Clockify Export

Export your Clockify time entries to CSV files, even on the Free plan.

In April/May 2026, Clockify restricted the Free plan: CSV/Excel exports and reports longer than 31 days now require a paid plan. The API itself, however, is still available on the Free plan (30 requests/hour/workspace).

This tool uses the time entries API (not the reports API), so it is not subject to the 31-day reporting window. It paginates through all your entries and writes one CSV per calendar month.

Features

• ✅ Multi-workspace — exports all your workspaces (or select with -w)
• ✅ Incremental — remembers what was exported and only fetches new entries
• ✅ Monthly CSVs — one file per calendar month, current month gets re-exported/overwritten
• ✅ Per-workspace stat — state is tracked in ~/.config/clockify-export/state.json
• ✅ Zero dependencies — stdlib only (urllib, csv, json), Python ≥ 3.11
• ✅ Config file — API key + export path in ~/.config/clockify-export/config.toml

Installation

Requires uv (or any Python 3.11+ + pip).

Global install (recommended, adds clockify-export to your PATH)

uv tool install clockify-export      # from PyPI
# or from a local checkout:
uv tool install .

Updates: uv tool upgrade clockify-export.

Development (from a checkout)

uv sync

Setup

1. API key

Generate an API key in Clockify: Profile → Preferences → API → Manage API Keys → Generate.

Provide it via one of (highest priority first):

# a) Config file (recommended)
clockify-export --init-config
# then edit ~/.config/clockify-export/config.toml:
#
#   # Clockify export configuration
#   api_key = "YOUR_KEY"
#   export_dir = "export"

# b) Environment variable
export CLOCKIFY_API_KEY=YOUR_KEY

# c) .env file in the project directory
echo "CLOCKIFY_API_KEY=YOUR_KEY" > .env

# d) Command line flag
clockify-export --api-key YOUR_KEY

Note: TOML is parsed with Python's stdlib tomllib — no extra dependency.

2. Export directory

Defaults to ./export. Override via config file or -o flag:

clockify-export -o /data/clockify

Usage

# Full export of all workspaces (everything since the beginning)
clockify-export --full

# Incremental export (default — only fetches entries after last run)
clockify-export

# Export only specific workspace(s)
clockify-export -w "Peter's workspace"

# Export since a specific date (ignores incremental state)
clockify-export --from 2026-01-01

# Show export state
clockify-export --status

Output structure

export/
└── <workspace name>/
    └── <year>/
        └── <workspace name>_<year>-<month>.csv

Each filename carries the workspace and year, so files stay identifiable even if you copy or move them out of the directory tree:

export/etalytics workspace/2026/etalytics workspace_2026-09.csv

CSV columns

How incremental export works

The tool stores the last exported date per workspace in ~/.config/clockify-export/state.json:

{
  "5e9d613a265d3c117c6f3aeb": {
    "last_exported": "2026-09-30T00:00:00+00:00",
    "updated_at": "2026-09-10T10:20:38.530213+00:00"
  }
}

On the next run, entries are fetched starting the day after last_exported. Monthly CSVs are overwritten entirely, so a partially written current month is always consistent.

Free plan considerations

• Rate limit: 30 API requests/hour/workspace on Free plan. Each page of 200 entries = 1 request. A full export of thousands of entries can exhaust the quota — that's why --from and --full exist, and why the tool fetches tasks only for projects that actually have entries.
• If you hit the rate limit (HTTP 429), wait an hour and run again — the incremental state means you won't re-fetch everything.

Related projects

• Clockify API docs
• damirarh/ClockifyExport — C# tool using shared reports (paid-only on Free plan now)
• apet97/clockify-ts-sdk — community TypeScript SDK/CLI

License

MIT

Schedule Daily Export via systemd

Use can use systemd timers to call the export regularily.

Install with mise

mise can install the systemd unit automatically:

mise install-systemd

This copies the service/timer files to ~/.config/systemd/user/ and enables the timer.

Systemd Timer (daily export)

To run the export automatically every day as a systemd user unit:

1. Install the service and timer

cp systemd/clockify-export.service "$HOME/.config/systemd/user/"
cp systemd/clockify-export.timer "$HOME/.config/systemd/user/"
systemctl --user daemon-reload
systemctl --user enable --now clockify-export.timer

2. Set your API key

The unit reads the Clockify API key from the config file. You can create one via clockify-export --init-config and ensure the api_key is set in ~/.config/clockify-export/config.toml.

3. Manage the timer

The default timer is for daily export. Feel free to adjust OnUnitActiveSec if desired.

# View status
systemctl --user status clockify-export.timer
systemctl --user status clockify-export.service

# Manual run
systemctl --user clockify-export

# Disable
systemctl --user disable --now clockify-export.timer

Note: The service uses Type=oneshot so it completes and exits each day. Logs can be viewed with journalctl --user -u clockify-export.service.