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Installation instructions can be found below and in the Wiki.
- β Free and open-source
- β Built by developers for developers
- β Statistics for projects, languages, editors, hosts and operating systems
- β Badges
- β Weekly E-Mail reports
- β REST API
- β Partially compatible with WakaTime
- β WakaTime integration
- β Support for Prometheus exports
- β Lightning fast
- β Self-hosted
There are different options for how to use Wakapi, ranging from our hosted cloud service to self-hosting it. Regardless of which option choose, you will always have to do the client setup in addition.
βοΈ Option 1: Use wakapi.dev
If you want to try out a free, hosted cloud service, all you need to do is create an account and then set up your client-side tooling (see below).
$ curl -L https://wakapi.dev/get | bash
Alternatively using eget:
$ eget muety/wakapi
# Create a persistent volume
$ docker volume create wakapi-data
$ SALT="$(cat /dev/urandom | LC_ALL=C tr -dc 'a-zA-Z0-9' | fold -w ${1:-32} | head -n 1)"
# Run the container
$ docker run -d \
-p 3000:3000 \
-e "WAKAPI_PASSWORD_SALT=$SALT" \
-v wakapi-data:/data \
--name wakapi \
ghcr.io/muety/wakapi:latest
Alternatively, you can use Docker Compose (docker compose up -d
) for a more straightforward deployment.
See compose.yml for configuration details. If you prefer to
persist data in a local directory while using SQLite as the database, make sure to set the correct user
option in the
Docker Compose configuration to avoid permission issues.
Note: By default, SQLite is used as a database. To run Wakapi in Docker with MySQL or Postgres, see Dockerfile and config.default.yml for further options.
If you want to run Wakapi on Kubernetes, there is wakapi-helm-chart for quick and easy deployment.
# Build and install
# Alternatively: go build -o wakapi
$ go install github.com/muety/wakapi@latest
# Get default config and customize
$ curl -o wakapi.yml https://raw.githubusercontent.com/muety/wakapi/master/config.default.yml
$ vi wakapi.yml
# Run it
$ ./wakapi -config wakapi.yml
Note: Check the comments in config.yml
for best practices regarding security configuration and more.
π‘ When running Wakapi standalone (without Docker), it is recommended to run it as a SystemD service.
Wakapi relies on the open-source WakaTime client tools. In order to collect statistics for Wakapi, you need to set them up.
- Set up WakaTime for your specific IDE or editor. Please refer to the respective plugin guide
- Edit your local
~/.wakatime.cfg
file as follows.
[settings]
# Your Wakapi server URL or 'https://wakapi.dev/api' when using the cloud server
api_url = http://localhost:3000/api
# Your Wakapi API key (get it from the web interface after having created an account)
api_key = 406fe41f-6d69-4183-a4cc-121e0c524c2b
Optionally, you can set up a client-side proxy in addition.
You can specify configuration options either via a config file (default: config.yml
, customizable through the -c
argument) or via environment variables. Here is an overview of all options.
YAML key / Env. variable | Default | Description |
---|---|---|
env /ENVIRONMENT |
dev |
Whether to use development- or production settings |
app.leaderboard_enabled /WAKAPI_LEADERBOARD_ENABLED |
true |
Whether to enable the public leaderboard |
app.leaderboard_scope /WAKAPI_LEADERBOARD_SCOPE |
7_days |
Aggregation interval for public leaderboard (see here for allowed values) |
app.leaderboard_generation_time /WAKAPI_LEADERBOARD_GENERATION_TIME |
0 0 6 * * *,0 0 18 * * * |
One or multiple times of day at which to re-calculate the leaderboard |
app.aggregation_time /WAKAPI_AGGREGATION_TIME |
0 15 2 * * * |
Time of day at which to periodically run summary generation for all users |
app.report_time_weekly /WAKAPI_REPORT_TIME_WEEKLY |
0 0 18 * * 5 |
Week day and time at which to send e-mail reports |
app.data_cleanup_time /WAKAPI_DATA_CLEANUP_TIME |
0 0 6 * * 0 |
When to perform data cleanup operations (see app.data_retention_months ) |
app.import_enabled /WAKAPI_IMPORT_ENABLED |
true |
Whether data imports from WakaTime or other Wakapi instances are permitted |
app.import_batch_size /WAKAPI_IMPORT_BATCH_SIZE |
50 |
Size of batches of heartbeats to insert to the database during importing from external services |
app.import_backoff_min /WAKAPI_IMPORT_BACKOFF_MIN |
5 |
"Cooldown" period in minutes before user may attempt another data import |
app.import_max_rate /WAKAPI_IMPORT_MAX_RATE |
24 |
Minimum number of hours to wait after a successful data import before user may attempt another one |
app.inactive_days /WAKAPI_INACTIVE_DAYS |
7 |
Number of days after which to consider a user inactive (only for metrics) |
app.heartbeat_max_age / WAKAPI_HEARTBEAT_MAX_AGE |
4320h |
Maximum acceptable age of a heartbeat (see ParseDuration ) |
app.custom_languages |
- | Map from file endings to language names |
app.avatar_url_template /WAKAPI_AVATAR_URL_TEMPLATE |
(see config.default.yml ) |
URL template for external user avatar images (e.g. from Dicebear or Gravatar) |
app.date_format /WAKAPI_DATE_FORMAT |
Mon, 02 Jan 2006 |
Go time format strings to format human-readable date (see Time.Format ) |
app.datetime_format /WAKAPI_DATETIME_FORMAT |
Mon, 02 Jan 2006 15:04 |
Go time format strings to format human-readable datetime (see Time.Format ) |
app.support_contact /WAKAPI_SUPPORT_CONTACT |
hostmaster@wakapi.dev |
E-Mail address to display as a support contact on the page |
app.data_retention_months /WAKAPI_DATA_RETENTION_MONTHS |
-1 |
Maximum retention period in months for user data (heartbeats) (-1 for unlimited) |
app.max_inactive_months /WAKAPI_MAX_INACTIVE_MONTHS |
12 |
Maximum number of inactive months after which to delete user accounts without data (-1 for unlimited) |
server.port /WAKAPI_PORT |
3000 |
Port to listen on |
server.listen_ipv4 /WAKAPI_LISTEN_IPV4 |
127.0.0.1 |
IPv4 network address to listen on (set to '-' to disable IPv4) |
server.listen_ipv6 /WAKAPI_LISTEN_IPV6 |
::1 |
IPv6 network address to listen on (set to '-' to disable IPv6) |
server.listen_socket /WAKAPI_LISTEN_SOCKET |
- | UNIX socket to listen on (set to '-' to disable UNIX socket) |
server.listen_socket_mode /WAKAPI_LISTEN_SOCKET_MODE |
0666 |
Permission mode to create UNIX socket with |
server.timeout_sec /WAKAPI_TIMEOUT_SEC |
30 |
Request timeout in seconds |
server.tls_cert_path /WAKAPI_TLS_CERT_PATH |
- | Path of SSL server certificate (leave blank to not use HTTPS) |
server.tls_key_path /WAKAPI_TLS_KEY_PATH |
- | Path of SSL server private key (leave blank to not use HTTPS) |
server.base_path /WAKAPI_BASE_PATH |
/ |
Web base path (change when running behind a proxy under a sub-path) |
server.public_url /WAKAPI_PUBLIC_URL |
http://localhost:3000 |
URL at which your Wakapi instance can be found publicly |
security.password_salt /WAKAPI_PASSWORD_SALT |
- | Pepper to use for password hashing |
security.insecure_cookies /WAKAPI_INSECURE_COOKIES |
false |
Whether or not to allow cookies over HTTP |
security.cookie_max_age /WAKAPI_COOKIE_MAX_AGE |
172800 |
Lifetime of authentication cookies in seconds or 0 to use Session cookies |
security.allow_signup /WAKAPI_ALLOW_SIGNUP |
true |
Whether to enable user registration |
security.signup_captcha /WAKAPI_SIGNUP_CAPTCHA |
false |
Whether the registration form requires solving a CAPTCHA |
security.invite_codes /WAKAPI_INVITE_CODES |
true |
Whether to enable registration by invite codes. Primarily useful if registration is disabled (invite-only server). |
security.disable_frontpage /WAKAPI_DISABLE_FRONTPAGE |
false |
Whether to disable landing page (useful for personal instances) |
security.expose_metrics /WAKAPI_EXPOSE_METRICS |
false |
Whether to expose Prometheus metrics under /api/metrics |
security.trusted_header_auth /WAKAPI_TRUSTED_HEADER_AUTH |
false |
Whether to enable trusted header authentication for reverse proxies (see #534). Use with caution! |
security.trusted_header_auth_key /WAKAPI_TRUSTED_HEADER_AUTH_KEY |
Remote-User |
Header field for trusted header authentication. Caution: proxy must be configured to strip this header from client requests! |
security.trust_reverse_proxy_ips /WAKAPI_TRUST_REVERSE_PROXY_IPS |
- | Comma-separated list of IPv4 or IPv6 addresses or CIDRs of reverse proxies to trust to handle authentication (e.g. 172.17.0.1 , 192.168.0.0/24 , [::1] ). |
security.signup_max_rate /WAKAPI_SIGNUP_MAX_RATE |
5/1h |
Rate limiting config for signup endpoint in format <max_req>/<multiplier><unit> , where unit is one of s , m or h . |
security.login_max_rate /WAKAPI_LOGIN_MAX_RATE |
10/1m |
Rate limiting config for login endpoint in format <max_req>/<multiplier><unit> , where unit is one of s , m or h . |
security.password_reset_max_rate /WAKAPI_PASSWORD_RESET_MAX_RATE |
5/1h |
Rate limiting config for password reset endpoint in format <max_req>/<multiplier><unit> , where unit is one of s , m or h . |
db.host /WAKAPI_DB_HOST |
- | Database host |
db.port /WAKAPI_DB_PORT |
- | Database port |
db.socket /WAKAPI_DB_SOCKET |
- | Database UNIX socket (alternative to host ) (for MySQL only) |
db.user /WAKAPI_DB_USER |
- | Database user |
db.password /WAKAPI_DB_PASSWORD |
- | Database password |
db.name /WAKAPI_DB_NAME |
wakapi_db.db |
Database name |
db.dialect /WAKAPI_DB_TYPE |
sqlite3 |
Database type (one of sqlite3 , mysql , postgres , cockroach , mssql ) |
db.charset /WAKAPI_DB_CHARSET |
utf8mb4 |
Database connection charset (for MySQL only) |
db.max_conn /WAKAPI_DB_MAX_CONNECTIONS |
2 |
Maximum number of database connections |
db.ssl /WAKAPI_DB_SSL |
false |
Whether to use TLS encryption for database connection (Postgres and CockroachDB only) |
db.automgirate_fail_silently /WAKAPI_DB_AUTOMIGRATE_FAIL_SILENTLY |
false |
Whether to ignore schema auto-migration failures when starting up |
mail.enabled /WAKAPI_MAIL_ENABLED |
true |
Whether to allow Wakapi to send e-mail (e.g. for password resets) |
mail.sender /WAKAPI_MAIL_SENDER |
Wakapi <noreply@wakapi.dev> |
Default sender address for outgoing mails |
mail.provider /WAKAPI_MAIL_PROVIDER |
smtp |
Implementation to use for sending mails (one of [smtp ]) |
mail.smtp.host /WAKAPI_MAIL_SMTP_HOST |
- | SMTP server address for sending mail (if using smtp mail provider) |
mail.smtp.port /WAKAPI_MAIL_SMTP_PORT |
- | SMTP server port (usually 465) |
mail.smtp.username /WAKAPI_MAIL_SMTP_USER |
- | SMTP server authentication username |
mail.smtp.password /WAKAPI_MAIL_SMTP_PASS |
- | SMTP server authentication password |
mail.smtp.tls /WAKAPI_MAIL_SMTP_TLS |
false |
Whether the SMTP server requires TLS encryption (false for STARTTLS or no encryption) |
mail.smtp.skip_verify /WAKAPI_MAIL_SMTP_SKIP_VERIFY |
false |
Whether to allow invalid or self-signed certificates for TLS-encrypted SMTP |
sentry.dsn /WAKAPI_SENTRY_DSN |
β | DSN for to integrate Sentry for error logging and tracing (leave empty to disable) |
sentry.environment /WAKAPI_SENTRY_ENVIRONMENT |
(env ) |
Sentry environment tag (defaults to env / ENV ) |
sentry.enable_tracing /WAKAPI_SENTRY_TRACING |
false |
Whether to enable Sentry request tracing |
sentry.sample_rate /WAKAPI_SENTRY_SAMPLE_RATE |
0.75 |
Probability of tracing a request in Sentry |
sentry.sample_rate_heartbeats /WAKAPI_SENTRY_SAMPLE_RATE_HEARTBEATS |
0.1 |
Probability of tracing a heartbeat request in Sentry |
quick_start /WAKAPI_QUICK_START |
false |
Whether to skip initial boot tasks. Use only for development purposes! |
enable_pprof /WAKAPI_ENABLE_PPROF |
false |
Whether to expose pprof profiling data as an endpoint for debugging |
Wakapi uses GORM as an ORM. As a consequence, a set of different relational databases is supported.
- SQLite (default, easy setup)
- MySQL (recommended, because most extensively tested)
- MariaDB (open-source MySQL alternative)
- Postgres (open-source as well)
- CockroachDB (cloud-native, distributed, Postgres-compatible API)
- Microsoft SQL Server (Microsoft SQL Server)
Wakapi supports different types of user authentication.
- Cookie: This method is used in the browser. Users authenticate by sending along an encrypted, secure, HTTP-only
cookie (
wakapi_auth
) that was set in the server's response upon login. - API key:
- Via header: This method is inspired
by WakaTime's auth. mechanism and is the common way to
authenticate against API endpoints. Users set the
Authorization
header toBasic <BASE64_TOKEN>
, where the latter part corresponds to your base64-hashed API key. - Vis query param: Alternatively, users can also pass their plain API key as a query parameter (
e.g.
?api_key=86648d74-19c5-452b-ba01-fb3ec70d4c2f
) in the URL with every request.
- Via header: This method is inspired
by WakaTime's auth. mechanism and is the common way to
authenticate against API endpoints. Users set the
- Trusted header: This mechanism allows to delegate authentication to a reverse proxy (e.g. for SSO), that
Wakapi will then trust blindly. See #534 for details.
- Must be enabled via
trusted_header_auth
and configuringtrust_reverse_proxy_ip
in the config - Warning: This type of authentication is quite prone to misconfiguration. Make sure that your reverse proxy properly strips relevant headers from client requests.
- Must be enabled via
See our Swagger API Documentation.
$ go install github.com/swaggo/swag/cmd/swag@latest
$ swag init -o static/docs
You can export your Wakapi statistics to Prometheus to view them in a Grafana dashboard or so. Here is how.
# 1. Start Wakapi with the feature enabled
$ export WAKAPI_EXPOSE_METRICS=true
$ ./wakapi
# 2. Get your API key and hash it
$ echo "<YOUR_API_KEY>" | base64
# 3. Add a Prometheus scrape config to your prometheus.yml (see below)
# prometheus.yml
# (assuming your Wakapi instance listens at localhost, port 3000)
scrape_configs:
- job_name: 'wakapi'
scrape_interval: 1m
metrics_path: '/api/metrics'
bearer_token: '<YOUR_BASE64_HASHED_TOKEN>'
static_configs:
- targets: [ 'localhost:3000' ]
There is also a nice Grafana dashboard, provided by the author of wakatime_exporter.
Wakapi plays well together with WakaTime. For one thing, you can forward heartbeats from Wakapi to WakaTime to effectively use both services simultaneously. In addition, there is the option to import historic data from WakaTime for consistency between both services. Both features can be enabled in the Integrations section of your Wakapi instance's settings page.
Wakapi also integrates with GitHub Readme Stats to generate fancy cards for you. Here is an example. To use this, don't forget to enable public data under Settings -> Permissions.
Click to view code
![](https://github-readme-stats.vercel.app/api/wakatime?username={yourusername}&api_domain=wakapi.dev&bg_color=2D3748&title_color=2F855A&icon_color=2F855A&text_color=ffffff&custom_title=Wakapi%20Week%20Stats&layout=compact)
There is a WakaTime plugin for GitHub Metrics that is also compatible with Wakapi. To use this, don't forget to enable public data under Settings -> Permissions.
Preview:
Click to view code
- uses: lowlighter/metrics@latest
with:
# ... other options
plugin_wakatime: yes
plugin_wakatime_token: ${{ secrets.WAKATIME_TOKEN }} # Required
plugin_wakatime_days: 7 # Display last week stats
plugin_wakatime_sections: time, projects, projects-graphs # Display time and projects sections, along with projects graphs
plugin_wakatime_limit: 4 # Show 4 entries per graph
plugin_wakatime_url: http://wakapi.dev # Wakatime url endpoint
plugin_wakatime_user: .user.login # User
The browser-wakatime plugin enables you to track your web surfing in WakaTime (and Wakapi, of course). Visited websites will appear as "files" in the summary. Follow these instructions to get started:
- Install the browser extension from the official store (Firefox, Chrome)
- Open the extension settings dialog
- Configure it like so (see screenshot below):
- API Key: Your personal API key (get it at wakapi.dev)
- Logging Type: Only the domain
- API URL:
https://wakapi.dev/api/compat/wakatime/v1
(alternatively, replace wakapi.dev with your self-hosted instance hostname)
- Save
- Start browsing!
Note: the plugin will only sync heartbeats once in a while, so it might take some time for them to appear on Wakapi. To "force" it to sync, simply bring up the plugin main dialog.
If you're using the GNOME desktop, there is a quick way to display your today's coding statistics in the status bar.
Simply install the Executor extension and add the following command as a status bar indicator:
~/.wakatime/wakatime-cli-linux-amd64 --today
You can export your coding activity from Wakapi to CSV in the form of raw heartbeats. While there is no way to accomplish this directly through the web UI, we provide an easy-to-use Python script instead.
$ pip install requests tqdm
$ python scripts/download_heartbeats.py --api_key API_KEY [--url URL] [--from FROM] [--to TO] [--output OUTPUT]
Example
python scripts/download_heartbeats.py --api_key 04648d14-15c9-432b-b901-dbeec70d4eaf \
--url https://wakapi.dev/api \
--from 2023-01-01 \
--to 2023-01-31 \
--output wakapi_export.csv
It is recommended to use wakapi behind a reverse proxy, like Caddy or nginx, to enable TLS encryption (HTTPS).
However, if you want to expose your wakapi instance to the public anyway, you need to set server.listen_ipv4
to 0.0.0.0
in config.yml
.
Unit tests are supposed to test business logic on a fine-grained level. They are implemented as part of the application, using Go's testing package alongside stretchr/testify.
$ CGO_ENABLED=0 go test `go list ./... | grep -v 'github.com/muety/wakapi/scripts'` -json -coverprofile=coverage/coverage.out ./... -run ./...
API tests are implemented as black box tests, which interact with a fully-fledged, standalone Wakapi through HTTP requests. They are supposed to check Wakapi's web stack and endpoints, including response codes, headers and data on a syntactical level, rather than checking the actual content that is returned.
Our API (or end-to-end, in some way) tests are implemented as a Postman collection and can be run either from inside Postman, or using newman as a command-line runner.
To get a predictable environment, tests are run against a fresh and clean Wakapi instance with a SQLite database that is populated with nothing but some seed data (see data.sql). It is usually recommended for software tests to be safe, stateless and without side effects. In contrary to that paradigm, our API tests strictly require a fixed execution order (which Postman assures) and their assertions may rely on specific previous tests having succeeded.
# 1. sqlite (cli)
$ sudo apt install sqlite # Fedora: sudo dnf install sqlite
# 2. newman
$ npm install -g newman
$ ./testing/run_api_tests.sh
To keep things minimal, all JS and CSS assets are included as static files and checked in to Git. TailwindCSS and Iconify require an additional build step. To only require this at the time of development, the compiled assets are checked in to Git as well.
$ yarn
$ yarn build # or: yarn watch
New icons can be added by editing the icons
array in scripts/bundle_icons.js.
As explained in #284, precompressed (using Brotli) versions of some of the
assets are delivered to save additional bandwidth. This was inspired by
Caddy's precompressed
directive.
gzipped.FileServer
checks for every static file's .br
or .gz
equivalents and, if present, delivers those instead of the actual file,
alongside Content-Encoding: br
. Currently, compressed assets are simply checked in to Git. Later we might want to have
this be part of a new build step.
To pre-compress files, run this:
# Install brotli first
$ sudo apt install brotli # or: sudo dnf install brotli
# Watch, build and compress
$ yarn watch:compress
# Alternatively: build and compress only
$ yarn build:all:compress
# Alternatively: compress only
$ yarn compress
Since Wakapi heavily relies on the concepts provided by WakaTime, their FAQs largely apply to Wakapi as well. You might find answers there.
What data are sent to Wakapi?
- File names
- Project names
- Editor names
- Your computer's host name
- Timestamps for every action you take in your editor
- ...
See the related WakaTime FAQ section for details.
If you host Wakapi yourself, you have control over all your data. However, if you use our webservice and are concerned about privacy, you can also exclude or obfuscate certain file- or project names.
What happens if I'm offline?
All data are cached locally on your machine and sent in batches once you're online again.
How did Wakapi come about?
Wakapi was started when I was a student, who wanted to track detailed statistics about my coding time. Although I'm a big fan of WakaTime I didn't want to pay $9 a month back then. Luckily, most parts of WakaTime are open source!
How does Wakapi compare to WakaTime?
Wakapi is a small subset of WakaTime and has a lot less features. Cool WakaTime features, that are missing Wakapi, include:
- Leaderboards
- Embeddable Charts
- Personal Goals
- Team- / Organization Support
- Additional Integrations (with GitLab, etc.)
- Richer API
WakaTime is worth the price. However, if you only need basic statistics and like to keep sovereignty over your data, you might want to go with Wakapi.
How are durations calculated?
Inferring a measure for your coding time from heartbeats works a bit differently than in WakaTime. While WakaTime has timeout intervals, Wakapi essentially just pads every heartbeat that occurs after a longer pause with 2 extra minutes.
Here is an example (circles are heartbeats):
|---o---o--------------o---o---|
| |10s| 3m |10s| |
It is unclear how to handle the three minutes in between. Did the developer do a 3-minute break, or were just no heartbeats being sent, e.g. because the developer was staring at the screen trying to find a solution, but not actually typing code?
- WakaTime (with 5 min timeout): 3 min 20 sec
- WakaTime (with 2 min timeout): 20 sec
- Wakapi: 10 sec + 2 min + 10 sec = 2 min 20 sec
Wakapi adds a "padding" of two minutes before the third heartbeat. This is why total times will slightly vary between Wakapi and WakaTime.
- π» [Code] Image generator from Wakapi
stats β LacazeThomas/wakapi-stats (
Go
) - π» [Code] Discord integration for
Wakapi - LLoneDev6/Wakapi-Discord (
JavaScript
) - π» [Code] Alternative heartbeats export
script - wakapiexporter.nim (
Nim
) - π» [Code] Wakapi Helm chart for K8s
deployments - andreymaznyak/wakapi-helm-chart (
YAML
) - π [Article] Wakamonth: hours reporting tool
Coding in open source is my passion and I would love to do it on a full-time basis and make a living from it one day. So if you like this project, please consider supporting it π. You can donate either through buying me a coffee or becoming a GitHub sponsor. Every little donation is highly appreciated and boosts my motivation to keep improving Wakapi!
I highly appreciate the efforts of @alanhamlett and the WakaTime team and am thankful for their software being open source.
Moreover, thanks to server.camp for sponsoring server infrastructure for Wakapi.dev.
MIT @ Ferdinand MΓΌtsch