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By: Eric Blue’s Blog » Zeo Personal Sleep Coach – Hacking Your Way To A Better Night’s Sleep

Sun, 02 Jan 2011 18:58:50 +0000

[...] help ease my own effort to download data and help other developers, I decided to create my own OO Perl library similar to the one I initially created for Fitbit back in May. Unlike the FitBit libary which is somewhat unofficial (Fitbit does not offer [...]

By: ericblue76

ericblue76 — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 01:15:05 +0000

API now hosted at GitHub – http://eric-blue.com/2010/06/30/fitbit-perl-api-hosted-at-github/

By: Eric Blue’s Blog » Fitbit – Perl API Hosted at GitHub

Eric Blue’s Blog » Fitbit – Perl API Hosted at GitHub — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 01:11:18 +0000

[...] Box WordPress PluginLast month I announced a new “hacking” project – creating a Perl API for my FitBit device. Traditionally, whenever I host one of my projects I usually include both the project page and [...]

By: Eric Blue

Eric Blue — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 23:21:29 +0000

Hi John,

It’s not currently hosted on any public site, however I was planning on eventually doing it (now is probably a good time!). I’d appreciate any help you can offer. My time is limited, and any way I can get the code out to the public so they can contribute in turn would be fantastic.

I’ll send you a follow-up email shortly to work out the details.

By: John SJ Anderson

John SJ Anderson — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 10:57:15 +0000

Hi, is your code available on Github or any other sort of public RCS site? I’d like to hack on this a bit, but it’s not clear whether the code available from your site is all there is at this point, or whether there’s a test suite that’s not exposed…

If I could help out, I’d be happy to help you get what you’ve got up on Github with an eye towards eventually getting it onto CPAN so that it’s easier for other people to find and extend — drop me a line if that’s something I could help with.

By: Pete Prodoehl

Pete Prodoehl — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 01:16:39 +0000

Thanks for doing this. When I read the Fitbit didn’t let you easily get at your data, I figured there might be a Perl solution.

By: jrnold

jrnold — Mon, 24 May 2010 20:20:01 +0000

Thanks for the api. While not a Perl user myself, it inspired me to fork and improve on the wadey’s python-fitbit api. My fork can be found at http://github.com/jrnold/python-fitbit. Here are a few things that I learned and thought you might find useful.

All the historical graph calls can take periods of greater than 1 day. I found that they will accept 1d, 7d, 1m, 3m, 6m, 1y, and max for the period argument.

The way I solved the cross-date problem with sleep-data as well as finding multiple sleep records for a single day is to parse http://www.fitbit.com/sleep/yyyy/mm/dd for the given date. From this, I got the ids for all the sleep records on that day. The “To Bed At” element includes both the date and time, so for the graph observations it is just a matter of incrementing one minute from the start time for each data point.

I was also able to get data on logged activities, and activity records (both summary data and the per minute data in the flash graphs) by parsing http://www.fitbit.com/activities/yyyy/mm/dd.

By: Eric Blue’s Blog » Weekly Lifestream for May 16th

Eric Blue’s Blog » Weekly Lifestream for May 16th — Mon, 17 May 2010 02:33:00 +0000

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