How Do I Get The Raw Data From My FitBit Watch?

[JorgeCisneros]

Hello There, Browsing in Google I Found This Page:
https://www.squashleagues.org/fitbit/SelectFitbitData

Wich lets you download your FitBit raw data itself as a excell file. But, it 'only' has Heart Rate, Activity and Sleep data. I would like to replicate it, but including the Accelerometer Data.

Is there any 'oficial' way to create something like this?

When you go to the SquashLeagues page, and download your own data, it takes you to FitBit page and asks you for per missions to a 'Third Party' uses it.

Do, how do I something like that?

Thanks

[Gondwana]

You can't use that same approach to get accelerometer data because accelerometer data isn't available through the Web API.

It is possible to download accelerometer data and import it into Excel, but you have to use the device and companion APIs, and implement your own server. There's no 'official' or easy way to do it.

[JorgeCisneros]

Okay, I can't do it with the accelerometer.

How can I do it with the other sensors like Heart Rate, Sleep and Activity data(?)

[Gondwana]

The official (and probably only) way to do it is to use the Web API. That's what squashleagues uses.

[KarlWalks]

Hi Gondwana,
We're trying to use the accelerometer data from Fitbit to build an Action-Classification Network for Wheelchair users.
Has anything changed since 2020 to make it easier to extract the raw data files?

Thanks

[Gondwana]

@KarlWalksNot that I'm aware of. Raw data files for accelerometer may not even exist (because there would be too much data).

I threw together a rough repo that might be relevant.

Unrecoverable comms dropouts may limit feasibility.

[KarlWalks]

I'll check it out. Thanks for the help