Subscription API Detail

[geniustanley]

After subscribing to ALL events using API below

POST <a href="https://api.fitbit.com/1/user/-/apiSubscriptions/1234.json" target="_blank">https://api.fitbit.com/1/user/-/apiSubscriptions/1234.json</a><br /><code></code>

This is what I get from subscription notification.

[ { collectionType: 'activities',
date: '2019-01-23',
ownerId: 'xxxxxx',
ownerType: 'user',
subscriptionId: '1234' } ]

Some documents suggested that I can get activities from URL below

<a href="https://api.fitbit.com/1/user/xxxxxx/activities/date/2019-01-23.json" target="_blank">https://api.fitbit.com/1/user/xxxxxx/activities/date/2019-01-23.json</a><br /><code></code>

But there's no detail inside this API.

My question is, how can I know WHICH activities actually updates.

Recently my solutions is just go through all types, steps floors distance calories minutesFairlyActive, and see what has been update, using the URL below.

https://api.fitbit.com/1/user/-/activities/${resource}/date/today/3m.json

I am collecting data type like

steps: [
{
dateTime: "2018-10-23",
value: "0"
},
{
dateTime: "2018-10-24",
value: "0"
},
{
dateTime: "2018-10-25",
value: "0"
},
{
dateTime: "2018-10-26",
value: "0"

I don't my solution is a good way .

Looking for help. Any suggestions ?

Thanks so much.

[Gordon-C]

Hi @geniustanley

I think I've answered this question for you in a similar post.  The Activity endpoint in the documentation is just an example.  You can query any Activity, Activity Time Series or Activity Intraday endpoint to retrieve the updated data.  

Gordon