HC Webhook
Health Metric

What is Active Calories?

Measured in: kcal

Calories you burned through movement and exercise, not counting your resting metabolism.

Definition

What it measures

Calories you burned through movement and exercise, not counting your resting metabolism.

Unit: kcal

Why Track It

Why it matters

Compare calories burned against food intake, track workout intensity over time, and feed data into nutrition or fitness workflows.

Automations

What you can do with Active Calories data.

HC Webhook sends active calories readings to any webhook — here are ideas to get you started.

Calorie Burn to Google Sheets

Log daily active calories alongside food intake data to calculate your net balance.

Workout Intensity Trend

Chart weekly active calorie totals in Grafana to see if your training load is increasing.

Daily Burn Notification

Send yourself a push notification each evening with your total active calories for the day.

n8n Nutrition Workflow

Combine active calories with nutrition data in n8n to calculate net calories and log it to Airtable.

Goal Progress Alert

Send an alert when you have hit your target active calorie goal for the day.

Weekly Effort Report

Sum active calories for the week and send a Monday summary showing your busiest and lightest days.

Data Format

What the JSON looks like.

HC Webhook posts a JSON object containing a active_calories array to your endpoint on every sync.

{
  "timestamp": "2026-04-15T23:59:59Z",
  "active_calories": [
    {
      "kcal": 487,
      "start_time": "2026-04-15T00:00:00Z",
      "end_time": "2026-04-15T23:59:59Z"
    }
  ]
}
How to Export

Get Active Calories out of Health Connect

Google Health Connect stores your active calories data from compatible apps (Samsung Health, Fitbit, Garmin, and more). HC Webhook reads that data on a schedule you set and forwards it as JSON to any URL you add — n8n, Home Assistant, Zapier, or your own API.

  1. 01

    Install HC Webhook and grant Health Connect permission for Active Calories.

  2. 02

    Paste your webhook URL — Home Assistant, n8n, Zapier, or any endpoint.

  3. 03

    Set your sync schedule. Active Calories readings arrive automatically, every time.

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Start tracking your Active Calories data.

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