fitbit-grabber

This is a small utility for fetching data from the FitBit web API.

It currently supports:

• Heart Rate
• Steps
• User Profile

Building

cargo build [--release] --bin fitbit-grabber

Using

Run fitbit-grabber help for a list of available subcommands.

To use fitbit-grabber, you will need to have an

1. client ID
2. client secret

To obtain a client ID and secret, register an application.

1. For "OAuth 2.0 Application Type", select "Personal". The reason for this requirement is that intraday series data is only available for persoanl applications.
2. For "Callback URL", enter "http://localhost:8080".

After completing the registration, you will need to export the client id and secret as environmner variables:

export FITBIT_CLIENT_ID=<client-id>
export FITBIT_CLIENT_SECRET=<client-secret>

Requesting an OAuth 2.0 Token

You will need to first generate and store a token for subsequent API calls

./fitbit-grabber token

If the above command is successful, the OAuth 2.0 token will be stored in a file called ".token" in the working directory.