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From: Matt Lundin <mdl@imapmail.org>
Subject: Re: Is there a way to get all agenda TODOs programmatically?
Date: Sat, 07 Oct 2017 11:54:13 -0500
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To: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>
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Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl> writes:

> On 2017-10-07, at 16:20, Matt Lundin <mdl@imapmail.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi Marcin,
>>
>> Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl> writes:
>>
>>> I'd like to get a list of all agenda TODOs, with titles and due dates.
>>> Is there something ready in Org/contrib/blogosphere to help me?
>>
>> This functionality is built into org-mode. The simplest way to get such
>> a list is to use the agenda (specifically M-x org-todo-list). To display
>> scheduling information you can customize the variable
>> org-agenda-prefix-format.
>
> I know (and use) that.  What I want is not /display/, but a /data
> structure/ containing that info.

Ah, I see! A lisp list, not a list on the screen.

>> Finally, if you want simply to gather the todo data programmatically for
>> further processing you can use the function org-map-entries.
>
> Thanks, that seems to be a good pointer.  I'll check it out.

I think something like this would generate a such a list:

(org-map-entries '(cons (nth 4 (org-heading-components))
                         (list (org-get-deadline-time nil)))
                  "/!TODO" 'agenda)

Each item in the list would look something like this:

("Test" (23000 24400))

You could then feed the list to whatever function you'd like.

Best,
Matt