Any chance a public API for Cronometer will be available?

LarsNyborgPedersen

I'm trying to do correlational analysis with my data from Cronometer and my data from other trackers, but it's just a pain to have to manually export the CSV each time.

Karen_Cronometer

Hi Lars,

We don't have this in our plans for this year. I'll pass along your request for future planning. Thanks for letting us know what would make Cronometer work better for you!

Best,

johnquirke2000

Are there any plans to link to Siri shortcuts?

Karen_Cronometer

Nothing in the works at the moment @johnquirke2000 though I will add your request to our list too!

Wonkers

Wouldn't count on this happening anytime soon. Chronometer doesn't seem to have the most advanced tech stack. Their killer feature seems to be having the most accurate dataset both in terms of nutrient details and accuracy (although not fully comprehensive). Hoping for a disrupter to emerge in the space and build on this concept with a more modern setup.

cause07

As a data-nerd user looking for an MFP alternative, this is the single biggest reason that is stopping me from coming over to Cronometer. Lack of API access to its members. urgh.

myazal

@Karen_Cronometer it seems like this has been requested across the forum for 5 years or so now. It's advertised that there's already an API access for Enterprise users, meaning not a lot of extra work is really needed. So, what's the issue giving Gold users access as well? Even for a few extra bucks.

Eli2399

Agreed, this is something that would make it so much better

michelleshu

Is there a solution for this available to Pro users? I've been manually downloading CSVs for my clients and would love to have an easier way to tackle this in batch as a health coach.

cc @Karen_Cronometer This is the only reason I am considering moving off Cronometer to another app like MFP for my clients. Can you please give an update as to whether API export functionality is on the roadmap?

Strix

Bumping for support, API access would be a game changer.

fl2334

Hi @Karen_Cronometer

Are there any plans this year to make a public API available?

It is critical to integrate with other services.

Thank you.

JonathanM

Adding this as a gamechanger. I can't get it added to our custom dashboards without it.

AnonJohn

+1. There are workarounds if you know how to code, but I would value it a lot if cronometer were to commit to keeping data open if not an actual API.

myazal

@AnonJohn I do use one of those workarounds, but why should I have to?

AnonJohn

@myazal - oh, for sure. Plus the workarounds will surely break inconveniently. APIs exist to standardize things so that they don't break when there are changes!

Byhomeyyz

This company is seriously the worst. I can’t wait to transfer my data elsewhere. They have no integrations that work, they are so proprietary with the data, I’ve told them many times what will happen and frankly they are already starting to see problems. I spoke with someone with inside knowledge of their tiny little setup, they are heading for some big bumps because they just aren’t listening. Good. They could be a lot more helpful but they just choose not to be and give their continuous “we’ll add this to our list” BS response when they have no intention of changing anything. Companies like that I relish when the **** hits the fan because they had every opportunity to do the right thing and it always comes back to hit them in the ends. Maybe not right now, but it always comes back. People don’t forget easily - it’s business karma.

alex_v

@Byhomeyzz they do have an API that Terra API has access to
Terra API is a paid service but Cronometer does have an API they share with select partners it seems

Kern392

It would be great if Cronometer made an API available. The competition, MyFitnessPal has stopped giving access to its API for quite some time now. A chance to win some customers over.

WelshProgrammer

Personal API access please. Want to integrate my fitness data with HomeAssistant for reminders and smart scale correlation data etc.