HC Webhook
Health Metric

What is Total Calories?

Measured in: kcal

Total calories your body burned in a day — including your resting metabolism plus all movement.

Definition

What it measures

Total calories your body burned in a day — including your resting metabolism plus all movement.

Unit: kcal

Why Track It

Why it matters

Use total energy expenditure to calculate accurate calorie targets, balance intake against output, and track it alongside nutrition data.

Automations

What you can do with Total Calories data.

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

Net Calorie Calculator

Subtract food intake from total calories burned in n8n and log the result daily to a spreadsheet.

Calorie Budget Dashboard

Show total burn vs. intake on a Home Assistant dashboard to stay on track throughout the day.

Daily Summary Notification

Send a nightly notification with total calories burned and how it compares to your goal.

Weekly Energy Report

Average your daily total burn over the week and adjust your calorie targets accordingly.

Macro Planning Trigger

When total burn exceeds a threshold, trigger an n8n flow to remind you to eat more protein.

Airtable Health Log

Store total calories alongside sleep, steps, and weight in Airtable for a complete daily health record.

Data Format

What the JSON looks like.

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

{
  "timestamp": "2026-04-15T23:59:59Z",
  "total_calories": [
    {
      "kcal": 2340,
      "start_time": "2026-04-15T00:00:00Z",
      "end_time": "2026-04-15T23:59:59Z"
    }
  ]
}
How to Export

Get Total Calories out of Health Connect

Google Health Connect stores your total 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 Total Calories.

  2. 02

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

  3. 03

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

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Start tracking your Total Calories data.

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