From: "Przemysław Kamiński" <pk@intrepidus.pl>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: official orgmode parser
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2020 17:24:13 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <badfdb54-3902-6f22-c4db-58d20f29a6ac@intrepidus.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878sd9mc9x.fsf@localhost>
On 9/17/20 3:18 AM, Ihor Radchenko wrote:
>> So basically this is what this thread is about. One needs a working
>> Emacs instance and work in "push" mode to export any Org data. This
>> requires dealing with temporary files, as described above, and some
>> ad-hoc formats to keep whatever data I need to pull from org.
>
>> "Pull" mode would be preferred. I could then, say, write a script in
>> Guile, execute 'emacs -batch' to export org data (I'm ok with that),
>> then parse the S-expressions to get what I need.
>
> My choice to use "push" mode is just for performance reasons. Nothing
> prevents you from writing a function called from emacs --batch that
> converts parsed org data into whatever format your Guile script prefers.
> That function may be either on Emacs side or on Guile side. Probably,
> Emacs has more capabilities when dealing with s-expressions though.
>
> You can even directly push the information from Emacs to API server.
> You may find https://github.com/tkf/emacs-request useful for this task.
>
> Finally, you may also consider clock tables to create clock summaries
> using existing org-mode functionality. The tables can be named and
> accessed using any programming language via babel.
>
> Best,
> Ihor
>
>
> Przemysław Kamiński <pk@intrepidus.pl> writes:
>
>> On 9/16/20 2:02 PM, Ihor Radchenko wrote:
>>>> However what Ihor presented is interesting. Do you use similar approach
>>>> with shellout and 'emacs -batch' to show currently running task or you
>>>> 'push' data from emacs to show it in the taskbar?
>>>
>>> I prefer to avoid querying emacs too often for performance reasons.
>>> Instead, I only update the clocking info when I clock in/out in emacs.
>>> Then, the clocked in time is dynamically updated by independent bash
>>> script.
>>>
>>> The scheme is the following:
>>> 1. org clock in/out in Emacs trigger writing clocking info into
>>> ~/.org-clock-in status file
>>> 2. bash script periodically monitors the file and calculates the clocked
>>> in time according to the contents and time from last modification
>>> 3. the script updates simple textbox widget using awesome-client
>>> 4. the script also warns me (notify-send) when the weighted clocked in
>>> time is negative (meaning that I should switch to some more
>>> productive activity)
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> Ihor
>>>
>>> Przemysław Kamiński <pk@intrepidus.pl> writes:
>>>
>>>> On 9/16/20 9:56 AM, Ihor Radchenko wrote:
>>>>>> Wow, another awesomewm user here; could you share your code?
>>>>>
>>>>> Are you interested in something particular about awesome WM integration?
>>>>>
>>>>> I am using simple textbox widgets to show currently clocked in task and
>>>>> weighted summary of clocked time. See the attachments.
>>>>>
>>>>> Best,
>>>>> Ihor
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl> writes:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 2020-09-15, at 11:17, Przemysław Kamiński <pk@intrepidus.pl> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> So, I keep clock times for work in org mode, this is very
>>>>>>> handy. However, my customers require that I use their service to
>>>>>>> provide the times. They do offer API. So basically I'm using elisp to
>>>>>>> parse org, make API calls, and at the same time generate CSV reports
>>>>>>> with a Python interop with org babel (because my elisp is just too bad
>>>>>>> to do that). If I had access to some org parser, I'd pick a language
>>>>>>> that would be more comfortable for me to get the job done. I guess it
>>>>>>> can all be done in elisp, however this is just a tool for me alone and
>>>>>>> I have limited time resources on hacking things for myself :)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I was in the exact same situation - I use Org-mode clocking, and we use
>>>>>> Toggl at our company, so I wrote a simple tool to fire API requests to
>>>>>> Toggl on clock start/cancel/end: https://github.com/mbork/org-toggl
>>>>>> It's a bit more than 200 lines of Elisp, so you might try to look into
>>>>>> it and adapt it to whatever tool your employer is using.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Another one is generating total hours report for day/week/month to put
>>>>>>> into my awesomewm toolbar. I ended up using orgstat
>>>>>>> https://github.com/volhovM/orgstat
>>>>>>> however the author is creating his own DSL in YAML and I guess things
>>>>>>> were much better off if it all stayed in some Scheme :)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Wow, another awesomewm user here; could you share your code?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Best,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> Marcin Borkowski
>>>>>> http://mbork.pl
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I don't have interesting code, just standard awesomevm setup. I run
>>>> periodic script to output data computed by orgstat and show it in the
>>>> taskbar (uses the shellout_widget).
>>>>
>>>> However what Ihor presented is interesting. Do you use similar approach
>>>> with shellout and 'emacs -batch' to show currently running task or you
>>>> 'push' data from emacs to show it in the taskbar?
>>>>
>>>> P.
>>
>>
>> So basically this is what this thread is about. One needs a working
>> Emacs instance and work in "push" mode to export any Org data. This
>> requires dealing with temporary files, as described above, and some
>> ad-hoc formats to keep whatever data I need to pull from org.
>>
>> "Pull" mode would be preferred. I could then, say, write a script in
>> Guile, execute 'emacs -batch' to export org data (I'm ok with that),
>> then parse the S-expressions to get what I need.
>>
>> P.
>
OK so this is what I got so far
https://gitlab.com/cgenie/org-parse
I stole the simple test.org file from ox-json test suite.
Guile seems to correctly parse that output. At least something to start
with :)
Any comments are welcome :)
Best,
Przemek
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-09-17 15:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-09-15 7:58 official orgmode parser Przemysław Kamiński
2020-09-15 8:44 ` Gerry Agbobada
2020-09-16 16:36 ` Matt Huszagh
2020-09-23 8:09 ` Bastien
2020-09-15 9:03 ` Tim Cross
2020-09-15 9:17 ` Przemysław Kamiński
2020-09-15 9:55 ` Russell Adams
2020-09-15 11:15 ` Przemysław Kamiński
2020-09-15 12:37 ` tomas
2020-09-15 18:09 ` Diego Zamboni
2020-09-16 12:09 ` Przemysław Kamiński
2020-09-16 12:20 ` tomas
2020-09-16 12:27 ` Ihor Radchenko
2020-09-16 0:16 ` Tim Cross
2020-09-16 7:24 ` Marcin Borkowski
2020-09-16 7:56 ` Ihor Radchenko
2020-09-16 11:36 ` Przemysław Kamiński
2020-09-16 12:02 ` Ihor Radchenko
2020-09-16 12:15 ` Przemysław Kamiński
2020-09-17 1:18 ` Ihor Radchenko
2020-09-17 15:24 ` Przemysław Kamiński [this message]
2020-09-23 8:09 ` Bastien
2020-09-23 17:46 ` Przemysław Kamiński
2020-09-23 19:50 ` rey-coyrehourcq
2020-11-11 8:58 ` Bastien
2020-10-24 21:12 ` Daniele Nicolodi
2020-10-24 21:35 ` Tom Gillespie
2020-11-11 9:13 ` Bastien
2020-11-12 17:14 ` Tom Gillespie
2020-11-11 9:15 ` Bastien
2020-11-11 13:05 ` Daniele Nicolodi
2020-11-28 19:19 ` Gerry Agbobada
2020-10-26 11:23 ` Ken Mankoff
2020-10-26 14:21 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2020-10-26 16:17 ` Ken Mankoff
2020-10-26 16:24 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2020-10-26 16:47 ` Ken Mankoff
2020-10-26 17:59 ` Tom Gillespie
2020-10-26 20:26 ` Ken Mankoff
2020-10-26 21:00 ` Tom Gillespie
2020-10-26 21:37 ` Ken Mankoff
2020-10-26 22:19 ` Tom Gillespie
2020-10-27 5:42 ` Przemysław Kamiński
2020-11-11 8:59 ` Bastien
2020-11-11 9:00 ` Bastien
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