HOW to use the fitness API on NodeJS

[codemodify]

The OAuth 2.0 playground is useless and never returns anything, gapi package seems from 8 years ago, google-api-nodejs-client has no documentation at all.

Is there a simple 1-2-3 steps example that shows how to query number of steps that was ever recorded ?

The scenario is:

• user logs in with Firebase auth providers
• get that magic tokens to and pass them to the Firebase function to read his fitness data

The next frustrating part is the fitness data sources/datasets and all that, complete nightmare, no way to understand how it is organized. Feels like a low level SQL database than an actual API

Then there are next steps:
From here: https://github.com/googleapis/google-api-nodejs-client#oauth2-client

Is this expected to be asked on the client side like a web page then the token to be send to the backend where it will be used to query the fitness data ?

dear god

[bcoe]

@codemodify there is not an example of the fitness API at this time, having said this, I think you should be able to potentially use some of the other samples as a starting point, in the samples folders (all of the REST APIs are interacted with in similar manner).

You will find the methods supported by the API wrapper documented here, and there will be a close corollary to the methods outlined in the REST API here.

As for authentication, you will likely be creating an OAuth 2.0 Web Server Application, you will initially send the user through an authentication flow, at which point you store a refresh token for the user, which can be used by your application to update their credentials over time.