help menu

Join us on the Community Forums!

  • Community Guidelines

    The Fitbit Community is a gathering place for real people who wish to exchange ideas, solutions, tips, techniques, and insight about the Fitbit products and services they love. By joining our Community, you agree to uphold these guidelines, so please take a moment to look them over.

  • Learn the Basics

    Check out our Frequently Asked Questions page for information on Community features, and tips to make the most of your time here.

  • Join the Community!

    Join an existing conversation, or start a new thread to ask your question. Creating your account is completely free, and takes about a minute.

Not finding your answer on the Community Forums?

Cancel
Turn on suggestions
Auto-suggest helps you quickly narrow down your search results by suggesting possible matches as you type.
Showing results for 
Show  only  | Search instead for 
Did you mean: 

Ways to fetch multiple Fitbit user data in a cron job via OAuth flow without being flagged

‎07-26-2023 01:14

‎07-26-2023 01:14

Our application has to run a daily cron job to fetch multiple Fitbit user data (~1500 users) via OAuth, besides making sure we make the requests at a reasonable rate to avoid exceeding rate limiting issues, Will Fitbit API flag our job as malicious if all 1500 requests come from a single source (IP address)? 

What are the ways to circumvent this situation?  

Best Answer
Labels:
0 Votes
1 REPLY 1

‎07-26-2023 10:35

‎07-26-2023 10:35

Hi @kiteflyerss,

We should not flag your site as malicious.  The rate limit is 150 API calls per user per hour.  As long as your job doesn't call more than 150 API calls for each user, you should not hit a rate limit issue when the cron job runs.

Gordon

Gordon Crenshaw
Senior Technical Solutions Consultant
Fitbit Partner Engineering & Web API Support | Google
Best Answer