# API for time taken

**URL:** <https://forum.asana.com/t/api-for-time-taken/96222>\
**Category:** API & Developers\
**Created:** [4 October 2020 13:22 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/api-for-time-taken/96222 "2020-10-04T13:22:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![BI\_Reports](https://luna1.co/8d76cd.png) [@BI\_Reports](https://forum.asana.com/u/BI_Reports)\
**Post date:** [4 October 2020 13:22 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/api-for-time-taken/96222/1 "2020-10-04T13:22:00Z")

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Hey Team,

Could you help us find an API for the following highlighted column, if it has API for the same.

 ![TIME TAKENNN](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/asana/original/3X/0/a/0a5673e1433d0602f5561ac1c7f17e3142aaa23f.png)

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**Author:** ![Phil\_Seeman](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/phil_seeman/32/81525_2.png) [@Phil\_Seeman](https://forum.asana.com/u/Phil_Seeman)\
**Post date:** [4 October 2020 15:19 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/api-for-time-taken/96222/2 "2020-10-04T15:19:21Z")

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Hi @BI_Reports and welcome to the forum,

There’s no built-in Asana field for “Time Taken” so it must be a custom field. You’ll get its values by getting the data for a task (or tasks) and parsing the return data for its value among the task’s custom fields.

There are different endpoints depending on whether you want one task, all tasks in a project, a filtered list, etc. Here are a few endpoints you might use depending on your needs:

> **[Get a task](https://developers.asana.com/reference/gettask)**
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> Returns the complete task record for a single task.

> **[Get tasks from a project](https://developers.asana.com/reference/gettasksforproject)**
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> Returns the compact task records for all tasks within the given project, ordered by their priority within the project. Tasks can exist in more than one project at a time.

> **[Search tasks in a workspace](https://developers.asana.com/reference/searchtasksforworkspace)**
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> To mirror the functionality of the Asana web app's advanced search feature, the Asana API has a task search endpoint that allows you to build complex filters to find and retrieve the exact data you need.Premium accessLike the Asana web product's...

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**Author:** ![system](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/system/32/276370_2.png) [@system](https://forum.asana.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [30 May 2025 19:06 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/api-for-time-taken/96222/3 "2025-05-30T19:06:27Z")

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Closed on 30 May 2025 19:06 UTC