Waistline API

External data collection service from Waistline.
This API is designed to receive data from the app thanks to the "Data sharing" feature.

It's built with Symfony, Postgres, and MongoDB.

I created this service to centralize all my statistics from Waistline and be able to consult my data from an API endpoint.
This endpoint allows me to visualize my stats in a Grafana dashboard.

Links

• Documentation — Learn how to use Waistline API
• Docker Hub — Find all docker images

Installation

Docker Compose [Recommended]

Step 1 - Download the required files

Create a directory of your choice (e.g. ./waistline-api) to hold the docker-compose.yml and .env.local files.

mkdir waistline-api
cd ./waistline-api

Download docker-compose.yml and .env by running the following commands:

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hippothomas/waistline-api/master/docker-compose.yml

wget -O .env.local https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hippothomas/waistline-api/master/.env

Step 2 - Populate the .env file with custom values

You should change these values for security reason:

APP_ENV= # Set it to "prod"
APP_SECRET= # You should generate a new app secret
APP_BASE_URL= # The url of the app (without the ending /)
DATABASE_URL= # Your database connection string
MONGODB_URL= # Your mongodb connection string

You should also change the values in consequence in the docker-compose.yml.

Step 3 - Start the containers

From the directory you created in Step 1, run:

docker compose up -d

Step 4 - Execute migrations

Once the containers are up and running, you may have to execute these commands to instantiate the database and reset the cache:

docker exec -it waistline-api /bin/sh
php bin/console doctrine:migrations:migrate --quiet
php bin/console cache:clear --quiet
exit

Contributing

Contributions, suggestions, bug reports and fixes are welcome!

For new features, filters, or endpoints, please open an issue and discuss before sending a PR.

License

See the LICENSE file for license rights and limitations (MIT).