How to convert GET string to URL string

[michaelnares]

Hi,

I am trying to build an iOS app that uses the FitBit API.  I understand I can use OAuth as per the guidance in http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14036210/ios-http-request-example.  Two questions:

1.  How can I convert GET /1/user/-/activities/date/2010-04-02.json HTTP/1.1 into an https URL string?

2.  How do I get the right user ID for a user of my app?  Is it just the same FitBit ID that a FitBit user uses when the register to use FitBit?

[derekm]

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@michaelnares wrote:

Hi,

I am trying to build an iOS app that uses the FitBit API.  I understand I can use OAuth as per the guidance in http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14036210/ios-http-request-example.  Two questions:

1.  How can I convert GET /1/user/-/activities/date/2010-04-02.json HTTP/1.1 into an https URL string?

2.  How do I get the right user ID for a user of my app?  Is it just the same FitBit ID that a FitBit user uses when the register to use FitBit?

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It would just be https://api.fitbit.com/1/user/-/activities/date/2010-04-02.json

Rather than passing in the user you would leave the dash so that it requests the current logged-in user. 

You might want to look into this service which aims to simplify connecting to APIs: http://live.temboo.com/library/Library/Fitbit/

[michaelnares]

So as long as the user is logged in on the browser on the phone, it should work?

[derekm · Accepted solution]

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@michaelnares wrote:

So as long as the user is logged in on the browser on the phone, it should work?

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No. If you send a valid oauth access_token in the header of the API request it will work.

https://wiki.fitbit.com/display/API/API+Explorer

Read this page very several times: https://wiki.fitbit.com/display/API/OAuth+Authentication+in+the+Fitbit+API

I know you don't want to read the page above, but reading it and fully understanding it first will save you a lot of time.

Search Google for ios oAuth and FitBit tutorial or something for a step-by-step tutorial. 

[michaelnares]

Really helpful, many thanks.