List competences
Lists the account's competences (skills catalogue), flat, optionally filtered by name, groups and active state.
The flat competence list of System administration > Employee competencies. Each competence shows its group, whether it is active and whether it can be deleted (no employee has it). The complete list is returned — no paging — ordered by group name and then competence name.
Use it to:
- Map TimeLog competence IDs to an external skills taxonomy
- Look up CompetenceId values for the employee-competence operations
Not for:
- Competences grouped under their groups —
GET /v2/competences/by-group
Behaviour:
- Idempotent.
- Safe to retry.
- Changes are visible to the next read immediately.
Next: PUT /v2/competences, DELETE /v2/competences/{id}, POST /v2/employee-competences
See also: GET /v2/competences/by-group
Not yet documented: request → query params.
curl -X GET "https://app3.timelog.com/your-account/api/v2/competences?searchText=example_string&groupIds=example_string&isActive=true" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_TOKEN"
import requests
import json
url = "https://app3.timelog.com/your-account/api/v2/competences?searchText=example_string&groupIds=example_string&isActive=true"
headers = {
"Content-Type": "application/json",
"Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_TOKEN"
}
response = requests.get(url, headers=headers)
print(response.json())
const response = await fetch("https://app3.timelog.com/your-account/api/v2/competences?searchText=example_string&groupIds=example_string&isActive=true", {
method: "GET",
headers: {
"Content-Type": "application/json",
"Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_TOKEN"
}
});
const data = await response.json();
console.log(data);
package main
import (
"fmt"
"net/http"
)
func main() {
req, err := http.NewRequest("GET", "https://app3.timelog.com/your-account/api/v2/competences?searchText=example_string&groupIds=example_string&isActive=true", nil)
if err != nil {
panic(err)
}
req.Header.Set("Content-Type", "application/json")
req.Header.Set("Authorization", "Bearer YOUR_API_TOKEN")
client := &http.Client{}
resp, err := client.Do(req)
if err != nil {
panic(err)
}
defer resp.Body.Close()
fmt.Println("Response Status:", resp.Status)
}
require 'net/http'
require 'json'
uri = URI('https://app3.timelog.com/your-account/api/v2/competences?searchText=example_string&groupIds=example_string&isActive=true')
http = Net::HTTP.new(uri.host, uri.port)
http.use_ssl = true
request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(uri)
request['Content-Type'] = 'application/json'
request['Authorization'] = 'Bearer YOUR_API_TOKEN'
response = http.request(request)
puts response.body
{
"Entities": [
{
"Properties": {
"Id": 1,
"Name": "Frontend",
"GroupId": 1,
"GroupName": "Skills",
"IsActive": true,
"CanBeDeleted": true
}
}
],
"Links": [
{
"Href": "https://app{server-number}.timelog.com/{account}/api/v2/competences",
"Rel": "self"
}
]
}
{
"error": "Bad Request",
"message": "The request contains invalid parameters or malformed data",
"code": 400,
"details": [
{
"field": "email",
"message": "Invalid email format"
}
]
}
{
"error": "Unauthorized",
"message": "Authentication required. Please provide a valid API token",
"code": 401
}
{
"error": "Internal Server Error",
"message": "An unexpected error occurred on the server",
"code": 500,
"requestId": "req_1234567890"
}
/v2/competences
Target server for requests. Edit to use your own host.
OAuth 2.0 bearer token, sent as Authorization: Bearer <token>. JWT and reference tokens are both accepted. The token must carry the required scope (default tlp).
The token's sub claim is the acting user. A token WITHOUT sub (client-credentials) acts as the system service user. If the sub user cannot log in (inactive, locked, deleted), the request is rejected with 401 — it is no longer let through without a user.
> Not yet documented: how to obtain a token.
> Not yet documented: token lifetime.
Authorization: Bearer <token>. JWT and reference tokens are both accepted. The token must carry the required scope (default tlp).
The token's sub claim is the acting user. A token WITHOUT sub (client-credentials) acts as the system service user. If the sub user cannot log in (inactive, locked, deleted), the request is rejected with 401 — it is no longer let through without a user.
> Not yet documented: how to obtain a token.
> Not yet documented: token lifetime.LIKE '%text%' on the competence name (% and _ act as wildcards).
Filters on CompetenceRead.Name (contains).
Comma-separated group IDs, e.g. 1,4. Omitted or empty = all groups. A non-integer entry → 500 Code 100; an empty entry ('1,,2') counts as group 0 and matches nothing.
Several values: one string, separated by ,.
Filters on CompetenceRead.GroupId (in).
true = active only, false = deactivated only, omitted = both.
Filters on CompetenceRead.IsActive (eq).
Request Preview
Response
Response will appear here after sending the request
Authentication
Bearer token. OAuth 2.0 bearer token, sent as Authorization: Bearer <token>. JWT and reference tokens are both accepted. The token must carry the required scope (default tlp).
The token's sub claim is the acting user. A token WITHOUT sub (client-credentials) acts as the system service user. If the sub user cannot log in (inactive, locked, deleted), the request is rejected with 401 — it is no longer let through without a user.
Not yet documented: how to obtain a token.
Not yet documented: token lifetime.
Query Parameters
LIKE '%text%' on the competence name (% and _ act as wildcards).
Filters on CompetenceRead.Name (contains).
Comma-separated group IDs, e.g. 1,4. Omitted or empty = all groups. A non-integer entry → 500 Code 100; an empty entry ('1,,2') counts as group 0 and matches nothing.
Several values: one string, separated by ,.
Filters on CompetenceRead.GroupId (in).
true = active only, false = deactivated only, omitted = both.
Filters on CompetenceRead.IsActive (eq).
Responses
Omitted (not []) when the list is empty.