Get Your Personal Time Data

Returns a record of all your time data within the ConstructionOnline Company Account

get https://api.constructiononline.com/api/TimeData

This endpoint allows users to extract a record of all their time data from the ConstructionOnline company account.

Please note: All time sheets pulled through the API will automatically be converted to UTC. Ensure your application handles the necessary time zone adjustments to maintain accurate data representation.

Requests

Sample URL request:

  • https://api.constructiononline.com/api/TimeData

Example requests in cURL, C#, Python, and JavaScript can be found below:

cURL

# replace {email} with the email address for your ConstructionOnline account
# {password} with your ConstructionOnline password
# {apikey} with your provided API key

curl https://api.constructiononline.com/api/TimeData -u {email}:{password} -H 'APIKey:{apikey}'

C#

/* replace {username} with the email address for your ConstructionOnline account
{password} with your ConstructionOnline password
{apikey} with your provided API key */

public string GetData(string endpoint) {
string username = "{username}";
string password = "{password}";
string apikey = "{apikey}";
HttpResponseMessage response = null;
HttpClientHandler handler = new HttpClientHandler() { AutomaticDecompression = System.Net.DecompressionMethods.GZip };
    using (HttpClient client = new HttpClient(handler)) {
        client.Timeout = new TimeSpan(0, 0, 30);
        client.BaseAddress = new Uri("http://api.constructiononline.com");
        client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Accept.Clear();
        client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Accept.Add(new MediaTypeWithQualityHeaderValue("application/json"));
        client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Authorization = new AuthenticationHeaderValue("Basic",
System.Convert.ToBase64String(System.Text.Encoding.GetEncoding("ISO-8859-1").GetBytes(username + ":" + password)));
        client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Add("APIKey", apikey);
        client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Add("Accept-Encoding", "gzip");
        response = client.GetAsync(endpoint).Result;
    }
    return response?.Content.ReadAsStringAsync().Result;
}
MessageBox.Show(GetData("api/TimeData"));

Python

#replace {username} with the email address for your ConstructionOnline account
#{password} with your ConstructionOnline password
#{apikey} with your provided API key

import base64, requests, json
apikey = "{apikey}"
username = "{username}"
password = "{password}"
def makeRequest(endpoint):
url = "https://api.constructiononline.com/" + endpoint
userPass = username + ":" + password
headers = {
"APIKey": apikey,
"Accept-Encoding": "gzip, deflate, br",
"Authorization": "Basic " + base64.b64encode(userPass.encode()).decode(),
}
response = requests.get(url, headers=headers)
return json.dumps(json.loads(response.text), indent=2)

#Main Program
print(makeRequest("api/TimeData"))

JavaScript

/* replace {username} with the email address for your ConstructionOnline account
{password} with your ConstructionOnline password
{apikey} with your provided API key */

username = '{username}';
password = '{password}';
apikey = '{apikey}';
function makeRequest(endpoint) {
    auth = btoa('${username}:${password}');
    var myHeaders = new Headers();
    myHeaders.append("APIKey", apikey);
    myHeaders.append("Accept-Encoding", "gzip, deflate, br");
    myHeaders.append("Authorization", "Basic ${auth}");
    var requestOptions = {
        method: 'GET',
        headers: myHeaders,
        redirect: 'follow'
   };
    fetch("https://api.constructiononline.com/" + endpoint, requestOptions)
        .then(response => response.text())
        .then(result => console.log(result))
        .catch(error => console.log('error', error));
    return response;
};makeRequest("api/TimeData");

Responses

green 200: Success

A successful request will return a 200 response with the requested time data in the body, as seen below.

[
    {
        "costCode": "",
        "startLocation": "32.5832455,-85.4413326",
        "startNote": "",
        "paid": "True",
        "source": "web",
        "type": "0",
        "projectId": "1217754",
        "startTime": "6/29/2022 3:34:08 PM",
        "endLocation": "32.5832455,-85.4413326",
        "endTime": "6/29/2022 3:34:16 PM",
        "name": "6BK8BvIrEosWG4WR1u8A",
        "createTime": "2022-06-29T20:34:09.007844Z",
        "updateTime": "2022-06-29T20:34:16.390673Z"
    }
]

red 404: Error

The server was not able to locate the resource specified in the request. 

red 429: Error

The user has surpassed the request rate limit for the hour, day, week, or month.

 red 500: Error

There was an internal server error and the server was unable to complete the request.

 

Last updated: Mar 28, 2025