APIs for QS tracking in general (not just health)?

[Stian Håklev]

Hey all,

I came here from quantifiedself.org where I posted on the forums asking for APIs and programming support for people wanting to hack QS applications. I've been playing around with a simple time tracker myself, http://reganmian.net/blog/2013/03/18/more-thoughts-on-quantified-self-tracking-and-visualizing/, and am both thinking about how to visualize this in R, and what kind of data formats to write, etc, but also about pulling in more data from different sources, both things I log explicitly, and things I can grab automatically. Some of this is a bit related to health, like exercise data, perhaps nutrition etc, but much will not be (I'm more focused on productivity and time use), for example Kindle reading stats, GMail email written/read etc, PDFs read in Skim and my open academic workflow (http://reganmian.net/wiki/researchr:start). So I was just wondering if you knew about a community where that kind of stuff would be welcome, or if I should just document my stuff here for now (for example, I already came across a way to grab time read/pages read per day etc from a Kindle, as well as getting detailed stats from GMail today through some surfing - seems a shame to not document that somewhere centrally).

Anyway, I already really appreciate what you guys are doing here... I'd love to eventually see some kind of framework for building QS apps with a bunch of "drop-in" plugins for fitbit, fitocracy, Chrome tabs, GMail whatever, with a common data storage, visualization etc... 

Stian

[Önder Vincent Koç]

I have been working with a few people from QS.... i am a marketing developer dealing with analytics on a day to day basis and ever since i have been addicted to Fitbit i found QS. If you can create unified data points to map data from any input API using a messaging system. I.e. Fitness, Food, Date/Diary, Spend etc then additional output models like R, Datavis, SQL, even iCal can be created.

If this is something you want to get started on please back to me.... as a framework for this would be a lovley thing for the community!

Thanks

Vincent

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[Stian Håklev]

Hi Onder,

I'm just a hobby hacker, and although I make everything I do public, it's not necessarily of a quality that makes it easy to build on. I'll also try to document as I find open APIs etc. I was very happy to find a nice Ruby script that processes Google Chrome history database. For now, I'm using it to build a tool that let's me quickly add links to documents based on the idea that things I link to are probably things I recently visited (https://github.com/houshuang/linkify), but I plan to also grab statistics from this for my tracking.

Stian

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