corynissen/fitbitscraper

R package to scrape fitbit data

fitbitscraper's Issues

Instructions

Hi guys,
please forgive me if I'm completly at the wrong place...
I am new to R and these kind of scripts. Is it possible to give me some hints how to use the fitbitScraper? Maybe a link to a step-by-step instruction?
Do I have to copy-paste all the login and get-* scripts into one, adapt it to my personal data and just run it in RGui and where will the data received from fitbit be stored?
Again, I apologize for maybe being seriously off-topic here!

"login fail" error message

I was able to seamlessly get data from Fitbit using fitbitScraper on 5th Sept. But the same codes now resulting in a "login fail" message. Not sure what changed. Everything the same, worked one day but not anymore...

cookie is null when the scrapper runs inside docker

When I run the scrapper inside a docker container, the cookie is null, it seems the issue is related to httr not using https.

get_daily_data Line 60

Hi Cory,
I wanted to thank you for fitbitScraper package. It has made pulling fitbit data very efficient and far more effective than Excel certainly would have.
Just noticed a small typo which generates an error, but does not impede the output. Changing the 3 to a 4 gives you the desired result without the warning.
if(what=="getTimeInHeartRateZonesPerDay"){
df <- cbind(dat_list$dateTime, dat_list$value, stringsAsFactors=FALSE)
names(df)[1:3] <- c("time", "zone1", "zone2", "zone3")
Thanks again for the library!

Esturban

Can't Download Sleep Data

Hello,

When I try to download sleep data the following error message appears.

Error in .External2(C_writetable, x, file, nrow(x), p, rnames, sep, eol, :
unimplemented type 'list' in 'EncodeElement'

Do you know how to fix this? It doesn't happen with any of the other data.

Get Total minutes

Get package!! 🙂
In the daily data, you are reporting "minutesActive". Nowadays fitbit is reporting "totalminutes". How do I get that?

minutesVery explanation

Do you know what minutesVery in the get_daily_data() function refers to? Thanks!

Heart Rate Zones

Hi Cory,

When I run fitbitScraper::get_daily_data(cookie = cookie, what = "getTimeInHeartRateZonesPerDay", start_date = "2017-03-12", end_date = "2017-03-12") multiple times, sometimes the last column is IN_DEFAULT_ZONE_2 and sometimes the last column is IN_DEFAULT_ZONE_3. Furthermore, zone1, zone2, and IN_DEFAULT_ZONE[2|3] does not seem to consistently match to "peak", "fat_burn", "cardio". Is this something you can shed light on? I know fitbit's API is not friendly. Thanks!

Sleep stages?

Fitbit now supports different sleep categories ("AWAKE", "REM", "LIGHT", "DEEP") for certain devices; is there any way to get that data?

get_premium_export does't recognize premium subscription

Thanks so much for this great package! Infinitely better than suffering their export process.

I have a premium subscription to fitbit and am having an issue with get_premium_export. When I run:

get_premium_export(cookie, what = "ACTIVITIES", start_date = "2015-01-13", end_date = "2015-01-20")

I get the error:

Error in get_premium_export(cookie, what = "ACTIVITIES", start_date = "2015-01-13",  : 
  problem with request, this may be available only for premium subscribers

I've logged into the site and confirmed that my premium subscription is active. I re-created the cookie variable and am still getting the error.

Is there anything else I can check? Is this still working for you/someone else?

Thanks in advance,
Leigh

get_intraday_data error

Thank you for this package. I was looking for something just like this.

This code:
df = get_intraday_data(cookie, what="heart-rate", date="2018-06-23")

gives me the error below:

Error in curl::handle_setopt(handle, .list = req$options) :
Value for option cookie (10022) must be length-1 string

Could it be because I only have 4 days of data, not a week yet? I can't think of anything else. I am not an advanced R user, so appreciate any help.
Thank you

Error message when password is wrong

When calling

cookie <- login(email="[email protected]", password=Sys.getenv("FBPW"), rememberMe = TRUE)

with the wrong password nothing happened. Can the user get some information that the login went wrong?

Request: include additional field options

Current options for data export: "steps", "distance", "floors", "minutesVery", "caloriesBurnedVsIntake"

Would like to be able to import "minutes lightly active" and "minutes fairly active" as well as "sedentary minutes" (or whatever it's called within the system). I'll play around with the code too and see if I can come up with something that I can contribute to the package, but since you already know how to do it I figured I'd ask!

get_activity_data

I'm having trouble pulling specific dates when using get_activity_data. It seems that no matter what dates I use it pulls the most recent two weeks.

I'm using R 3.2.3, Rstudio Version 0.99.473, on Mac OSX 10.10.3 Yosemite.

day_activites3 <- get_activity_data(cookie, start_date="2015-12-25", end_date = "2015-12-31")
returns the last two weeks of data instead of the specified days. I noticed this first when I was trying to just pull data from December. I started playing with the start and end date and noticed that no matter which dates I use it always pulls the most recent two weeks. I haven't had this problem with any of the other commands. Any ideas?