Get Nutrition Time Series by Date
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Get Nutrition Time Series by Date

Retrieves the food and water consumption data for a given resource over a period of time by specifying a date and time period. The response will include only the daily summary values.

Scope: nutrition

Request

GET /1/user/[user-id]/foods/log/[resource]/date/[date]/[period].json

URI Arguments
user-id required The encoded ID of the user. Use "-" (dash) for current logged-in user.
resource required The resource of the data to be returned.
Supported: caloriesIn | water
date required The end date of the period specified in the format yyyy-MM-dd or today.
period required The range for which data will be returned.

Supported: 1d | 7d | 30d | 1w | 1m | 3m | 6m | 1y

Request Headers
authorization required Specify the token type and Fitbit user’s access token.
Token type: Bearer
accept optional The media type of the response content the client is expecting.
Supported: application/json
accept-language optional The measurement unit system to use for response values. See Localization.
accept-locale optional The locale to use for response values. See Localization.

Examples
GET https://api.fitbit.com/1/user/-/foods/log/water/date/today/7d.json
GET https://api.fitbit.com/1/user/GGNJL9/foods/log/water/date/today/7d.json
curl -X GET "https://api.fitbit.com/1/user/-/foods/log/water/date/today/7d.json" \
-H "accept: application/json" \
-H "authorization: Bearer <access_token>"

Response

Element Name Description
foods-log- : dateTime The date representing the daily summary value of the resource.
foods-log- : value The total daily consumption for the resource. 
{
  "foods-log-water": [
    {
      "dateTime": "2019-03-15",
      "value": "0.0"
    },
    {
      "dateTime": "2019-03-16",
      "value": "0.0"
    },
    {
      "dateTime": "2019-03-17",
      "value": "0.0"
    },
    {
      "dateTime": "2019-03-18",
      "value": "0.0"
    },
    {
      "dateTime": "2019-03-19",
      "value": "0.0"
    },
    {
      "dateTime": "2019-03-20",
      "value": "0.0"
    },
    {
      "dateTime": "2019-03-21",
      "value": "1892.7099609375"
    }
  ]
}

Response Headers
content-type The media type of the response content being sent to the client.
Supported: application/json
fitbit-rate-limit-limit The quota number of calls.
fitbit-rate-limit-remaining The number of calls remaining before hitting the rate limit.
fitbit-rate-limit-reset The number of seconds until the rate limit resets.
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
HTTP Status Code HTTP response code. List of codes are found in the Troubleshooting Guide.
Status Message Description of the status code.
Response Body Contains the JSON response to the API call. When errors are returned by the API call, the errorType, fieldName and message text will provide more information to the cause of the failure.

Response Codes
200 A successful request.
400 The request had bad syntax or was inherently impossible to be satisfied.
401 The request requires user authentication.
Note: For a complete list of response codes, please refer to the Troubleshooting Guide.

Additional Information

The data will be returned in the format requested using the units in the unit system that corresponds to the Accept-Language header provided.

Note: If you provided earlier dates in the request, the response will retrieve only data since the user's join date or the first log entry date for the requested collection.

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