The activities-steps-intraday data is returned as blank

[JSasaki]

Hello

This is a question about my customer's data.
In my system, I aggregate the number of steps for each user.

Regarding the data obtained with the endpoint below, I understand that activities-steps returns the total value for the day, and activities-steps-intraday returns the value for each minute.

URL: /1/user/[user_id]/activities/steps/date/[date]/1d.json

However, starting around July 9th, activities-steps-intraday data was returned as blank for some users.
Then, on July 15th, the same situation occurred for all users in the system.
Have there been any changes to the API specifications?

Thank you in advance.

[GordonFitbit]

Hi @JSasaki 

I will need to get some information from you to investigate this problem.   I will send you a message through Issue Tracker.

Gordon

[ian671]

I have the same issue - sometime between July 2 and July 14 intraday data stopped being returned. I've tried it using both Server and Personal type keys

Requesting this URL https://api.fitbit.com/1/user/{redacted}/activities/calories/date/$date/1d.json

returns

HTTP Request OK. Got: {

"activities-calories": [

{

"dateTime": "$date",

"value": "2573"

}

]

}

(Not literally $date, but the forum software won't allow me to post a comment with a date in it)

[GordonFitbit]

Hi @ian671 

The endpoint that you are calling is our activity time series endpoint.  Its intent is to return just the daily total for the specified date(s).  The correct syntax for querying activity intraday data is /1/user/[user-id]/activities/[resource]/date/[date]/1d/[detail-level].json.   See Get Activity Intraday by Date.

[ian671]

Thanks Gordon, fixed now by adding /1min. Strangely the code was working and returning intraday data with a 1 minute granularity before I added that, maybe it was a default.

[JSasaki]

Hi, @GordonFitbit

I apologize for the delayed response, I was on vacation.

I've shared the information you requested on the issue tracker. Please take a look.

Thanks for your continued support.

Jsasaki

[GordonFitbit]

We have been updating our endpoints to not allow bad syntax and provide the correct response.  The Activity Time Series endpoint is intended to return the daily summary data, which the intraday endpoint returns the granular data collected throughout the day.

[ian671]

Makes sense, I hadn't noticed that I'd been using the wrong syntax for (literally!) years 🙂 Thanks for your help

[JSasaki · Accepted solution]

Hi, @GordonFitbit

Thank you for your help. I understand that to get the minute-by-minute data (activities-steps-intraday) that I was previously able to retrieve, I now need to use the following endpoint:/1/user/[user-id]/activities/[resource]/date/[date]/1d/1min.json