Access your meal tracking data stored in MyFitnessPal programatically
Is it possible to upload to my myfitnesspal account? I'd love to be able to add entires via my own CLI and sync/upload them to my account
I see this was discussion june of 2017, but maybe there's been a development? https://developer.underarmour.com/docs-mpf/diary-post/ seems to have the specification
Unfortunately, you can't get an API key unless you're a "partner" of theirs, @dmlerner -- https://www.myfitnesspal.com/api , so their API docs are no indication of what can be accomplished
Hi - Here is an approach that lets you scrape ALL nutrient data from the MFP website: https://josetorres.us/data-science/scraping-myfitnesspal-with-python/
The key is that each nutrient has a convenient, parsable website associated with it. e.g.: https://www.myfitnesspal.com/reports/results/nutrition/Fiber/1 .... the one at the end refers to the number of days. Hope this is useful to someone!
@coddingtonbear
Ok I got it guys. I will write it just in case anyone ends up in this gitter for the same:
In order to obtain the goals you just have to retrieve any day worth of data with something like:day = client.get_date(2019, 11, 23)
Then you can just get the goals via:day.goals
That's roughly the situation we're all in! Generally, we require that submitted features have at least basic documentation, but it's a little difficult to justify setting a high bar for documentation when folks are working for free to build a tool that might be useful to people like us.
I'm currently playing around with using it to add food entries
I'm not however a web developer and I think i'm making some stupid mistakes re HTTP requests
so it seems that the /food/add url is the following
Request URL: https://www.myfitnesspal.com/food/add
Some example params are
Form data:
food_entry[food_id]: 917964335
food_entry[date]: 2020-02-05
food_entry[quantity]: 1.0
food_entry[weight_id]: 1128024684
food_entry[meal_id]: 1
ajax: true
food_entry[food_id]: 917964335
food_entry[date]: 2020-02-05
food_entry[quantity]: 1.0
food_entry[weight_id]: 1128024684
food_entry[meal_id]: 1
ajax: true
I'm doing something like this
data = {'food_entry[food_id]': 917964335,'food_entry[date]' : '2020-02-05', 'food_entry[quantity]' : 1.0, 'food_entry[weight_id]' : 1128024684, 'food_entry[meal_id]' : 1, 'ajax' : 'true'}
res = client.session.post('https://www.myfitnesspal.com/food/add/', data=data)
I was following how posts are made to add weight
I also tried adding the following
data['authenticity_token'] = client._authenticity_token
data['authenticity_token'] = client._authenticity_token
Am I doing something stupid here
Not a python or a web developer but if I can get this working I'm happy to contribute back
Once again thanks for all the good work!
Hi! I'm wondering if there is a way to pull the 'Fitbit body fat %' measurement from myfitnesspal? Your wiki states "The first argument specifies the measurement name, which can be any name listed in the MyFitnessPal Check-In page" but "client.get_measurements('Fitbit body fat %')" won't work, since the measurement does not exist.
Is it possible to use this for adding data? Id like to add my weight programatically.
In case Im a little unclear: My goal would be to submit data using python. Syncing would be one big benefit.
~$ myfitnesspal store-password ironlion27
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/nerio/.local/bin/myfitnesspal", line 7, in <module>
from myfitnesspal.cmdline import main
File "/home/nerio/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/myfitnesspal/init.py", line 1, in <module>
from myfitnesspal.client import Client # noqa
File "/home/nerio/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/myfitnesspal/client.py", line 7, in <module>
from measurement.measures import Energy, Weight, Volume
File "/home/nerio/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/measurement/measures/init.py", line 1, in <module>
from measurement.measures.distance import
File "/home/nerio/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/measurement/measures/distance.py", line 147
*{
^
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/nerio/.local/bin/myfitnesspal", line 7, in <module>
from myfitnesspal.cmdline import main
File "/home/nerio/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/myfitnesspal/init.py", line 1, in <module>
from myfitnesspal.client import Client # noqa
File "/home/nerio/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/myfitnesspal/client.py", line 7, in <module>
from measurement.measures import Energy, Weight, Volume
File "/home/nerio/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/measurement/measures/init.py", line 1, in <module>
from measurement.measures.distance import
File "/home/nerio/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/measurement/measures/distance.py", line 147
*{
^
not sure where to go from here
@ironlion27 -- this library requires Python 3+; you appear to be using python 2.7