using todoist python api to add a recurring task

Question

I am trying to add a recurring task to todoist using the python api.

Official API Doc: https://developer.todoist.com/sync/v7/#add-two-new-tasks
Official Python library: https://github.com/Doist/todoist-python
Other Python library: https://github.com/Garee/pytodoist
Other Python library doc: https://media.readthedocs.org/pdf/pytodoist/latest/pytodoist.pdf

I tried this below but don't know how to specify the recurring settings

from pytodoist import todoist
user = todoist.login('login', 'pass')
project = user.get_project('my_project')
task = project.add_task('My Recuring task')
task = project.add_task('My Recuring task tomorrow at 2 pm')

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 27 '17 at 18:01

I recommend you to use our main library.

Here is a one-liner that creates a new task for every day:

python2.7 -c "import todoist; import os; token = os.environ.get('token'); api = todoist.TodoistAPI(token); api.items.add('test', None, date_string='ev day'); api.commit()"

Breaking it down:

# import the library
import todoist

# retrieve the token from my environment variables
import os
token = os.environ.get('token'); 

# initialize the API object
api = todoist.TodoistAPI(token)

# Create a new task called "test", with "None" as the project id and date_string as kwargs for the arguments of the item.
api.items.add('test', None, date_string='ev day')

# commit it! :)
api.commit()"

In the last argument you can pass all arguments available in the documentation as command arguments

using todoist python api to add a recurring task

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