First the good news:
And now the bad: It costs you $50/ year for your data to truly belong to you. For a ‘premium’ membership, you can visit your data as often as you choose. If only Andy had posted sooner, I would have saved $50. But, dear readers, in order to explore all avenues, I spent the bucks. And here’s some data (screenshot–I don’t want you analyzing *my* data!)
It’s pretty easy and painless. Next I’ll try Andy’s advice, and see if I can save $50 next year.
[...] date, they’ve been discussing how to get personal Fit Bit data and Yelp [...]
I gave this a go and, sorry to say, couldn’t get it to work for me. But I’d love to hear if others got it to work. Some initial steps, before you get started:
1) make sure you have a google account and know how to access google docs and google spreadsheets.
2) Register your “api”. This process assumes you’re creating a new app for the world to see, when instead, you’re using someone else’s script. So I just answered the questions it asked in a fairly arbitrary way that came as close to the truth as the questions allowed. Then, be sure to copy and save the tokens it gives you. You’ll use them again later.
3) The directions on https://github.com/loghound/Fitbit-for-Google-App-Script are pretty straight-forward. For me, I got hung up on the running the script ‘refreshTimeSeries’ step—this script runs forever, without filling the spreadsheet with data.
So it looks as if, at least for the short term, my $50 was well spent.