---
id: rtmapi
version: "0.7.2"
license: License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License
license_treatment: permissive
maintenance: abandoned
---

# RtmAPI — API package for rememberthemilk.com

License: permissive · Maintenance: abandoned · Downloads: 73.9K/mo

## What it is and what it does

RtmAPI is a Python wrapper around the Remember the Milk REST API, letting you build desktop or web applications that read and modify task lists stored in RTM. It handles authentication (desktop and web flows), wraps API responses in Python objects with convenient property access, and manages lists of XML child elements so you can iterate over tasks naturally.

The package has no external runtime dependencies and installs easily, but it is abandoned—last updated in 2019 and targeting Python 2.6–3.1. While the MIT license is permissive, the lack of maintenance means no updates for API changes, security issues, or modern Python compatibility. It remains moderately downloaded, suggesting some continued use, but new projects should verify whether RTM's API and this binding still work as documented.

Use it for:

- Build a desktop Python script to sync or export your Remember the Milk tasks to another system
- Automate task creation or updates in RTM from a Python application or workflow
- Query and analyze your task lists programmatically for reporting or personal analytics
- Integrate RTM task data into a custom Python dashboard or management tool

## Worth the install?

AI-flagged interpretation of the facts above — verify before relying.

RtmAPI provides Python bindings to the Remember the Milk task management API, allowing you to programmatically access and manipulate task lists from RTM.

No, unless you have an existing codebase already using it. The package is abandoned (last release 2019-04-02), targets obsolete Python versions (2.6–3.1), and has no maintainer to address API changes or compatibility issues. Modern Python versions and current RTM API behavior are unverified. If you need RTM integration, consider whether the Remember the Milk API has official or actively maintained client libraries, or evaluate alternative task management APIs.

## Install

pip install rtmapi
uv add rtmapi
poetry add rtmapi

## Installing RtmAPI

Before you install: Installation is frictionless with no runtime dependencies, but the package is abandoned—last release was 2019-04-02, over 2691 days ago. It was classified as Beta and targets Python 2.6–3.1, so compatibility with modern Python versions is unverified.

License in practice: Licensed under MIT (permissive), so you can use it freely in commercial or private projects without restriction, though the abandoned status means no ongoing legal or security updates.

Quickstart:

pip install RtmAPI

from rtmapi import Rtm
rtm = Rtm(api_key='your_key', shared_secret='your_secret')
# See examples folder for desktop/web authentication patterns

Requires a Remember the Milk API key and shared secret; the package targets Python 2.6–3.1 and compatibility with modern Python versions is unverified.

Verify before relying:

- Whether RtmAPI works reliably on modern Python versions despite targeting only 3.1
- Current status of the Remember the Milk API itself and whether it remains operational
- Whether the XML parsing and object wrapping still handles RTM's current API response format

## Package facts

- License: License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License (permissive)
- Python support: unspecified
- Install friction: low
- Maintenance: abandoned
- Downloads: 73.9K/month (top 15,000 on PyPI)
- Known vulnerabilities: none known

## Tags

remember the milk api python, rtm task list api client, remember the milk python wrapper, task management api binding, rtm api python package, remember the milk automation, api-client, task-management, abandoned

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