Owning my Garmin data

Over the last month, I took some time to build a tiny WordPress plugin that fetches data from my Garmin Connect platform and displays it on my website. Currently the workflow only pulls activity data from the platform - which was my focus for this month. With modifications to the python script, I think this can be extended further to fetch any type of data from the platform. Here’s a rundown of the publishing workflow so far: ...

May 29, 2021 · 2 min · 340 words · Srikanth Perinkulam

May 7, 2021 14:31

Earlier this week, I came across this nifty python tool that lets you backup all your garmin data from the Garmin-Connect platform. I wrote a crude WordPress plugin to parse the json files over and display the data on my website here. The tool is kind of unstable because it essentially ‘mimics’ a regular Garmin-connect login and download. Also probably the reason why there aren’t many functional plugins for Garmin on wordpress. ...

May 8, 2021 · 1 min · 130 words · Srikanth Perinkulam