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Toggl

Toggl is a time tracking and productivity management platform that helps individuals and teams monitor work hours, analyze productivity patterns, and generate detailed reports for project management and billing purposes.

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Power end-to-end data operations for your Toggl API with Nexla. Our bi-directional Toggl connector is purpose-built for Toggl, making it simple to ingest data, sync it across systems, and deliver it anywhere — all with no coding required. Nexla turns API-sourced data into ready-to-use, reusable data products and makes it easy to send data to Toggl or any other destination. With comprehensive monitoring, lineage tracking, and access controls, Nexla keeps your Toggl workflows fast, secure, and fully governed.

Features

Type: API

SourceDestination

  • Seamless API Integration: Connect to any endpoint as source or destination without coding, with automatic data product creation
  • Visual Composition & Chaining: Build complex integrations using visual templates, chain API calls, and compose workflows with data validation and filtering
  • API Proxy: Expose curated slices of your data securely with a secure and customizable API proxy that validates and transforms data on the fly
  • Request optimization with intelligent batching, retry, and caching to minimize API calls and costs

Prerequisites​

Before creating a Toggl credential, you need to obtain your Toggl Email and Password from your Toggl account. Toggl uses Basic Authentication for all API requests, with the email and password sent in the Authorization header.

To obtain your Toggl credentials, follow these steps:

  1. Sign in to your Toggl account at https://track.toggl.com using your email and password.

  2. Your Email is the email address you use to sign in to your Toggl account. This should be a user account with appropriate permissions to access the API endpoints you need.

  3. Your Password is the password associated with your Toggl email. Ensure the user account has the necessary API permissions to access the data you need.

  4. For API access, ensure your Toggl user account has the appropriate permissions:

    • Workspace Admin role for administrative API operations
    • Workspace Member role for basic API access
    • Additional permissions may be required depending on the specific resources and data you need to access

  5. Store both credentials securely, as you will need them to configure your Nexla credential. The Email and Password are sensitive information and should be kept confidential.

The Email and Password are used for Basic Authentication in all API requests to the Toggl API. The credentials are sent in the Authorization header with Basic Authentication encoding. The credentials authenticate your requests and grant access to Toggl resources based on your account permissions. If your credentials are compromised, you should immediately change your Toggl password and review your account security settings. For detailed information about Toggl API authentication, user roles, and available endpoints, refer to the Toggl API documentation.

Authenticate​

Credentials required​

FieldRequiredSecretDescription
EmailYesNoEnter your Toggl account email.
PasswordYesYesEnter your Toggl account password.

Create a credential in Nexla​

  1. After selecting the data source/destination type, click the Add Credential tile to open the Add New Credential overlay.

New Credential Overlay – Toggl

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  1. Enter a name for the credential in the Credential Name field and a short, meaningful description in the Credential Description field.

  2. Enter your Toggl Email in the Email field. This is the email address you use to sign in to your Toggl account. The Email is used along with the Password in Basic Authentication for all API requests to the Toggl API. Ensure the user account has the necessary API permissions and roles to access the data you need.

  3. Enter your Toggl Password in the Password field. This is the password associated with your Toggl email. The Password is used along with the Email in Basic Authentication for all API requests to the Toggl API. The Password is sensitive information and must be kept confidential.

    Your Toggl credentials are your Toggl account email and password that you use to sign in to your Toggl account at https://track.toggl.com.

    The Email and Password are used for Basic Authentication in all API requests to the Toggl API. The credentials are sent in the Authorization header with Basic Authentication encoding. Ensure your Toggl user account has the appropriate permissions and roles (e.g., Workspace Admin, Workspace Member) to access the API endpoints you need.

    If your credentials are compromised, you should immediately change your Toggl password and review your account security settings. The credentials provide access to your Toggl account data and should be treated as sensitive information. Keep your credentials secure and do not share them publicly.

    For detailed information about Toggl API authentication, user roles, and available endpoints, see the Toggl API documentation.

  4. Click the Save button at the bottom of the overlay. The newly added credential will now appear in a tile on the Authenticate screen during data source/destination creation.

Use as a data source​

To create a new data flow, navigate to the Integrate section, and click the New Data Flow button. Select the Toggl connector tile, then select the credential that will be used to connect to your Toggl account, and click Next; or, create a new Toggl credential for use in this flow.

Endpoint templates​

Nexla provides pre-built templates that can be used to rapidly configure data sources to ingest data from common Toggl endpoints. Select the endpoint from which this source will fetch data from the Endpoint pulldown menu. Available endpoint templates are listed in the expandable boxes below.

Fetch Resources for Logged in User

This endpoint template retrieves a list of resources for the authenticated user from your Toggl account. Use this template when you need to access user-specific resources such as projects, clients, workspaces, or other Toggl resources for analysis, reporting, or integration purposes.

  • Enter the Resource Type in the Resource Type field. This should be the type of Toggl resources you want to retrieve (e.g., projects, clients, workspaces, time_entries, etc.). The Resource Type determines which type of resources will be retrieved. Available resource types include projects, clients, workspaces, time_entries, and other user-specific resources.
  • Optionally, enter the API Version in the API Version field. This should be the Toggl API version to use (e.g., v9). The default API version is typically v9. The API Version determines which version of the Toggl API will be used for the request.

This endpoint returns a list of resources for the authenticated user from your Toggl account, including resource IDs, names, and other resource metadata. The endpoint returns all resources of the specified type for the authenticated user.

The Resource Type can be selected from available options (e.g., projects, clients, workspaces, time_entries, etc.). The API Version determines which version of the Toggl API will be used. For detailed information about resources, API response structures, and available resource types, see the Toggl API documentation.

Once the selected endpoint template has been configured, click the Test button to the right of the endpoint selection menu to retrieve a sample of the data that will be fetched. Sample data will be displayed in the Endpoint Test Result panel on the right, allowing you to verify that the source is configured correctly before saving.

Manual configuration​

Toggl data sources can also be manually configured to ingest data from any valid Toggl API endpoint, including endpoints not covered by the pre-built templates, chained API calls, or custom query parameters and filters. Select the Advanced tab at the top of the configuration screen, and follow the instructions in Connect to Any API to configure the API method, endpoint URL, date/time and lookup macros, path to data, metadata, and request headers.

The Toggl API endpoint URL should include the API base URL (https://api.track.toggl.com/api/v9/) and the resource path (e.g., https://api.track.toggl.com/api/v9/me/projects). For the Response Data Path, use $.{resource_type}[*] to extract all items from the resource array (e.g., $.projects[*]), or $[*] depending on your endpoint's response structure.

Once all of the relevant settings have been configured, click the Next or Save button to save and create the new Toggl data source. Nexla will now begin ingesting data from the configured endpoint and will organize any data that it finds into one or more Nexsets.