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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

	const puppeteer = require('puppeteer');

	(async () => {

	const browser = await puppeteer.launch();
	const page = await browser.newPage();
	// Adjustments particular to this page to ensure we hit desktop breakpoint.
	page.setViewport({width: 1000, height: 600, deviceScaleFactor: 1});

	await page.goto('https://www.chromestatus.com/samples', {waitUntil: 'networkidle'});

	# ASSUMES you want Python 2.7.5 as your system default

	cd /usr/bin
	sudo ln -sf /usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.5/bin/python python2.7
	sudo ln -sf /usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.5/bin/python-config python2.7-config
	sudo ln -sf /usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.5/bin/pythonw pythonw2.7
	sudo ln -sf python2.7 python
	sudo ln -sf pythonw2.7 pythonw
	sudo ln -sf python2.7-config python-config

	application: you-app-name-here
	version: 1
	runtime: python
	api_version: 1

	default_expiration: "30d"

	handlers:
	- url: /(.*\.(appcache\|manifest))
	mime_type: text/cache-manifest

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