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Units of "Coverage" variable?

We believe there may be an error in the units reported for the "coverage" variable:hrv : minutes : value : coverage -  Data completeness in terms of the number of interbeat intervals.Reported here: https://dev.fitbit.com/build/reference/web-api/intra...

Resolved! Clarification of get activity intraday by interval

Hello, everyone,At the moment I am using this api:https://dev.fitbit.com/build/reference/web-api/intraday/get-activity-intraday-by-intervalI am not experiencing any technical errors whatsoever, just different values in my app than in the fitbit app. ...

Kirus by Recovery Runner
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Error when getting Heart Rate Intraday

We're getting following errors when querying the heart rate Intraday data of our customers:Not Foundendpoint: "/1/user/-/activities/heart/date/[date]/1d/15m.json"client id: "238X37", "238WTM", "238WDK", "238WSQ"This error occurred every day at 22:00 ...

Kuchiki by Jogger
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Error when getting day summary

We're getting following errors when querying the day summary data of our customers:  404 Not Found: "{"errors":[{"errorType":"system","fieldName":"n/a","message":"Not Found"}],"success":false}" This happened on several occasions in the last days, whe...

mle23 by Recovery Runner
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Resolved! Can Phone Applications Make Use of Device API

Hello everybody. VERY new developer here.I was wondering if the different APIs offered by fitibit were only accessible by their respective hardware? Could I use the device API or web API to add functionality to an app? So, for example, could I create...

Resolved! Regarding source of any data collection for Web API

Can fitbit Web API provide source device information for any data? For example, when I will fetch daily activity summary, is it possible to know from which device these data are collected from (e.g., pixel watch, fitbit charge 5).  I have gone throug...

diptopol by Recovery Runner
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7 New Data Types in Fitbit Web API

The Fitbit Web API team listened to the top requests by our developers this year and we’ve been working hard to provide seven additional data types through 2022. Our latest data type, ECG, is finally available!   In case you missed any of them, we’ve...

JohnFitbit by Fitbit Developer
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Intraday request

I have requested for Intraday access and didn't got any update ,Is there any way to check the status update?   Here's my request information Case 00100766

Active Minutes Definition

Can someone point me to the official definition of FairlyActiveMinutes and VeryActiveMinutes that is returned from the API call “get daily activity summary”? I need to find out if the definition now is based on heart rate for step-based activity. We ...

Challenge API

I am currently trying to make a live leaderboard for challenges for my company, I was wondering if there was any Challenge API or Corporate API that would allow me to get data regarding each participants progress in the challenge such as active minut...

Resolved! Sleep Logs - Duration is out of bounds

Hi, When making a Sleep Log request we get this error - "Duration is out of bounds". It looks like a Sleep Log with a duration less than 10 minutes causes this error.  Is that correct? Is 10 minutes the minimum duration for a sleep log? Thanks,Chris

bickster by Base Runner
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Heart Rate IntraDay Time Series corrupted data

Hi, I have examined data from several Fitbit users (with consent) and asked them to export their Fitbit data (through Fitbit's option to export all your data in a zip file. To my surprise, I found that many people have corrupted Intraday heart rate t...

Request access for intraday data

Dear Fitbit Team my name abia awan trisetyo, last week i already submit form to request access intraday data, but until now i did not get feedback from fitbit,could you help me this is my case number CaseNumber: 37292783 please help team Regards

Way/URL to invite users to my app?

So, I got my app and now I'd like to get friends to use it and share their data with me.But I fail to find the URL to give out to people, or the way to do that. I'm probably missing soem thing very basic here, but searching for a solution does not tu...

Get Heart Rate Intraday Time Series

Hello Fitbit Community! So, I'm building a personal project to track my weight loss journey, and may have found something unintentional. I was trying to pull my heart rate back for a single day, in second intervals (knowing that it doesn't have to re...

Resolved! GET Body Fat Logs

Hello Fitbit Community! I'm having an Issue making a specific request for Body Fat logs, and I can't figure out if it's a documentation issue, or a PEBKAC issue. On the following documentation page: https://dev.fitbit.com/build/reference/web-api/body...

Fitbit API's are timing out

Hello Guys, Need your valuable suggestion. Today our continuous monitoring tool captured that fitbit api's have been timed out and users are unable to link and sync their accounts and problem is still continue.Is fitbit server down today or some othe...

lnirvan by Jogger
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Fetch latest submitted activity logs

Hi! I am developing an app and I am using your web api development. I have some issues with fetching activity logs. I cannot rely on notification from your server. I want to fetch all new data but I cannot fetch information for more than 7d in one re...

Dzzzen by Jogger
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Activity Minute Definitions as Related to METs

There is no place on the site that defines what each level of activity minutes corresponds to in terms of METs as defined by the CDC. Is there a mapping of METs to sedentary, lightly, fairly, and very active minutes? Are METs at and above 3 just fair...

ETills by Jogger
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Resolved! ERROR while trying Get Sleep Logs by Date Range

I'm getting an error when trying to get sleep logs by Date Range. I'm trying to use this endpoint: https://dev.fitbit.com/build/reference/web-api/sleep/#get-sleep-logs-by-date-rangeI do this exact call.GET https://api.fitbit.com/1.2/user/-/sleep/date...

Mariusl by Jogger
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*NEW* Fitbit Web API Troubleshooting Guide

We're excited to announce the release of Fitbit's Web API Troubleshooting Guide.  This guide explains how to return error messages in your application, what the errors mean and recommendations for mitigation, the Fitbit tools available for debugging ...

Gordon-C by Fitbit Developer
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Video Tutorials?

Are there any good online Video Tutorials?I have searched youtube, lynda.com and other online learning sites to no avail.

Resolved! Search Food GET Request always Status 200 but EMPTY JSON

Hey all, I hope somebody can help me. I want to do a GET request with the Search Foods Query (https://api.fitbit.com/1/foods/search.json). I always get status 200 and an empty JSON -> {"foods":[]}. What am I doing wrong? It does not find any food I a...

Status 500 on activities/heart

 My script that fetches fitbit data started failing since around 25th January. Many other APIs work fine, like sleep/minutesAsleep, activities/calories and so on, but activities/heart is consistently having issues. URL accessed: /1/user/-/activities/...

sajal by Recovery Runner
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Resolved! DeviceVersion List

Where can I get the list of names or strings that may be returned in the deviceVersion property?Documentation Wiki only displays some of them: https://dev.fitbit.com/build/reference/web-api/devices/

marioVP by Recovery Runner
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Sample Data

Hello, I work for an IoT company and need sample Fitbit data to test our software. We need the following sample data, ideally in a CSV file (200-300 rows would be enough for each):Activities_AllUserInfoBodyWeightSleepStagesSleepAny help you could pro...

Gemaa by Jogger
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Incoming Webhooks

Hello, We notice that incoming webhooks on our platform have suddenly stopped. When testing our endpoint, all seems fine: This all is for the Conrad Connect platform.  Thanks for your feedback. Regards, Gert-JanWaylay

Swim stats and metrics

Hi guys. I was wondering if exist any endpoint (or parameter to an existing endpoint) to retrieve swimming metrics. I would like to have time per lap or something similar. So far I only can get this data: { "activityLog": { "activeDuratio...

juanmav by Jogger
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Resolved! Realtime Accelerometer Data from Web API

Hi Everyone, I would like to access accelerometer data (X, Y, and Z axis data) in realtime from the Fitbit Web API. Is this possible?If possible, what are the Fitbit devices I can use for this? Appreciate your time.Regards,Rashmika

5xx on specific API

Since approximately 1630 UTC 25th March 2018, I have been getting errors for the following API call./1/user/-/activities/minutesSedentary/date/2016-05-01/today.json An error occurred with the Fitbit Web API while processing the request. Error id: A2...

sajal by Recovery Runner
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Fitbit on Swagger

I am a web developer from a different company, and was wondering how you guys got your Web API to accept the OPTIONS request Swagger makes before each API call because I continuously get the 405 Method not allowed error when trying to run our API fro...