Reportr

"Your life's personal dashboard."

Reportr is a complete application which works like a dashboard for tracking events in your life (using a very simple API). With a simple interface, it helps you track and display your online activity (with trackers for Facebook, Twitter, GitHub, ...) or your real-life activity (with hardware trackers or applications like Runkeeper).

The project is entirely open source and you can host your own Reportr instance on your own server or Heroku.

A simple instance of Reportr runs at www.reportr.io. This is a very small instance and you can't use it yet for tracking a lot of events, but I'll probably scale this in the future.

Why is Reportr great?

• Host your own Reportr instance and keep your data private
• Track events from anywhere (web server, client application, connected hardware, ...)
• It's very simple to track an event: HTTP API
• Simple, but powerful web dashboard
• Realtime display
• One place for all your personal analytics data
• Very simple to export data for analytics (machine learning, ...)

How to host your own Reportr instance?

Get the application source code

# Clone the source code
$ git clone https://github.com/SamyPesse/reportr.git && cd ./reportr

Configuration

Configure the Reportr instance using Heroku config vars or define these variables in a .env file for local use. Configure the differents trackers using Trackers list below.

# Host name
HOST

# Express Secret session
SESSION_SECRET

Create your application and deploy it

# Create your heroku application
$ heroku create

# Add MongoHQ or MongoLab addon for heroku
$ heroku addons:add mongohq:small
or
$ heroku addons:add mongolab:sandbox

# Deploy the application
$ git push heroku master

# Open the application in your browser
$ heroku open

Run it locally

For running it in local, use foreman from heroku:

foreman start

Build and test the client

Reportr client uses HappyRhino.js which needs a build process.

# Build and run
make

# or only build
make build

Run for free on heroku (only one web dynoo)

You can run Reportr for free on Heroku by using the Procfile named Procfile-free, it'll only run one web dyno (with the worker and background task in it).

# Change mode
make mode-free

# Run it
make run

# Deploy it
make deploy

Trackers

State	Name	Description	Configuration
X	Web Navigation	Track web navigation using a Chrome extension
X	Ping	Ping state of the Reportr instance
X	Foursquare	Track your checkins	Callback url is /auth/foursquare/callback
			FOURSQUARE_CLIENTID
			FOURSQUARE_CLIENTSECRET
X	GitHub	Track coding activity on GitHub	Callback url is /auth/github/callback
			GITHUB_CLIENTID
			GITHUB_CLIENTSECRET
X	Facebook	Track relations on Facebook	Callback url is /auth/facebook/callback
			FACEBOOK_CLIENTID
			FACEBOOK_CLIENTSECRET
X	Twitter	Track twitter activity (tweets, mentions, ...)	Callback url is /auth/twitter/callback
			TWITTER_CLIENTID
			TWITTER_CLIENTSECRET
X	Runkeeper	Track fitness activity from Runkeeper	Callback url is /auth/runkeeper/callback
			RUNKEEPER_CLIENTID
			RUNKEEPER_CLIENTSECRET
X	Fitbit	Track fitness activity from Fitbit	Callback url is /auth/fitbit/callback
			FITBIT_CLIENTID
			FITBIT_CLIENTSECRET
-	Temperature	Track the temperature in a room (using tessel.io)

APIs

Reportr uses a HTTP REST API to track event and manage models.

Data is always JSON encoded and Base64 encoded and passed as a "data" argument. You can pass a "callback" arguments for using HTTP API in a client side application.

Python and Javascript libraries for Reportr are in the examples directory. To build the Javascript client library, you will need 'browserify' (npm install -g browserify).

Track events

Events are defined by 'event', 'namespace' and 'properties'. You can alse specify optional paramaters such as 'id' for updating a unique event if existant or define 'timestamp' to track date & time for the event.

<host>/api/<token>/events/track

{
	"namespace": "string", // Event namespace
	"event": "(string)", // Event name
	"properties": {
		// Properties for the event
	}
}

List events

# List last events
<host>/api/<token>/events/last

# List specific events
<host>/api/<token>/events/<namespace>/<event>

Get data series

<host>/api/<token>/data/<namespace>/<event>?arguments

arguments could contains :
interval: Interval between data (in ms) (default: 1000)
period: Period for events (in ms) (default: -1)
property: Property to calculate (default: null)
transform: Transofrmation to do (default: 'sum')
fill: Fill empty time with 0 (default: true)

Define models

Event models define information about how to display an event in the dashboard.

<host>/api/<token>/model/set

{
	"namespace": "string", // Event namespace
	"event": "(string)", // Event name
	"name": "(string)", // Display name for the event
	"icon": "(string)", // Url for a 64x64 icon image
	"description": "(string)", // Description text for the event
}

List models

<host>/api/<token>/models

Special properties for events

When you track events using the API, you can define some special properties that can be use by Reportr for advanced use. Special properties always begin with '@'.

@lat : latitude for location
@lng : longitude for location