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fitbit-dump

Fitbit has my sleep, my heart rate, my steps, my resting variability. They let me see it through an app. They do not really let me have it.

fitbit-dump is a small Python CLI that uses the official API to pull the raw JSON — all of it, incrementally — and drop it on my disk where it belongs. The original repo had accumulated too much: a phone companion, a Wear OS app, an HTML report with charts, phase tracking. For the open-source release I’m cutting it down to the bone: setup, sync, discover, status, reset, logout. Six commands. No dashboard. No analytics. Just the dump.

Strip the secrets, remove the personal data, write a real README, ship it. Someone else is going to want the same escape hatch.