Download HeartRate data.

[Bee1984]

Hi all!

As computer tech specialist I love data. That's also one reason why I bought my Fitbit Charge HR. Just to get more data about how my body works in several situations.

On the "Personal Settings" site you can download some of your data like: Body, Foods, Activity and Sleep.

What I really miss here is the HeartRate data.

On the Android app I can see my HeartRate during the whole day, on the dashboard I can only see my HeartRate during excecises or just my Resting Heart Rate.

Is there anyway how I can see my 'whole day' HeartRate online? And a possibility to download this data into a .csv file like other data?

Thanks!

[Colinm39]

@SunsetRunnerSadly we cannot download the data but you can show graphs to down to a pulse every 2.2 seconds.

Here is a sample by using the Custom Activity. and because I have a slow HR and the occasional missing beat (born with it).. I can't pick it up, so the downloaded data wouldn't help me. I kept creating Custom Activities by zooming in on the area and need 4 Custom Activities.

beats 

[underblueskies]

Thanks for putting that code together. I've been meaning to export all my resting heart rate data. Bravo!! 🙂

[Colinm39]

@underblueskiesThanks for the affirmation. Another Fitbitter has asked similar things and your post allowed me to find my post immediately. Let's hope we can help them as well.

Have a wonderful day/night

[Dougald]

@Colinm39Very interesting that this can be done. I have not dug into this type of analysis at all, and am amazed at what can be pulled out.

[Elise416]

I've also had a request from a specialist for my FitBit data, particular for both sleep and heart rate. I'm annoyed that I'm going to have to manually key in my resting heart rate data for a year's worth of entries. And my medical condition often goes hand in hand with intraday heartrate swings when I have a flare. This would be super helpful for me. 

[Captsalmon]

@SquashPlayer

like others, I asked at the store if the FitBit devices allows for charting HR data.  they of course said yes...which it does not.  but then following your links, I can easily download and chart HR data with a reasonable degree of resolution.  This was critical because the work that I do is testing method for assessing impact of medication interventions in developing nations, which required time stamped correlations between activities and HR.  now, with your assist, I can get back to work.  Thanks for your efforts

[Gondwana]

Another web site that lets you download your data in the maximum available detail is ExerByte.

[Monkey27]

It's disappointing that since your post (over a year ago) downloading heart rate data is still unavailable?

The site has a link to export the data (with GPS) as a TCX.  To export as a CSV (or XML, or even a TXT) is surely a tiny add on: (i) The data is clearly there (the dashboard graph is even interactive); (ii) The dropdown, with options (including the existing limited TCX export), is already there - so there's clearly no design issue.  

It's silly that after spending € 200 EUR on a watch that getting the raw data requires scrolling through your GRAPH and keying in the numbers - seriously!!!  I want to recommend this watch to my training partner, and wanted to graph a comparison between swimming, cycling and jogging on one chart.  Probably in Excel, for ease of discussing it.  However, perhaps he's right with getting an Apple watch ... this would be a great shame and put me under pressure to join him.

[abhirkmv]

I am fairly sure that the problem is in the willingness and not the expertise or serve-side expenses. Fitbit/Garmin... deliberately want you to not have access to the data, at least for not for free. They want you locked to their framework.

It is time we citizens stand up for our right to own the data harvested about us. Boycott companies that don't let us export such data out of their app ecosystems. Even though there currently are 3rd party websites to import all the data, Fitbit may someday decide to change things at their end and break all such 3rd party services. Anything less than guaranteed access to all the collected data should be unacceptable.

After trying Fitbit/Garmin, I went to Android Wear (Polar M600), which although has fewer fitness features, is an open platform where it is easy for 3rd party apps to record and do whatever they want with the data.  

 (I have no connection to Google or Polar.)

[Wliebs]

Hello I wanted to see if there was an update to this communication I have a Fitbit Blaze and would love to be able to download my sleep and heart rate data to show my doctor

[Marjoo]

I see several posts that give a solution to getting the raw data. Very nice! What I do wonder: can any of you confirm that the data remains my property, and it not saved by the creators of the solutions somewhere for other usage?

[SquashPlayer]

Hi Marjoo

I can't comment on ALL of the proposed solutions, but I can confirm that the API I use on my website (see SquashLeagues.org), that makes fitbit users' data available to them to download (and chart) is definitely NOT permanently kept on my servers. Once the user views it and/or downloads it, it's automatically deleted shortly thereafter. 

Regards

SquashPlayer

[NisBlueFish]

Many thanks to SquashPlayer for a very usefull functionality.

I've been Squash Leagues & Ladders to download my heart rate data for some time and I noticed that the data differs from the one available through the app. For example, If I compare the maximum heart rate achieved during a day I see a varying difference. This means that Fitbit is using some kind of low pass filter to reduce the "noise" in data. Unfortunatelly, this also filters out sharp peaks in heart rate. If the fitbit service allows you to change the granularity of the data, would it be possible for you to provide us with the associated control in the user interface, so that the user can select the level of granularity available.

Once again thank you very much for your work!

[Gondwana]

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@Marjoo wrote:

I see several posts that give a solution to getting the raw data. Very nice! What I do wonder: can any of you confirm that the data remains my property, and it not saved by the creators of the solutions somewhere for other usage?

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ExerByte's privacy policy is here. It's the same as that of SquashPlayer: your data is only used to display stuff to you, and is deleted as soon as practical.

[Gondwana]

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@NisBlueFish wrote:

Many thanks to SquashPlayer for a very usefull functionality.

I've been Squash Leagues & Ladders to download my heart rate data for some time and I noticed that the data differs from the one available through the app. For example, If I compare the maximum heart rate achieved during a day I see a varying difference. This means that Fitbit is using some kind of low pass filter to reduce the "noise" in data. Unfortunatelly, this also filters out sharp peaks in heart rate. If the fitbit service allows you to change the granularity of the data, would it be possible for you to provide us with the associated control in the user interface, so that the user can select the level of granularity available.

Once again thank you very much for your work!

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I know this wasn't directed at me, but maybe I can help.

The fitbit API can provide data at one-second or one-minute resolution: see here. (In reality, the one-second resolution is typically three to five seconds.)

Some filtering of the data is probably beneficial. I've studied the highest resolution heart-rate data for my own exercise periods and found that there are often short glitches that don't make any sense (probably because my fitbit becomes misaligned from the ideal position on my wrist).

[ainejo]

Another incentive for Fitbit to update user-access to HR data: women who are trying to conceive (TTC) track all KINDS of data to narrow down their fertility windows, and there are numerous ovulation tracker apps out there to store and track this data (I had 6 downloaded on my phone at one point). The team at one of these apps, Clue, has just completed a study which shows that a woman's RHR varies significantly throughout her menstrual cycle (short write up here), and that charting this data may even help pinpoint the day of ovulation (since a temperature spike happens the day after ovulation, this could also be accompanied by a spike in RHR). Some women have graphed this data, but had to insert manually into Excel. Presumably, Fitbit could team up with pregnancy apps to share this type of data.

[Kirka]

@SquashPlayer This (your HR excel export) really is awesome. I've tracked how my heart rate changed when my mom was having open heart surgery. Really neat to see the differences between pre and post op.

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@SquashPlayer wrote:

Hi All

I'm a squash player and I'm also interested to get at my heart rate data in detail - to see how my games vary with the recovery in my Heart Rate when I am playing a match, for example. I acquired a Fitbit a while ago, so of course I wanted to get my hands on the raw data from the device. It turns out that it's not all available through the standard mechanisms in the App - as others have already posted - so, I've built my own interface with Fitbit's help (through their API) and I'm now able to access lots of interesting data insights and download the data so that I can play with it to my heart's content using Excel or similar.

The download is aimed at fellow squash players who use my free League and Ladders website, but if you are interested in trying this out - you are welcome to do so. 

Try it out here

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[60minuteman]

I have been a fitbit user for years, this past week I was having trouble personal, was getting light head since last Friday through Wednesday of this week, went to the doctor and ended up in the hospital, Tracker 2 said my Blood Pressure was 79 and 85,. What happen to me was life threatening, I ended up with A Fib, BP was 160, I was running a marathon just sitting there, the Tracker 2 said I was good, what a piece of ----. my android phone told me 148, so DO NOT TRUST the Fitbit anymore going to ask for a refund and look for something else 

[Kirka]

Not sure what the Tracker 2 is? Not listed as a current product. I think
Fitbit makes it very clear that this is not a medical device. In fact,
their terms and conditions read, "The Fitbit Service is not intended to
diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease." It is up to us as consumers
to take care of our health, not depend on this device. It is merely an
advisement. A lot of people have A Fib and I am sorry to hear that is the
case for you. I am having an echocardiogram next week actually to determine
a baseline on my heart's functioning. I will tell you that for kicks I just
checked my HR on Samsung Health on my galaxy s7 edge and compared to the
fit bit. They were spot on.
Good luck to you.

[gryffin13]

Hey @SquashPlayer

Your tool is great. Only solution I found to what I wanted. Took me some time and problems just getting to what you shared, so I can only imagine how much time it took for you to create that. Do you have anywhere setup that I (and anyone else interested) could make a small donation as a thank you for taking the time to make this possible?