fitbit

The Fitbit (affiliate link) is one of the best tools for activity tracking.The interface is nice and the hardware is durable and syncs wirelessly. For a personal level is good, but using group-wise or equipping all employees with a Fitbit turns out to be non-existent. During the past few days I’ve spend some time building a dashboard that lets people see the data from all users within a group. It gets all data trough the Fitbit API and summarizes it into a view per day/week/month.

I’ve started tracking my food intake with Foodzy about 13 days ago. And while doing that I already came across some interesting things. I’ve never been fully tracking my food intake, but the Foodzy app on my iPhone with extensive database (including typical dutch food) makes it quite easy. I’ve been tracking for thirteen days now. The first step I wanted to take is to generate a baseline of my typical food consumption(and thus caloric values), this way I can see where I can make improvements and measure the changes.

My quest of building API wrappers in python continues with the FitBit. The handy devices tracks most of my activities and movements during daytime. So it’s an excellent self-tracking device, especially with the wireless sync. There wasn’t an API interface available in python, so with some borrowed code I decided to build my own. I made an GitHub repository with the code and an example for you to use. Please fork and correct any changes that you think would be useful for me to learn!