Sedentary Period: the Google Health API sedentary-period data type

Sedentary Period at a glance

From the Sedentary Period row of Google’s data-types table, joined to the discovery document’s DataPoint schema.

Display name

Sedentary Period

dataType (in endpoint URLs)

sedentary-period

filter parameter

sedentary_periodGoogle: “The identifier separated by underscores (for example, active_minutes) used as the value for the dataType filter parameter in daily rollup and rollup requests.”

Record type

Interval — Google: “Represents measurements recorded over a duration.”

Storage resolution

not stated in Google’s table

Webhook support

Yes · automatic-subscription token WEBHOOK_DATA_TYPE_SEDENTARY_PERIOD

True zeros support

Not marked in Google’s table

Channel

v4

DataPoint field

DataPoint.sedentaryPeriod → SedentaryPeriodIts description: “Optional. Data for points in the sedentary-period interval data type collection.”

Compatible devices

28 in Google’s table

Operations and request paths

The operations Google’s table lists for sedentary-period, each matched to its users.dataTypes.dataPoints method in the discovery document. The path is the documented path template (the method’s flatPath on https://health.googleapis.com/) with {dataTypesId} filled in as sedentary-period. Google on {user}: “The {user} can be either the alias me or the authenticated user's numeric Health User ID (retrieved via GetIdentity).”

Every method, and how many of the data types list it: the methods overview.

Scopes

The scopes Google’s table lists for sedentary-period, as full URLs, with the consent text Google’s Scopes page gives each. Every Google Health API scope.

Fields of Sedentary Period

The schema the discovery document gives DataPoint.sedentaryPeriod, required fields first. Types are as the discovery document states them; the label is the word Google’s description opens with. The schemas its fields refer to follow, one level deep.

Rollup fields

Fitbit Web API predecessor

Fitbit Web API scopes Google maps to sedentary-period’s scopes: activity, cardio_fitness.

Google’s full Fitbit Web API mapping tables · the migration playbook

Compatible devices

The 28 devices Google’s table lists as able to record and sync sedentary-period.

• Fitbit Air
• Fitbit Alta
• Fitbit Alta HR
• Fitbit Blaze
• Fitbit Charge 2
• Fitbit Charge 3
• Fitbit Charge 4
• Fitbit Charge 5
• Fitbit Charge 6
• Fitbit Flex 2
• Fitbit Inspire
• Fitbit Inspire 2
• Fitbit Inspire 3
• Fitbit Inspire HR
• Fitbit Ionic
• Fitbit Luxe
• Fitbit MobileTrack
• Pixel Watch
• Pixel Watch 2
• Pixel Watch 3
• Pixel Watch 4
• Fitbit Sense
• Fitbit Sense 2
• Fitbit Versa
• Fitbit Versa 2
• Fitbit Versa 3
• Fitbit Versa 4
• Fitbit Versa Lite