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Wakatime Create Heartbeat Example

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Wakatime Create Heartbeat Example is an example object payload from WakaTime, with 2 top-level fields. It illustrates the shape of data this provider's APIs accept or return.

Top-level fields

requestresponse

Example Payload

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{
  "request": {
    "method": "POST",
    "url": "https://wakatime.com/api/v1/users/current/heartbeats",
    "headers": {
      "Authorization": "Basic d2FrYV9zZWNyZXRfNTAwMTIzOg==",
      "Content-Type": "application/json"
    },
    "body": {
      "entity": "/Users/kin/code/wakatime-cli/main.go",
      "type": "file",
      "category": "coding",
      "time": 1748600000.123,
      "project": "wakatime-cli",
      "branch": "main",
      "language": "Go",
      "is_write": false,
      "lineno": 42,
      "cursorpos": 7,
      "lines": 312
    }
  },
  "response": {
    "status": 201,
    "body": {
      "data": {
        "id": "5f8a2c7f-8b3a-4c2c-9b3f-1d2c4f5b6a7c",
        "user_id": "5f8a2c7f-8b3a-4c2c-9b3f-1d2c4f5b6a7c",
        "entity": "/Users/kin/code/wakatime-cli/main.go",
        "type": "file",
        "category": "coding",
        "time": 1748600000.123,
        "project": "wakatime-cli",
        "branch": "main",
        "language": "Go",
        "is_write": false,
        "lineno": 42,
        "cursorpos": 7,
        "lines": 312,
        "machine_name_id": "machine-001",
        "user_agent_id": "ua-001",
        "created_at": "2026-05-30T19:33:20.123Z",
        "modified_at": "2026-05-30T19:33:20.123Z"
      }
    }
  }
}