Console client (PHAR)

Cross-platform console client for Kimai

Kevin Papst
Offered by
Kevin Papst

PHP Command line client for Kimai.

Features

This command line client should help work Kimai remotely via your favorite shell.

It is based on the PHAR technology, so you need PHP >= 7.3 installed on your machine to use it.

You can find the full documentation at GitHub.

Download and install

I cannot help with windows installs, this is only for Linux and Mac:

curl -LO https://github.com/kevinpapst/kimai2-console/releases/latest/download/kimai.phar
curl -LO https://github.com/kevinpapst/kimai2-console/releases/latest/download/kimai.phar.sha1
sha1sum --check kimai.phar.sha1
rm kimai.phar.sha1
chmod +x kimai.phar
mv kimai.phar /usr/local/bin/kimai

Before using it the first time, you have to create a configuration file, which holds the connection infos for Kimai. By default this config file will be located at ~/.kimai2-console.json:

kimai configuration

Make sure the file is only readable for your own user:

chmod 600 ~/.kimai2-console.json

That’s it, you can use Kimai from the command line now, like so:

$ kimai
$ kimai customer:list

By default the configuration file holds credentials for the demo installation … but now its time to target your own Kimai installation! Edit the config file and change the settings: URL, username and API token.

You can find all options in the help:

$ kimai

 _  _____ __  __    _    ___   ____
| |/ /_ _|  \/  |  / \  |_ _| |___ \
| ' / | || |\/| | / _ \  | |    __) |
| . \ | || |  | |/ ___ \ | |   / __/
|_|\_\___|_|  |_/_/   \_\___| |_____|

Kimai 2 - Remote Console version 0.3 2020-01-05 17:56:49 UTC (#55c3766)

Usage:
  command [options] [arguments]

Options:
  -h, --help            Display this help message
  -q, --quiet           Do not output any message
  -V, --version         Display this application version
      --ansi            Force ANSI output
      --no-ansi         Disable ANSI output
  -n, --no-interaction  Do not ask any interactive question
      --profile         Display timing and memory usage information
      --csv             Render raw data instead of styled tables
  -v|vv|vvv, --verbose  Increase the verbosity of messages: 1 for normal output, 2 for more verbose output and 3 for debug

Available commands:
  active         List active timesheets
  configuration  Handle the Kimai configuration file
  help           Displays help for a command
  list           Lists commands
  start          Starts a new timesheet
  stop           Stops running timesheets
  version        Show the Kimai version
 activity
  activity:list  List available activities
 customer
  customer:list  List available customers
 project
  project:list   List available projects
 self
  self:check     Checks for available updates
  self:rollback  Rollback to the latest available version
  self:update    Update to the latest available version
Offered by

Kevin Papst

Building Kimai since 2009

If you have any question, please use the following contact information to get in touch with the developer directly.
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