Michael McGarrah mcgarrah

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Install this globally. Yes, globally.

$ npm install -g scrape-html

Now create a local project somewhere:

Top Six Things You Need To Know About The Withings API*

*where “you” is probably a developer, or at least a strange user

I should preface this by saying that I got a Withings Smart Body Analyzer for Christmas last year and I’ve been generally happy with it. It purports to be able to take my heart rate through my bare feet and that seems not to work for my physiology, but overall I’m a fan. If if their Wikipedia page is to be believed they are having a pretty rad impact on making the Quantified Self movement more for normal people and they only have 20 full time employees. Also they try hard to use SI units, which I can get behind. Anyway, on to the rant.

I originally called this post “Everything wrong with the Withings API” and I meant it. For every useful field I can extract from their “award winning” app, I have spent an hour screaming at the inconsistencies in their implementation or inexplicable holes in their data

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	# Took this:
	# https://s3.amazonaws.com/awsiammedia/public/sample/SAMLAPICLIADFS/samlapi_formauth_adfs3.py
	# converted to boto3 and smooshed it together with this:
	# https://gist.github.com/kapilt/ac8e222081f63ba64e93
	# which gave birth too this:

	import sys
	import botocore
	import boto3
	import requests