Getting Heart Rate Intraday data for several days

[SquashPlayer]

Hi all,

When I read the API documentation for intraday heart rate data acces, it seems that it is only possible to access data for a single day - is that true? does anyone know of a way to access several days' data in a single call?

Obviously I can loop through each day, calling a single day's data each time, but this seems very inefficient. I have this working already, but I have started to receive automated emails saying "....exceeded the Fitbit API client+viewer rate limit..." from the fitbit API .

Thanks for anyone who can point me in the right direction.............

[Yael-Tamar]

Hi! 
I am having the same problem. 

Did you find a solution? 

Thanks

Yael

[AndrewFitbit · Accepted solution]

@Yael-Tamar If you're trying to backfill, then yeah you'll hit the rate limit since you can only pull 1 days worth of time series data at a time. Rate limit is 150 API requests per hour for each user that has authorized your app.

[SquashPlayer]

Hi Yael-Tamar

No, there doesn't seem to be a solution. The limits imposed by Fitbit can't be overridden. As Andrew states, the limit is 150 calls per hour. If a user tries to do more than that, they receive an error message and have to wait a period of time (anything up to an hour) before retrying. A bit frustrating!

Regards

SquashPlayer..............