Learn how to use the Health Graph API to build health & fitness apps. Take advantage of many partner sensors and data sources. Reach millions of passionate consumers using the Health Graph today!

1. Hacking 101
http://healthgraph.com

3. ● Fitness activities, but also...
● Your weight
● Number of steps you take each day
● What you eat, how much, and when
● How much and how well you sleep
● Blood glucose, hormones, other factors
Your health and fitness

4. ● The world needs an open platform for health
data portability
● It needs to be built upon Internet standard
technologies and be simple to integrate
● It needs to be inexpensive (or free!) so
everyone can participate
We need an open health platform

5. ● User control is paramount
● Enables health and fitness data portability
● Free partner storage and usage
Why the Health Graph platform

6. ● 22.5M+ users
● 110M+ activities containing 44B+ GPS
points
● 120+ partners publicly launched integrations
● Hundreds of private/internal integrations live
● Scaling nicely
○ Hundreds of millions of API calls per month
○ 10x weekly API call volume growth YoY
Why the Health Graph platform

7. Discovery Flow
● RunKeeper users connect to Health
Graph partners through app directory

8. Discovery Flow
● App detail pages allow users to find
and learn about apps

9. Discovery Flow
● Feed notification every time a user
connects an app to their account

10. Discovery Flow
● Attribution every time a user posts an
activity or measurement

11. Discovery Flow
● Partners suggested to users via
widgets throughout RunKeeper.com

12. Discovery Flow
● Partner channel via online store

13. ● Fitocracy
● Withings
● Stronger
● Earndit
● Run Calendar
● GymPact
● ShapeUp Club
● GAIN Fitness
● iSmoothRun
● Wahoo Fitness
● or choose your own!
Health Graph user favorite partners

14. Health Graph partners
● Write/read/edit health & fitness data in the
Health Graph cloud for free
● RESTful API for fitness activities and health
measurements
● Our most successful partners help users
improve their fitness in a fun, mobile,
rewarding way

15. Health Graph partners
● Free tech support
● Free cross-promotion assistance
● Revenue sharing via RunKeeper Elite
affiliate referrals and device sales channel

16. Access overview
● Access and API policies centered around
user control
● OAuth 2.0 authorization code flow
● Mechanism to retain data, with user
permission, after user disconnects your app
from their Health Graph account

17. API overview
● Enter the API via a GET of user resource
from https://api.runkeeper.com/user/
● From user, get access to profile, settings,
fitness activities (aka cardio), strength
training, sleep data, blood glucose and other
diabetes related information, a variety of
other body measurements, and more
● JSON responses (examples in tech docs)

18. Getting started
● Read tech and partner docs linked to from:
http://blog.healthgraph.com/about
● Register for API access
● Note callback, data retention, read and edit
permissions
● Start learning and prototyping via the
console: http://runkeeper.com/console
● Follow the best practices
● Take advantage of third party libraries

19. Test data options
● Create free RunKeeper.com account then
use free partner apps to generate data
● Create account then use friend tagging to
import data from an existing account
● Use Health Graph API writes to load data
from a user data export
● For details see Health Graph blog

20. Once your app is ready
● Go back to your Partner applications page
○ Verify app description, icon, other details
○ Be sure you've uploaded a hero graphic
○ Publish when everything's ready
● Note: Publishing makes your app publicly
visible in the RunKeeper apps directory so
do not do this until you are ready to launch!

21. Need help?
● Slides and more Health Graph blog
● Ask questions Health Graph discussion
group
● File issues via our support site
● Reach our team via @HealthGraphAPI,
Facebook, and Google+

22. Happy hacking!
http://healthgraph.com