For all those people who forget to run their harvest timer. Here's a little script that will bug you when you do. Runs on OSX.

harvest-bugger.php

<?php
/**
 * Helper script that can be run in cron to bug you when you forgot to run a harvest timer.
 * install terminal-notifier via:
 *     sudo gem install terminal-notifier
 * Make sure to adjust your credentials.
 * Schedule via crontab -e to run weekdays 9-5
 *     <star>/10 09-17 * * 1-5 php <path-to-script>
 * replace <star> with *
 */
 
$credentials = "your_email_address:your_passwordpassword";
$url = "http://<subdomain>.harvestapp.com/daily";
 
$headers = array(
    "Content-type: application/xml",
    "Accept: application/xml",
    "Authorization: Basic " . base64_encode( $credentials )
);
 
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url );
curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, 0 );
curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1 );
curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 60 );
curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers );
curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "The Harvest Bugger" );
 
$data = curl_exec( $ch );
 
if ( curl_errno( $ch ) ) {
 
} else {
    // Show me the result
    if ( ! preg_match( '#<timer_started_at#', $data ) ) {
        system( '/usr/bin/terminal-notifier -message "No Harvest timer running" -title "Harvest bugger"' );
    }
    curl_close( $ch );
}

The script still works but on line 13, it should be https.

Also no need to install terminal-notifier, a simple notification through apple script can do:

        system(" osascript -e 'display notification \"No Harvest timer running?\"' ");