myfitnesspal-minder

Synchronize beeminder data points with entered meals on MyFitnessPal. It looks at breakfast, lunch and dinner and enters "1" if it has any entry. This way, a goal with 3 "meals" per day should properly motivate to always file meals.

The Simplest Thing that Could Possible Work

Prerequisites:

• Docker installed and running.

• Create a new "Do More" goal with 3 meals/day at https://www.beeminder.com/new and call it "mfp-meals".

• Get your auth token by visiting (need to be logged in): https://www.beeminder.com/api/v1/auth_token.json

• Copy the .env.template file to .env and fill in the variables.

  make dev

The dev target creates a Docker image and runs it in dev mode, meaning the source directory is mounted inside the container. So, any changes will be reflected - just run make run-dev afterwards, no need to build the image again.

Deploy to Heroku

Create a heroku account, then:

heroku login
heroku create
heroku config:set MFP_USERNAME=email@address.com
heroku config:set MFP_PASSWORD=xyz..
heroku config:set BM_USERNAME=username
heroku config:set BM_AUTH_TOKEN=auth-token
heroku config:set BM_GOAL=mfp-meals

Deploy the app:

git push heroku master

Look at the logs:

heroku logs --tail

Then, open the scheduler add-on:

heroku addons:open scheduler

And create a new job with the command: python bin/myfitnesspal-minder and a frequency of hourly.

Thanks

Derived from katrielalex's script: https://gist.github.com/katrielalex/6302010eaf3fb5d25359