers
                '(
                  ;; ...
                  (wakatime :variables
                  wakatime-api-key  "your-api-key"
                  ;; use the actual wakatime path
                  wakatime-cli-path "/usr/bin/wakatime")
                  ;; ...
                 ))
#+END_SRC

** API Keys
After this go to your wakatime account and have your API key handy
[[https://wakatime.com/settings/account?apikey=true]].

Restart emacs and it will prompt you for the location of the wakatime installer
(just put in whatever =which wakatime= gives you in the terminal e.g.
=/usr/bin/wakatime= for example) and that's it.

*** Note to =venv-workon= users:
Right now wakatime uses =python= as python bin executable, so if you use
=venv-workon= because you have python projects which need to have a virtual
env., then wakatime, which is installed system-wide will have trouble locating
wakatime files, so it's best to define by yourself the python path where
wakatime can always find it's stuff, via this variable:

#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
  (setq wakatime-python-bin "/path/to/python")
#+END_SRC