Jan 21, 2018
Below are examples of the types of data you can aquire from Fitbit's API. To register your app and set up an API, see this helpful tutorial.
The codes below were modified from Paul's Geek Dad Blog
Get heart rate data in second intervals.
import requests
import json
import pandas as pd
from time import sleep
# put the token for your app in between the single quotes
token = '<enter your token here>'
# make a list of dates
# ref: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/993358/creating-a-range-of-dates-in-python
# You can change the start and end date as you want
# Just make sure to use the yyyy-mm-dd format
start_date = '<start date>'
end_date = '<end date>'
datelist = pd.date_range(start = pd.to_datetime(start_date),
end = pd.to_datetime(end_date)).tolist()
for ts in datelist:
date = ts.strftime('%Y-%m-%d')
url = 'https://api.fitbit.com/1/user/-/activities/heart/date/' + date + '/1d/1sec/time/00:00/23:59.json'
filename = 'HR'+ date +'.json'
response = requests.get(url=url, headers={'Authorization':'Bearer ' + token})
if response.ok:
with open(filename, 'w') as f:
json.dump(response.content, f)
print (date + ' is saved!')
sleep(30)
else:
print ('The file of %s is not saved due to error!' % date)
sleep(30)---------------------------------------------------------------------------
ValueError Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-1-e4ce9fffa525> in <module>()
13 start_date = '<start date>'
14 end_date = '<end date>'
---> 15 datelist = pd.date_range(start = pd.to_datetime(start_date),
16 end = pd.to_datetime(end_date)).tolist()
17
/anaconda2/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pandas/core/tools/datetimes.pyc in to_datetime(arg, errors, dayfirst, yearfirst, utc, box, format, exact, unit, infer_datetime_format, origin)
516 result = _convert_listlike(arg, box, format)
517 else:
--> 518 result = _convert_listlike(np.array([arg]), box, format)[0]
519
520 return result
/anaconda2/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pandas/core/tools/datetimes.pyc in _convert_listlike(arg, box, format, name, tz)
445 return DatetimeIndex._simple_new(values, name=name, tz=tz)
446 except (ValueError, TypeError):
--> 447 raise e
448
449 if arg is None:
ValueError: Unknown string format
Get sleep data.
# put the token for your app in between the single quotes
token = '<enter your token>'
# make a list of dates
# ref: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/993358/creating-a-range-of-dates-in-python
# You can change the start and end date as you want
# Just make sure to use the yyyy-mm-dd format
start_date = '<start date>'
end_date = '<end date>'
datelist = pd.date_range(start = pd.to_datetime(start_date),
end = pd.to_datetime(end_date)).tolist()
for ts in datelist:
date = ts.strftime('%Y-%m-%d')
url = 'https://api.fitbit.com/1/user/-/sleep/date/' + date + '.json'
filename = 'sleep'+ date +'.json'
response = requests.get(url=url, headers={'Authorization':'Bearer ' + token})
if response.ok:
with open(filename, 'w') as f:
json.dump(response.content, f)
print (date + ' is saved!')
sleep(30)
else:
print ('The file of %s is not saved due to error!' % date)
sleep(30)Get step data. # put the token for your app in between the single quotes
token = '<enter your token>'
# make a list of dates
# ref: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/993358/creating-a-range-of-dates-in-python
# You can change the start and end date as you want
# Just make sure to use the yyyy-mm-dd format
start_date = '<start date>'
end_date = '<end date>'
datelist = pd.date_range(start = pd.to_datetime(start_date),
end = pd.to_datetime(end_date)).tolist()
'''
The codes below use a for loop to generate one URL for each day in the datelist,
and then request each day's data and save the data into individual json files.
Because Fitbit limit 150 request per hour, I let the code sleep for 30 seconds
between each request, to meet this limitation.
'''
for ts in datelist:
date = ts.strftime('%Y-%m-%d')
url = 'https://api.fitbit.com/1/user/-/activities/steps/date/' + date + '/today/1d.json'
filename = 'step'+ date +'.json'
response = requests.get(url=url, headers={'Authorization':'Bearer ' + token})
if response.ok:
with open(filename, 'w') as f:
json.dump(response.content, f)
print (date + ' is saved!')
sleep(30)
else:
print ('The file of %s is not saved due to error!' % date)
sleep(30)Get frequent activity data. # put the token for your app in between the single quotes
token = '<enter your token>'
# make a list of dates
# ref: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/993358/creating-a-range-of-dates-in-python
# You can change the start and end date as you want
# Just make sure to use the yyyy-mm-dd format
start_date = '<start date>'
end_date = '<end date>'
datelist = pd.date_range(start = pd.to_datetime(start_date),
end = pd.to_datetime(end_date)).tolist()
for ts in datelist:
date = ts.strftime('%Y-%m-%d')
url = 'https://api.fitbit.com/1/user/-/activities/frequent.json'
filename = 'freq'+ date +'.json'
response = requests.get(url=url, headers={'Authorization':'Bearer ' + token})
if response.ok:
with open(filename, 'w') as f:
json.dump(response.content, f)
print (date + ' is saved!')
sleep(30)
else:
print ('The file of %s is not saved due to error!' % date)
sleep(30)Get activity data.
# put the token for your app in between the single quotes
token = '<enter your token>'
# make a list of dates
# ref: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/993358/creating-a-range-of-dates-in-python
# You can change the start and end date as you want
# Just make sure to use the yyyy-mm-dd format
start_date = '<start date>'
end_date = '<end date>'
datelist = pd.date_range(start = pd.to_datetime(start_date),
end = pd.to_datetime(end_date)).tolist()
for ts in datelist:
date = ts.strftime('%Y-%m-%d')
url = 'https://api.fitbit.com/1/user/-/activities.json'
filename = 'best'+ date +'.json'
response = requests.get(url=url, headers={'Authorization':'Bearer ' + token})
if response.ok:
with open(filename, 'w') as f:
json.dump(response.content, f)
print (date + ' is saved!')
sleep(30)
else:
print ('The file of %s is not saved due to error!' % date)
sleep(30)