Get Hourly Data

[Chris_tian]

Hi dear community,

Currently I am working on an app that will be used for competition in order to encourage the users for being more active. My problem is that I would like to fetch hourly data. - 15min level would be fine too though...

The problem is that this intraday data seems to be accessible only to the users. That's is fine, but the user would have to create his own developer account as I understand it.

Please correct me if I am wrong.

If there is some way to get that data, please tell me.

Best regards,

Chris

PS: Sorry, I wanted to put this topic into the Web API forum. Could someone please move it for me?

[newcomer · Accepted solution]

Hi @Chris_tian,

1. Any user's data is accessible only by users. Your app could make calls on behalf of those users if they grant corresponding permission. See: https://dev.fitbit.com/build/reference/web-api/.

2. Accessing the data with 15 minutes granularity required your app to have special permission “Intraday Access”. You could send the request using the form here: https://dev.fitbit.com/build/reference/web-api/help/. Make sure you select "Intraday Access".

Please, let us know if you have more questions.

Thanks,

Oleg

[Chris_tian]

Actually, there is one more way. Okay, it's quite stupid, but it's not impossible.

One could request the user to register an app and then make them fill-in a certain redirect-url. After that they would have to give me the client data and that's it.

Of course this is like giving up all access & privacy... Quite the incorrect way to do it, but it's not impossible.

I'm just pointing this out. Wouldn't even want to touch these waters.

Best regards,

Christian