Understanding Todoist-API

Question

I am trying to use the Todoist-API for Python. I found the official docs on the internet and downloaded the GitHub-Repo. Unfortunately I don't get out how to add a new task.

I do the normal login:

api = todoist.TodoistAPI(XYZ)
api.sync

Then I try to add a new task:

item = api.items.add('Task1')

It tells me I have to give two arguments: name and project_id:

item = api.items.add('Task1', 128501470)

Does anyone know where I could get all my projects IDs? I just want to use the Inbox-Project (default).

Answer 1

I'm not very familiar with this specific API, but considering you're using this api: https://github.com/doist/todoist-python, you can probably do something like:

response = api.sync()
projects = response['projects']
for project in projects: 
   print(project['name'] + '-' + project['id'])

Basically printing all the names and id's

Answer 2

Just open Todoist in a web browser and look at the address bar, it's right after "project", I beleive you need to truncate the first three or 4 characters though, click through a few projects and you'll see the project id's change.

Answer 3

To add them to the inbox the easiest way is to do the following:

    from todoist.api import TodoistAPI

    apiToken = 'your token"
    todoist: TodoistAPI = TodoistAPI(api_token)
    response = todoist.add_item("Item1")
    todoist.sync()
    todoist.commit()

You will have to refresh either the web page or your app to immediately see the new item