Body Battery: Why no longer able to export data as a CSV?

4241049 said:

Does anyone know a work-around for this bug?

The only way I am aware of (besides contacting the Support and requesting a fix) is using the JSON data feeding the graph. You can access it with the DevTools of your browser (F12). On the Network tab look for the stream with the name in the form of the concerned date.

... well, there is another option - you can export all daily data in the original format (FIT files) from the Daily Summary page of Garmin Connect Web. It includes Body Battery data too. See the cogwheel icon at the top right of that page, for the export.

Thanks for your replies. I already contacted Customer Support who were the ones that told me the structure of the page had been changed and the ability to export the data was removed. I've no real idea if Garmin do this to "obsolete" products periodically but it doesn't encourage me to buy anything else from them: a shame because the Forerunner has been pretty good for the two years I've used it.

Exporting from the Daily Summary page of Garmin Connect Web is not possible (as of today). The cogwheel icon only offers to configure the layout (to manually change the sort order).

Yes, it is possible to export data with this unofficial workaround. But the functionality is not like asked in the original post ("export data as a CSV"). It's not possible to consistently export health data in an end user friendly and readable format like CSV (yes, for most developers CSV seems like an outdated format). Garmin offers export to CSV for all activities (you may even page through to download for several years in one file). But for health stats one has to workaround with FIT files or has to download separate CSV files if possible (like sleep), while for most data types it's not possible (like pulsoximeter, stress, body battery, HFV).

There is no consistent export strategy for end users who don't want to use several tools, to convert file formats and to script. Not for nothing is the documentation of the FIT files from Garmin on their developer website where they offer their SDK in several programming languages. 

For end users, CSV files and some proprietary formats such as Excel are usually the only way to merge data from different sources and make evaluations and derivations (for example, to uncover relationships between weight, blood pressure, exercise, diet, sleep and find possible causalities).

Unfortunately, we cannot help you with that, here on the user forum. As already stated previously in this thread, you will need to contact Garmin's Support, and request the fix. Here, on the forum, we can only offer you workarounds.

Thanks. It was more out of a frustration, that I responded in this detailed fashion. Sorry for that. It helped me to collect my thoughts. I will use it to contact support and also write a blog article.