Wearables
Apple Health Kit API
With the Apple Health Kit API you can connect to your health kit account and retrieve health data from your Apple Devices. Vital makes it easy to integrate with Apple health kit and retrieve health data.
Step 1
First steps to integrate with Apple HealthKit
Step 2
What data does Apple HealthKit provide?
All data from Apple HealthKit is provided in JSON format. Vital consists of three main schema types that it uses to push data to your webhook url. These schema types can be found here. You can filter these events to receive specific resource types, via webhook. The full list of available resources for Apple HealthKit can be found below.
activity
afib_burden
blood_oxygen
blood_pressure
body
body_temperature
body_temperature_delta
caffeine
calories_active
calories_basal
distance
electrocardiogram
electrocardiogram_voltage
fat
floors_climbed
glucose
heart_rate_alert
heartrate
hrv
hypnogram
meal
menstrual_cycle
mindfulness_minutes
profile
respiratory_rate
sleep
sleep_cycle
sleep_stream
steps
vo2_max
water
weight
workouts
Apple HealthKit Webhook Payloads
daily.data.activity.created
daily.data.afib_burden.created
daily.data.blood_oxygen.created
daily.data.blood_pressure.created
daily.data.body.created
daily.data.body_temperature.created
daily.data.body_temperature_delta.created
daily.data.caffeine.created
daily.data.calories_active.created
daily.data.calories_basal.created
daily.data.distance.created
daily.data.electrocardiogram.created
daily.data.electrocardiogram_voltage.created
daily.data.fat.created
daily.data.floors_climbed.created
daily.data.glucose.created
daily.data.heart_rate_alert.created
daily.data.heartrate.created
daily.data.hrv.created
daily.data.hypnogram.created
daily.data.meal.created
daily.data.menstrual_cycle.created
daily.data.mindfulness_minutes.created
daily.data.profile.created
daily.data.respiratory_rate.created
daily.data.sleep.created
daily.data.sleep_cycle.created
daily.data.steps.created
daily.data.vo2_max.created
daily.data.water.created
daily.data.weight.created
daily.data.workouts.created
historical.data.activity.created
historical.data.afib_burden.created
historical.data.blood_oxygen.created
historical.data.blood_pressure.created
historical.data.body.created
historical.data.body_temperature.created
historical.data.body_temperature_delta.created
historical.data.caffeine.created
historical.data.calories_active.created
historical.data.calories_basal.created
historical.data.distance.created
historical.data.electrocardiogram.created
historical.data.electrocardiogram_voltage.created
historical.data.fat.created
historical.data.floors_climbed.created
historical.data.glucose.created
historical.data.heart_rate_alert.created
historical.data.heartrate.created
historical.data.hrv.created
historical.data.hypnogram.created
historical.data.meal.created
historical.data.menstrual_cycle.created
historical.data.mindfulness_minutes.created
historical.data.profile.created
historical.data.respiratory_rate.created
historical.data.sleep.created
historical.data.sleep_cycle.created
historical.data.steps.created
historical.data.vo2_max.created
historical.data.water.created
historical.data.weight.created
historical.data.workouts.created
Step 3
Receiving Data via Webhooks
Apple HealthKit data is updated in real-time. Once a user connects their account, you will receive a webhook event with the data. You can also query the data via our API. New data in most cases for Apple HealthKit is provided in real-time. Vital guarantees all new data to be available within 15 mins of the data being recorded. A refresh for new Apple HealthKit data can also be requested via our refresh API.
View all Event Payloads
Step 4
Historical Harmonized Data
Apple HealthKit data is always standardized and harmonized using Vital's standardized schemas. This means you can query historical data for any user via HTTP requests and receive historical data prior to connecting devices using Vital. Full list of historical data and how much data is retrieved for Apple HealthKit can be found below.
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