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Show HN: iOS Screen Time from a REST API

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Post by anteloper »

We're Oliver and Royce and we're the founders of Clearspace. We build tools to help people reduce their screen time (here’s us two years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35888644)

We get all kinds of requests from users for ways they'd like to use their screen time data.

- “Auto-donate $x to charity every time I exceed a limit or try to bypass it”

- “My 75 Hard group has a screen time requirement, can we set up group visibility?”

- “Let my personal agent know if it’s a good time to tackle things on my todo list”

- “Auto-report large deviations in my screen time to my therapist “

We aren't able to build for all of them, so we're releasing this API.

This is the first time iOS Screen Time is accessible on the web. Apple doesn’t expose it, but since we measure it ourselves, we can - via UI or API. We're launching this API so developers can build all these tools and more. Our goal is to enable more solutions to what we believe is the biggest problem in the world - the misalignment of human attention and intention in the digital world.

Here's a quick demo of setting up and using the API: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QahETj3xaaIsn0JiNbuqvTaSLdx...

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Re: Show HN: iOS Screen Time from a REST API

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Post by anteloper »

noleary wrote: post #2

Can you extend access to everyone with the link?

As in allow everyone with a link to programatically retrieve your screen time data? You can't limit by link at the moment but you can go public and allow anyone to programatically access your screen time data.

thescreentimenetwork.com is effectively a list of people doing just that. Does that answer your question?

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Post by noleary »

anteloper wrote: post #3
noleary wrote: post #2

Can you extend access to everyone with the link?

As in allow everyone with a link to programatically retrieve your screen time data? You can't limit by link at the moment but you can go public and allow anyone to programatically access your screen time data. thescreentimenetwork.com is effectively a list of people doing just that. Does that answer your question?

no I just meant the google drive link :)

it says 'access denied' for me

Re: Show HN: iOS Screen Time from a REST API

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Post by anteloper »

noleary wrote: post #4
anteloper wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As in allow everyone with a link to programatically retrieve your screen time data? You can't limit by link at the moment but you can go public and allow anyone to programatically access your screen time data. thescreentimenetwork.com is effectively a list of people doing just that. Does that answer your question?

no I just meant the google drive link :) it says 'access denied' for me

fixed

Re: Show HN: iOS Screen Time from a REST API

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Post by alexdanilowicz »

As someone who currently "bricks" his phone and has gamified it a bit by sharing my stats with my brother-in-law who also does that, this is cool. I do think "not spending time on your phone" needs to be celebrated more.

P.S. "bricks" meaning a very strict screentime set up, only basically phone + text is available M-F

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Post by crossman »

alexdanilowicz wrote: post #6

As someone who currently "bricks" his phone and has gamified it a bit by sharing my stats with my brother-in-law who also does that, this is cool. I do think "not spending time on your phone" needs to be celebrated more. P.S. "bricks" meaning a very strict screentime set up, only basically phone + text is available M-F

I'd love to hear more about how you gamified it what your process is
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