📊 Pixela Habit Tracker

A command-line tool to log daily work hours to a Pixela habit-tracking graph. Built as part of Angela Yu's 100 Days of Python Bootcamp (Day 37), with a modification to automatically retry failed posts.

✨ Features

• Prompts for hours worked today and posts them to your Pixela graph
• Automatically retries failed posts (up to 10 attempts, 2 seconds apart) instead of failing silently
• Lets you update today's entry after a successful post

🔧 Modification from the original course project

The base course project sends a single POST request. This version wraps the POST in a retry loop, since Pixela's API can occasionally return a transient failure — useful when running the script unattended or on a flaky connection.

🚀 Setup

1. Create a free account and graph on Pixela.
2. Install dependencies:

   pip install requests

3. Set your credentials as environment variables:
   • Windows (Command Prompt): set PIXELA_TOKEN=your_secret_token_here
   • Mac/Linux: export PIXELA_TOKEN="your_secret_token_here"
4. Run the script:

   python pixela_tracker.py

🌐 Embedding Your Tracker

Copy the code below to display your live graph on your personal portfolio:

<iframe src="https://pixe.la/v1/users/komalraradhya/graphs/graph1.html" width="100%" height="200" frameborder="0"></iframe>

📝 Notes

• This is a learning project from Angela Yu's Python Bootcamp.
• If a post fails after all retry attempts, check your token, username, and graph ID.
• Never commit your Pixela token to GitHub — use environment variables as shown above.