Get Lifetime Stats

Retrieves the user's activity statistics.

Scope: activity

Request

• URL
• CURL

Response

• Description
• Example Response

{
  "best": {
    "total": {
      "distance": {
        "date": "2016-07-17",
        "value": 28.69259
      },
      "floors": {
        "date": "2018-05-28",
        "value": 73.00000011096
      },
      "steps": {
        "date": "2016-07-17",
        "value": 38826
      }
    },
    "tracker": {
      "distance": {
        "date": "2016-07-17",
        "value": 28.69259
      },
      "floors": {
        "date": "2018-05-28",
        "value": 73.00000011096
      },
      "steps": {
        "date": "2016-07-17",
        "value": 38826
      }
    }
  },
  "lifetime": {
    "total": {
      "activeScore": -1,
      "caloriesOut": -1,
      "distance": 8302.5,
      "floors": 10278,
      "steps": 11152512
    },
    "tracker": {
      "activeScore": -1,
      "caloriesOut": -1,
      "distance": 8288.26,
      "floors": 10278,
      "steps": 11133281
    }
  }
}
      

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

The data is returned in the format requested using units in the unit system which corresponds to the Accept-Language header provided.

Activity statistics includes Lifetime and Best achievement values from the My Achievements tile on the website dashboard. Response contains both statistics from the tracker device and total numbers including tracker data and manual activity log entries as seen on the Fitbit website dashboard.

The Fitbit user's My Achievements (Friends or Anyone) privacy permission grants access to user's resource.

Distance, pace and speed

The Fitbit devices use the following formulas to calculate distance, pace and speed. Please note, stride length is approximated by the person's height and gender.

distance = steps * stride length
pace = time(sec) / distance
speed = distance / time(hour)

Daily activity summary and auto-detected exercises' (recorded using Smart Track) distance are estimated values based on steps and stride length. Devices that support on-device or connected GPS will record distance, pace and speed from the GPS data when the exercise is initiated using the on-device Exercise application. If the person begins moving before receiving a GPS signal, steps and stride length are used to calculate distance until the GPS connects. Intraday distance values, returned by the Intraday endpoints or Activity TCX endpoint, can be more accurate since they use the GPS data. To determine how the exercise was recorded, see "logType" values.

Some people have noticed that the standard formula for calculating pace and speed doesn't always provide accurate results. That's because pace and speed are calculated from the GPS data, while the total distance is an approximate value based on how the tracker calculates distance (GPS vs steps & stride length). The mobile application duplicates the tracker distance value by displaying the exercise summary view. This is done to provide a better user experience for the consumer. When the user drills down into the exercise details, like data charts or maps, they should see the more accurate data coming from the GPS or Intraday data.

Developers who need to display the most accurate distance values, we suggest using only the intraday distance data points instead of the activity summary.

See How does my Fitbit device calcuate my daily activity? for more information.

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