Can't export long time ranges

[woojoo666]

so Toggl time already allows export to CSV from the "Reports" tab, but they only allow exports for time ranges up to year. I thought this tool would help me get around that, but long time ranges give a 400 bad request error, so I'm guessing the API has the same restrictions. You should specify this in the README. However,, alternatively I feel like you could manually do multiple requests and stitch together the exported CSVs into one large CSV.

[andreaskoch]

togglcsv does split the time range into smaller chunk, issues one request against the Toggl API for each chunk and then stiches the results together.

I've just re-tested it with my personal account and I can fetch the records from last year until today:

togglcsv export 5xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxf 2017-01-01

I chose to make the chunks the size of one month:

https://github.com/andreaskoch/togglcsv/blob/master/toggl/timereange.go#L25

Maybe that chunk size is too big for your account? The Limit is 1000 entries per request (see: https://github.com/toggl/toggl_api_docs/blob/master/chapters/time_entries.md#get-time-entries-started-in-a-specific-time-range). But that would not explain the 400 Bad Request response. 🤔

[woojoo666]

hmm, weird, I tried it again and it worked. Seems kind of inconsistent actually, and the longer I make the date range, the more likely it will fail. Probably the Toggl API servers acting up or something

[andreaskoch]

I configured the API to do only only 1 request per second: https://github.com/andreaskoch/togglcsv/blob/e4fda9b7415c9029e98475496757e1771ffc4db2/vendor/github.com/andreaskoch/togglapi/api.go#L26

They recommend 1 second (see: https://github.com/toggl/toggl_api_docs#the-api-format) But maybe that's not enough if you are performing a lot of requests. But if that were the case they should return a HTTP 429 response.

But nevertheless, I can increase the wait time a bit ... or make it configurable if you like. And then you can try again.