Integrate Health Connect SDK for Periodic Health Data Export to HTTP Endpoints

[alireza-tabanasl]

Hi Roland,
Hope you're doing well. First off, thanks so much for making HTTP Shortcuts open-source and totally free—it's an amazing tool that's solved tons of problems for Android users, like automating HTTP requests with shortcuts. Your work is truly inspiring!
I have a feature suggestion that I think would fit perfectly with the app's current abilities for sending data via HTTP. Right now, health data on Android (via Health Connect) can't be easily sent to external spots. But if you could integrate the Health Connect SDK, users could read available data (like steps, heart rate, sleep, etc.) periodically (e.g., every hour or day) and send it to a specific HTTP endpoint. This is similar to what Home Assistant does with Health Connect—get permissions, query the data, and send it as JSON or in a custom format to a server.
It could be an optional feature (with settings for data types, send frequency, and endpoint) and only active for users who grant Health Connect access. If you consider adding this, it'd be a game-changer for folks like me who want to sync fitness data to personal servers.
Thanks for your time—looking forward to future updates! Happy to share more details if needed.

[Waboodoo]

Hi,
This sounds like a great idea in general, but I don't think HTTP Shortcuts is the right app for this. It would introduce a lot of complexity and dependencies, while having only marginally to do with sending HTTP requests. I believe this would be a better fit for a more general purpose automation app, such as Tasker or Macrodroid, or in combination with those. Or it could be a separate app, which integrates with HTTP Shortcuts or do the HTTP stuff.

I am aware that the HTTP Shortcuts app already contains a lot of functionality that isn't about HTTP at all. I'm trying to keep that to a limit. Especially if new features would require integrating new SDKs or requiring new permissions, as that can quickly bloat up the app, scare away users or make it hard to keep up with updates of those SDKs.

Also, as you can guess from my late reply, I don't have so much time right now to work on this project, so I try to focus on smaller features or those beneficial to the most users.