todoist-export-completed

Export all your completed Todoist tasks into a JSON file. Using Todoist's v9 API. The program will run until the API does not return any new completed tasks. Meant to run on MacOS or Linux.

Note: The amount of tasks you can export may be limited by your Todoist plan.

Examples

Running the script

Output (after jq)

Dependencies

Python

requests

On MacOS/Ubuntu - pip3 install requests

To Run

1. Find your Todoist API key
2. Enter your API key in the variable api_token.
3. python3 todoist-export-completed.py

Output

The script will run and output the entire response in todoist_tasks_incremental.json, in the same directory as the script.

The default output isn't organized. To fix this, simply run jq '.[]' todoist_tasks_incremental.json > output.json.

This will format the JSON into output.json and make it readable. You can download jq from brew or apt, depending on what OS you are running.

Too many tasks?

If you have too many tasks, change max_tasks on line 4 to be a higher number. This increases the amount of pages to request. The program will automatically exit once the API stops returning tasks.