Fitbit Web API Explorer

Name: Fitbit Web API Explorer API
Brand: Fitbit Web API Explorer
Availability: InStock

✓ Official Vendor SpecHealthcareClinical Dataoauth2122 EndpointsREST

For Agents

Read consented activity, sleep, heart rate, body, and intraday time-series data for Fitbit users, and log activity, sleep, weight, or food entries on their behalf.

Quickstart

Get started with Fitbit Web API Explorer in minutes using your preferred integration method.

# Add to your MCP client config (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf)
{
  "jentic": {
    "url": "https://api.jentic.com/mcp",
    "auth": "oauth"
  }
}

# Then ask your agent:
"get a user's sleep log for a date"

# → Jentic returns the GET /events tool with parameter schema, agent executes.

Capabilities

What an agent can do with Fitbit Web API Explorer API.

Read daily activity summaries, steps, distance, and active zone minutes from /1/user/-/activities endpoints

Pull intraday heart-rate and active-zone-minute series at minute or second granularity

Retrieve sleep logs, sleep goals, and sleep stages over date ranges

Access body weight, fat percentage, BMI, and Aria scale measurements over time

GET STARTED

Start building with Fitbit Web API Explorer API

Explore with Jentic

View OpenAPI Spec

Use for: Get the step count and active zone minutes for the user yesterday, Retrieve the sleep log for the last 7 nights, Find the user's current cardio fitness score, I want to pull intraday heart rate at one-minute resolution

Not supported: Does not handle medical-grade diagnostics, EHR record exchange, or non-Fitbit wearable data — use for consented Fitbit user activity, sleep, heart, body, and intraday data only.

The Fitbit Web API exposes consented user health and activity data captured by Fitbit wearables, the Aria scale, and manual logs. The 122 endpoints cover activity, heart rate, sleep, body composition, breathing rate, ECG, cardio fitness (VO2 Max), temperature, irregular rhythm notifications, foods, friends, devices, and intraday time-series data at minute or second resolution. Authorization is OAuth 2.0 with per-scope user consent, suitable for digital health apps, employer wellness programmes, and research studies.

Use Cases

Patterns agents use Fitbit Web API Explorer API for, with concrete tasks.

★ Digital Health Research

Pull consented intraday data — heart rate at one-minute resolution, breathing rate, HRV, and ECG readings — for participants in remote studies. The Fitbit Web API is one of the few consumer wearables APIs that exposes this depth of physiological data, suitable for IRB-approved research and digital therapeutics. Most studies have data ingestion live within a week.

GET /1/user/-/activities/heart/date/2026-06-09/1d/1min.json for participant X to pull one-minute heart rate, then sync to the study database

Wellness and Coaching Apps

Surface daily activity summaries, sleep quality, and active zone minutes inside a coaching or insurance wellness app. The /1/user/-/activities/date/{date}.json endpoint returns one consolidated day-summary object that is easy to render. Subscribe to data changes via the subscriptions endpoints so the app updates without polling.

Pull /1/user/-/activities/date/today.json and present steps, active zone minutes, and resting heart rate in a wellness card

Cardiac Risk Monitoring

Retrieve ECG readings, irregular rhythm notifications, cardio fitness (VO2 Max) scores, and HRV intraday data to feed a cardiac risk model or alerting workflow. Useful for digital health platforms and employer health programmes that surface flagged readings to a clinician for review. Live in 1-2 weeks including consent flows.

Query the irregular rhythm notifications endpoint, then for any positive notification pull the corresponding ECG reading and forward it to the clinician dashboard

AI Agent Health Operations

Use Fitbit through Jentic so a wellness agent can answer 'how did I sleep last night?' or log a workout via natural language. Jentic exposes the 122 endpoints as discoverable tools, with the OAuth2 access token in the vault. Get started at https://app.jentic.com/sign-up

Through Jentic, search 'get sleep log for last night', load the /1.2/user/-/sleep/date/{date}.json schema, and execute with date=yesterday

Key Endpoints

122 endpoints — the fitbit web api exposes consented user health and activity data captured by fitbit wearables, the aria scale, and manual logs.

METHOD

PATH

DESCRIPTION

GET

/1/user/-/activities/date/{date}.json

Daily activity summary

GET

/1.2/user/-/sleep/date/{date}.json

Sleep log for a date

GET

/1/user/-/activities/heart/date/{date}/1d/{detail-level}.json

Intraday heart rate

POST

/1/user/-/activities.json

Log an activity

POST

/1.2/user/-/sleep.json

Log a sleep entry

GET

/1/user/-/devices.json

List connected Fitbit devices

POST

/1.1/oauth2/introspect

Introspect an OAuth 2.0 token

GET

/1/user/-/activities/date/{date}.json

Daily activity summary

GET

/1.2/user/-/sleep/date/{date}.json

Sleep log for a date

GET

/1/user/-/activities/heart/date/{date}/1d/{detail-level}.json

Intraday heart rate

POST

/1/user/-/activities.json

Log an activity

POST

/1.2/user/-/sleep.json

Log a sleep entry

Why though Jentic?

Three things that make agents converge on Jentic-routed access.

Credential isolation

Fitbit OAuth2 access and refresh tokens are stored encrypted in the Jentic vault per end user. Token refresh and Authorization header injection happen at execution time, so the agent only ever sees scoped data not raw tokens.

Intent-based discovery

Agents search by intent (e.g. 'get sleep log' or 'log a workout') and Jentic returns the matching Fitbit operation with its input schema, removing the need to navigate 122 endpoints across activity, sleep, heart, and body domains.

Time to first call

Direct Fitbit integration: 1-2 weeks for OAuth, scope handling, token refresh, and rate-limit back-off across endpoints. Through Jentic: under 1 hour for the API surface — OAuth consent capture remains your responsibility.

Related APIs

Alternatives and complements available in the Jentic catalogue.

Complementary

Fireflies.ai GraphQL API

Adds meeting transcript context to a wellness/productivity agent built on Fitbit

Pair when an executive wellness agent combines meeting load with sleep and HRV trends

Complementary

Firebase Auth REST API

Authenticates app users that connect their Fitbit account via OAuth

Use Firebase Auth for app-level identity while Fitbit OAuth handles wearable consent

Complementary

Firmwater LMS API

Triggers wellness training assignments based on Fitbit activity patterns

Pair when a corporate wellness programme uses Fitbit signals to enrol learners in Firmwater training

FAQs

Specific to using Fitbit Web API Explorer API through Jentic.

What authentication does the Fitbit Web API use?

Fitbit uses OAuth 2.0 with per-scope user consent (activity, heartrate, sleep, weight, etc.). Through Jentic, the access token and refresh token are held in the encrypted vault and the Authorization header is injected at execution time.

Can I get intraday heart rate with the Fitbit Web API?

Yes. Endpoints under /1/user/-/activities/heart/date/{date}/1d/{detail-level}.json return intraday heart rate at 1sec, 1min, 5min, or 15min granularity, subject to Fitbit approving your application for intraday access.

What are the rate limits for the Fitbit Web API?

Fitbit applies a default limit of 150 API calls per hour per user per app. The response includes Fitbit-Rate-Limit-Remaining and Retry-After headers. Higher limits require an application review.

How do I pull a sleep log through Jentic?

Search Jentic for 'get sleep log for a date', load the /1.2/user/-/sleep/date/{date}.json schema, and execute with the user's date. The response includes total minutes asleep, stages (deep, light, REM, wake), and per-stage durations.

Can the Fitbit Web API push events instead of polling?

Yes. Use the Subscriptions API (/1/user/-/{collection}/apiSubscriptions/{subscriptionId}.json) to register your endpoint; Fitbit will POST a notification when the user's activities, body, sleep, or food data changes, so you fetch only on update.

Does the Fitbit Web API expose ECG and irregular rhythm data?

Yes. ECG readings and Irregular Rhythm Notifications are exposed as separate tagged endpoints under the user namespace, suitable for cardiac risk dashboards once the user grants the appropriate scope.