xuy / divvy2fitbit

Converts your divvy bike trips to fitbit activities

divvy2fitbit

Divvy2fitbit converts your divvy bike trips to fitbit biking activities.

It reads your trip information from Divvy (including date, source and destination stations, and duration), and employs the Google Maps API to calculate the cycling distance of the trip. It then converts the trip into a "biking" activity and uploads it to fitbit using their API.

Note: right now Divvy does not offer exact times for trips, so we log these activity at 5:00pm. You can edit the starting time in fitbit, or change the time to something else. I have nagged the Divvy developers many times for this...

Prerequisites

divvy2fitbit depends on the following python packages:

• bs4 (for HTML parsing)
• json (for JSON object parsing)
• mechanize (for HTTP interacting)
• fitbit (for fitbit interacting)

For the fitbit package, you will have to download the source code from my fork, because right now the official version does not support activity logging.

Once you have python-fitbit installed, run

fitbit/gather_keys_cli.py 65d8b86c275e4236a93a265dce3d86b2 752b2671061c4ba3b2f7c7dd8fc26eba

under the python-fitbit directory. This will authorize divvy2fitbit to update your activity data. Once the authorization is done, you will get a user_key and a user_secert. You will need them in the next step.

Now, you are ready to create a file called config.json under the divvy2fitbit directory. The structure of the file should look like this:

{
    "divvy": {
        "User Name":"Your Divvy User Name",
        "Password":"Your Divvy Password"
},
    "fitbit": {
        "consumer_key" : "65d8b86c275e4236a93a265dce3d86b2",
        "consumer_secret" : "752b2671061c4ba3b2f7c7dd8fc26eba",
        "user_key" : "You need to authorize divvy2fitbit to modify your data on your behalf",
        "user_secret" : "You need to authorize divvy2fitbit "
    }
}

Obviously, you will need to fill in the User Name and Password fields to get trips informaton from Divvy. You will also need the user_key and user_secret pair generated from the last step.

Once you have the file ready, just run

python divvy2fitbit.py

After it is done processing, you will see those activities in fitbit. Hooray!