https://github.com/goerz/activity_logger

Scripts to log and analyze computer usage
https://github.com/goerz/activity_logger

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Scripts to log and analyze computer usage

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/goerz/activity_logger
• Owner: goerz
• Created: 2010-09-17T11:35:45.000Z (about 14 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2015-03-07T19:16:53.000Z (almost 10 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-08-08T00:43:04.086Z (4 months ago)
• Topics: mac, quantified-self
• Language: Perl
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• Size: 125 KB
• Stars: 11
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 1
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.markdown

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README

        
# activity_logger

[http://github.com/goerz/activity_logger](http://github.com/goerz/activity_logger)

Author: [Michael Goerz](http://michaelgoerz.net)

Collection of scripts to log and analyze computer usage on Mac OS X

`activity_logger.pl` runs in the background and monitors when the computer is

active or idle, and which program is in the foreground. It will store this data

in a log file.

Several scripts are provided to aid in the analysis of the logged data.

This code is licensed under the [GPL](http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html)

## Install ##

Store the `activity_logger.pl` script anywhere in your `$PATH`. Edit it to set

the user to monitor and the location where log files should be stored.

Run it in the background by setting a launch agent. For example put a file

`net.michaelgoerz.activity_logger.plist` in `~/Library/LaunchAgents` with the

following content (adapt to your home directory path):

    

    

    

    

    	KeepAlive

    	

    	Label

    	net.michaelgoerz.activity_logger

    	ProgramArguments

    	

    		/Users/goerz/bin/activity_logger.pl

    	

    

    

You can also do this with [Lingon](http://lingon.sourceforge.net/).

Note that that this software will only work on Mac OS X.

## Usage ##

### Activity Logger

Keep `activity_logger.pl` running in the background (see above).  Information

about the system activity will be stored in a (monthly) log file.  Each line in

the log file is a "switching event". There are three columns. The first column

is the time stamp in epoch second, the second column is an integer code ('1'

for 'computer is active', '0' for 'computer is idle', '-1' for 'computer is

off/sleeping or activity_logger.pl is not running'). The third column is the

name of the active application, in the case that the computer is active. Each

event entry marks the start of that event; an event ends with the start of the

following event.