sync-beeminder-tagged-time

Updates a Beeminder goal with hashtagged calendar entries.

Given a Beeminder goal counting minutes spent on a task, sync-beeminder-tagged-time can update it from Google Calendar (or any other web-accessible iCal calendar) events marked with a hashtagged with the goal name.

Deployment to AWS Lambda

Initial deployment

The initial deployment needs an goalname.env.json that looks like this:

{
    "GOOGLE_CALENDAR_URL": "SECRET",
    "BEEMINDER_USERNAME": "username",
    "BEEMINDER_GOAL": "goalname",
    "BEEMINDER_AUTH_TOKEN": "SECRET"
}

The GOOGLE_CALENDAR_URL is the secret iCal link that you can get from your Google Calendar's settings and sharing page. The BEEMINDER_AUTH_TOKEN can be got from Beeminder's API.

And then run:

npm run build && ./node_modules/.bin/claudia --profile claudia create \
  --region eu-west-1 \
  --handler lib/sync-btt-lambda.handler \
  --name sync-beeminder-time-tracking-goalname \
  --role sync-beeminder-time-tracking-role \
  --runtime nodejs12.x --timeout 60 \
  --set-env-from-json goalname.env.json \
  --config goalname.claudia.json

The role and name can be named however you like. You'll also want to adjust the region appropriately.

Redeploying after changes

npm run redeploy -- --config goalname.claudia.json

Running locally

Set up .env.json as described above and run:

npm run build
./sync-btt.js

License

This project is licensed under the terms of the MIT license.