Getting user key and secret

[VinceNL]

My apologies if this might be really obvious to most of you, however I am just getting started with the FitBit API, and want to use the data from my existing account to retrieve some data for a test. To do so I would require my own user_key and user_secret, however I haven't found a clear instruction on how to retrieve these. There are some workarounds online, however I was wondering what the recommended approach for this is. Many thanks for your help!

[ibahdanau · Accepted solution]

This page has very clear instructions: https://wiki.fitbit.com/display/API/OAuth+Authentication+in+the+Fitbit+API

The oauth 1.0a flow, how ever is not the easiest thing in the world so you may need to spend some time understanding how exactly it works. Also check out this post: 

https://community.fitbit.com/t5/Web-API/How-to-properly-sign-API-request-and-set-up-OAuth-1-0a-flow/...

[VinceNL]

Thanks Ivan, that seems like what I was looking for. I just read that the API will switch to OAuth 2.0 soon, so I'll probably wait with the integration for the new API to come available to save double work. Thanks for helping out!