Food, Health & Nature

Calories Burned API

Estimate energy burned for any activity from MET values, tuned to body weight and duration.

Request Headers

Name Required Description
X-RapidAPI-Key required Your RapidAPI key. Get one free.
X-RapidAPI-Host required calories-burned.p.rapidapi.com

Endpoints

GET /v1/health/caloriesburned

Estimate calories burned for an activity by MET value

Parameters

NameTypeRequiredDefaultConstraints
activitystringrequired—matches \S
minutesintegeroptional—1-1440
weightnumberoptional—30-300

Code Examples

curl --request GET \
  --url 'https://calories-burned.p.rapidapi.com/v1/health/caloriesburned?activity=example' \
  --header 'x-rapidapi-key: YOUR_API_KEY' \
  --header 'x-rapidapi-host: calories-burned.p.rapidapi.com'

Interactive Example

calories-burned
$ GET /v1/health/caloriesburned?activity=running&weight=70&minutes=30
{"data":[{"activity":"running, 8 km/h","met":8.3,"calories_per_hour":610.1,"total_calories":305.0}],"meta":{"total":1,"limit":1,"offset":0}}

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