Get Activity Log List

Retrieves a list of a user's activity log entries before or after a given day.

Scope: activity

Request

• URL
• CURL

Response

• Description
• Example Response

{
  "activities": [
    {
      "activeDuration": 1536000,
      "activityLevel": [
        {
          "minutes": 3,
          "name": "sedentary"
        },
        {
          "minutes": 9,
          "name": "lightly"
        },
        {
          "minutes": 2,
          "name": "fairly"
        },
        {
          "minutes": 11,
          "name": "very"
        }
      ],
      "activityName": "Walk",
      "activityTypeId": 90013,
      "calories": 204,
      "caloriesLink": "https://api.fitbit.com/1/user/-/activities/calories/date/2019-01-03/2019-01-03/1min/time/12:08/12:34.json",
      "duration": 1536000,
      "elevationGain": 0,
      "lastModified": "2019-01-04T19:31:15.000Z",
      "logId": 19018673358,
      "logType": "auto_detected",
      "manualValuesSpecified": {
        "calories": false,
        "distance": false,
        "steps": false
      },
      "originalDuration": 1536000,
      "originalStartTime": "2019-01-03T12:08:29.000-08:00",
      "startTime": "2019-01-03T12:08:29.000-08:00",
      "steps": 1799,
      "tcxLink": "https://api.fitbit.com/1/user/-/activities/19018673358.tcx"
    }
  ],
  "pagination": {
    "afterDate": "2019-01-01",
    "limit": 1,
    "next": "https://api.fitbit.com/1/user/-/activities/list.json?offset=0&limit=1&sort=asc&afterDate=2019-01-01",
    "offset": 0,
    "previous": "",
    "sort": "asc"
  }
}
      

Note: The rate limit headers are approximate and asynchronously updated. This means that there may be a minor delay in the decrementing of remaining requests. This could result in your application receiving an unexpected 429 response if you don't track the total number of requests you make yourself.

Response Type

Note: For a complete list of response codes, please refer to the Troubleshooting Guide.

Additional Information

Using units in the unit system which corresponds to the Accept-Language header provided.

The type of activity log can be determined by the logType property.

• auto_detected activity logs are those created by Fitbit’s SmartTrack feature.
• manual activity logs are user specified overrides of some or all tracker data.
• mobile_run activity logs are created after completing a MobileRun.
• tracker activity logs are those created using the multisport exercise mode on a Fitbit device.

Distance

Devices that support on-device or connected GPS will record distance when the exercise is initiated using the on-device Exercise application. For auto-detected exercises, we use steps and the stride length of the user to estimate distance. To determine how the exercise was recorded, see the Get Activity Log List response element "logType".

"offset" Query Parameter

The offset query parameter is not fully supported and it's future is unknown. Therefore, the only supported value is 0. To paginate, request the next and previous links in the pagination response object. Using the "offset" query parameter in any other capacity could cause your application to break.

Activity webhook notifications

The Fitbit Web API can send notifications when a Fitbit user has new data to download. This is possible by implementing the Subscription API and subscribing to one or more data collections. See Using Subscriptions. Whenever the activity service recognizes a change to the user’s data, a notification is sent to your application’s subscriber.

The activity collection recognizes changes to a user’s recorded activities, step count, calories burned, distance traveled, etc. Keep in mind that even when a person is not in motion, their body is burning calories. It’s possible to receive activity notifications representing calorie burn even when the user is sleeping or stationary. Today, you cannot subscribe to a subset of the user’s activity data. So, it is the responsibility of your application to query the necessary activity endpoint(s) to reconcile the data in your system.

Get Activity Goals

Get Activity TCX