C# integration with Garmin Connect

[martinza78]

We were looking for a solution to taking and analysing information posted to Garmin connect for a project. Garmin have not released any sort of web service interface for garmin connect so quite a challenge to get that information. Listed below is the C# code (still a bit rough) that logs in to Garmin and uses the activity-search rest services to receive information:

Login Method:

private CookieContainer LoginGRMN(string loginURL,string userName,string password)
{
CookieContainer cookiJar = new CookieContainer();
string loginResponse = "";
try
{
HttpWebRequest getLogin = (HttpWebRequest)HttpWebRequest.Create(loginURL.Replace("https://", "http://"));
getLogin.Method = "GET";
getLogin.CookieContainer = cookiJar;
getLogin.KeepAlive = true;
var getLoginResp = getLogin.GetResponse();

HttpWebRequest httpRequest = (HttpWebRequest)HttpWebRequest.Create(loginURL);
httpRequest.Method = "POST";
httpRequest.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded";
httpRequest.CookieContainer = cookiJar;
httpRequest.KeepAlive = true;

string formData = string.Format("login=login&login%3AloginUsernameField={0}&login%3Apassword={1}&login%3AsignInButton= Sign+In&login%3ArememberMe=false&javax.faces.ViewState=j_id1", HttpUtility.UrlEncode(userName), HttpUtility.UrlEncode(password));

byte[] bytedata = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(formData);
httpRequest.ContentLength = bytedata.Length;
Stream requestStream = httpRequest.GetRequestStream();
requestStream.Write(bytedata, 0, bytedata.Length);
requestStream.Flush();
requestStream.Close();

HttpWebResponse logResponse = (HttpWebResponse)httpRequest.GetResponse();

Encoding enc = System.Text.Encoding.GetEncoding(1252);
StreamReader loResponseStream = new
StreamReader(logResponse.GetResponseStream(), enc);

loginResponse= loResponseStream.ReadToEnd();
}
catch (Exception exp)
{
throw new Exception("Error connecting to Garmin Connect for login", exp);
}
if (loginResponse.Contains("login:loginUsernameField"))
{
throw new Exception("Error logging in to Garmin Connect");
}


return cookiJar;
}

Search activities method using the JSON response:


public List<Domain.IntegrationActivity> SearchActivities(Domain.ActivitySearchDetails activitySearch)
{
//login to Garmin Connect
var cookiJar= LoginGRMN(activitySearch.LoginURL, activitySearch.Username, activitySearch.Password);

//load activities
string url = activitySearch.ActionURL + "?beginTimestamp>" + activitySearch.FromDate.ToString("s");
HttpWebRequest req = (HttpWebRequest)HttpWebRequest.Create(url);

req.CookieContainer = cookiJar;
req.Method = "GET";
var grmnResponse = req.GetResponse();

Encoding enc = System.Text.Encoding.GetEncoding(1252);
StreamReader loResponseStream = new
StreamReader(grmnResponse.GetResponseStream(), enc);

string grmnXML = loResponseStream.ReadToEnd();

//deserialize the JSON response
var reader = new JsonReader();
dynamic output = reader.Read(grmnXML);

if (!PropertyExists("results",output))
{
throw new Exception("Error on Garmin Json response");
}

//return object
List<Domain.IntegrationActivity> returnAct = new List<Domain.IntegrationActivity>();
foreach (dynamic activity in output.results.activities)
{
DateTime captureDate = DateTime.Parse(activity.activity.uploadDate.display);


Domain.IntegrationActivity retActivity = new Domain.IntegrationActivity()
{
ActivityReference = activity.activity.activityId,
CaptureDate =captureDate,
Calories = PropertyExists("activitySummarySumEnergy", activity.activity) ? int.Parse(activity.activity.activitySummarySumEnergy.display) : 0,
StartTime =PropertyExists("activitySummaryBeginTimestamp", activity.activity)? DateTime.Parse(activity.activity.activitySummaryBeginTimestamp.display): new DateTime(captureDate.Year,captureDate.Month,captureDate.Day,0,0,0),
EndTime = PropertyExists("activitySummaryEndTimestamp", activity.activity) ? DateTime.Parse(activity.activity.activitySummaryEndTimestamp.display) : new DateTime(captureDate.Year, captureDate.Month, captureDate.Day, 0, 0, 0),
Factors = new List<Domain.ActivityFactor>()
};

//ADD other factors
retActivity.Factors.Add(new Domain.ActivityFactor() { Name = "ActivityName", Value = PropertyExists("activityName",activity.activity)?activity.activity.activityName.value:"" });
retActivity.Factors.Add(new Domain.ActivityFactor() { Name = "ActivityType", Value = PropertyExists("activityType", activity.activity) ? activity.activity.activityType.display : "" });
retActivity.Factors.Add(new Domain.ActivityFactor() { Name = "Distance", Value = PropertyExists("activitySummarySumDistance", activity.activity) ? activity.activity.activitySummarySumDistance.value : "0" });
retActivity.Factors.Add(new Domain.ActivityFactor() { Name = "Duration", Value = PropertyExists("activitySummarySumDuration", activity.activity) ? activity.activity.activitySummarySumDuration.minutesSeconds : "0" });
retActivity.Factors.Add(new Domain.ActivityFactor() { Name = "AverageSpeed", Value = PropertyExists("activitySummaryWeightedMeanSpeed", activity.activity) ? activity.activity.activitySummaryWeightedMeanSpeed.withUnitAbbr : "0" });
retActivity.Factors.Add(new Domain.ActivityFactor() { Name = "MaxHeartRate", Value = PropertyExists("activitySummaryMaxHeartRate", activity.activity) ? activity.activity.activitySummaryMaxHeartRate.value : "0" });
retActivity.Factors.Add(new Domain.ActivityFactor() { Name = "MinHeartRate", Value = PropertyExists("activitySummaryMinHeartRate", activity.activity) ? activity.activity.activitySummaryMinHeartRate.value : "0" });
retActivity.Factors.Add(new Domain.ActivityFactor() { Name = "AverageHeartRate", Value = PropertyExists("activitySummaryWeightedMeanHeartRate", activity.activity) ? activity.activity.activitySummaryWeightedMeanHeartRate.value : "0" });




returnAct.Add(retActivity);

}


return returnAct;
}


private bool PropertyExists(string name,ExpandoObject obj)
{
return((IDictionary<String, Object>)obj).ContainsKey(name);
}


Hope this helps someone

Sincerely

Martin Naude

[CYCLOCOMMUTER]

Interesting, thanks for posting. Am I right to assume your project references the DLLs in Garmin's API? I downloaded the API months ago but haven't had the chance to use it yet.

For my personal project (also written in C#), I just export and use the TCX file and use this as my input data source.

[ADAMMENDOZA]

please send me your code

would you mind sharing your project file?
email me to adammendoza => hotmail

thanks!

[djacobson.garmin]

With full credit to Martin Naude and his generous code sample above, I created a more complete utility based on it, which I've made public (and I plan to share the source code on GitHub for those interested). In the mean-time, I've described it on my blog:

Garcon Utility

David Jacobson

[bvanderheijden]

Thanks for this nice coding sample

Thanks for sharing this sample. Trying to integrate this into my own test app I bumped into two (newbie) questions.

1) What's this actionURL used?
2) Where does the Domain.IntegrationActivity come from? I can't seem to find this class anywhere.

Thanks in advance,
Bart

[Anusha]

Hello,
I want to get client garmin device data from health api using c# application. I try to use garmin connect dll but it did not worked. Also I have created a method to get request token as described in api document but I am getting error method not allowed even its POST request.

Please suggest or provide some reference code in order to retrieve data.

Thanks,

[QQSTARS]

Hello,
I want to get client garmin device data from health api using c# application. I try to use garmin connect dll but it did not worked. Also I have created a method to get request token as described in api document but I am getting error method not allowed even its POST request.

Please suggest or provide some reference code in order to retrieve data.

Thanks,

Currently the Connect REST API based on OAuth. So the way this thread mentioned are no more valid unless you have your own token and your customized POST/GET based on OAuth.