oura-setup

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Connect an Oura Ring via OAuth2 — app registration, token exchange, and credential storage

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Oura Ring Integration

Connect the user's Oura Ring to pull sleep, heart rate, readiness, activity, and other health data via the Oura Cloud API V2.

Prerequisites

An Oura Ring (Gen 3 or Ring 4) with an active Oura Membership ($6/mo required for API access)
The Oura app installed and paired with the ring
An Oura Cloud account at https://cloud.ouraring.com

Setup

1. Register a Developer Application

Have the user go to https://developer.ouraring.com/applications and create a new application:

Display Name: The user's preferred name for the integration
Description: Brief description of the integration
Contact Email: User's email
Website: Any valid URL (e.g. a personal website)
Privacy Policy / Terms of Service: Any valid URLs (required fields, not enforced for personal apps)
Redirect URIs: http://localhost:3000/callback
Scopes: Enable all scopes needed. Recommended: personal, daily, heartrate, sleep, workout, spo2, stress, heart_health, session, ring_configuration

Save the Client ID and Client Secret.

2. Run the OAuth Flow

Store the client secret securely using assistant credentials prompt, then write and run the OAuth helper script on the user's machine:

#!/usr/bin/env python3
"""Oura Ring OAuth2 helper — catches auth code and exchanges for tokens instantly."""
from http.server import HTTPServer, BaseHTTPRequestHandler
from urllib.parse import urlparse, parse_qs, urlencode
import urllib.request, json, webbrowser, ssl

CLIENT_ID = 'YOUR_CLIENT_ID'
CLIENT_SECRET = 'YOUR_CLIENT_SECRET'
REDIRECT_URI = 'http://localhost:3000/callback'
SCOPES = 'email personal daily heartrate workout tag session spo2 ring_configuration stress heart_health'

class Handler(BaseHTTPRequestHandler):
    def do_GET(self):
        parsed = urlparse(self.path)
        if parsed.path == '/':
            params = urlencode({
                'response_type': 'code', 'client_id': CLIENT_ID,
                'redirect_uri': REDIRECT_URI, 'scope': SCOPES, 'state': 'assistant'
            })
            self.send_response(302)
            self.send_header('Location', f'https://cloud.ouraring.com/oauth/authorize?{params}')
            self.end_headers()
        elif parsed.path == '/callback':
            code = parse_qs(parsed.query).get('code', [''])[0]
            if code:
                token_data = urlencode({
                    'grant_type': 'authorization_code', 'code': code,
                    'redirect_uri': REDIRECT_URI, 'client_id': CLIENT_ID,
                    'client_secret': CLIENT_SECRET,
                }).encode()
                try:
                    req = urllib.request.Request('https://api.ouraring.com/oauth/token',
                        data=token_data,
                        headers={'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'},
                        method='POST')
                    resp = urllib.request.urlopen(req, context=ssl.create_default_context())
                    result = json.loads(resp.read())
                    with open('/tmp/oura_tokens.json', 'w') as f:
                        json.dump(result, f, indent=2)
                    self.send_response(200)
                    self.send_header('Content-Type', 'text/html')
                    self.end_headers()
                    self.wfile.write(b'<html><body><h1>Connected! You can close this tab.</h1></body></html>')
                    print(f'\nTokens saved to /tmp/oura_tokens.json')
                except Exception as e:
                    self.send_response(500)
                    self.end_headers()
                    self.wfile.write(f'Token exchange failed: {e}'.encode())
    def log_message(self, *a): pass

print('Opening browser for Oura authorization...')
webbrowser.open('http://localhost:3000')
HTTPServer(('localhost', 3000), Handler).serve_forever()

Run with python3 /path/to/script.py on the user's machine (host_bash). The user authorizes in their browser, the script catches the code and exchanges it for tokens in under a second.

Important: Auth codes expire in ~30 seconds. Do NOT have the user paste codes manually — use this script to catch and exchange them automatically.

3. Store Tokens

After the OAuth flow, read tokens from /tmp/oura_tokens.json and store them:

access_token — store in credential vault with injection template for api.ouraring.com Authorization header (Bearer prefix) and allowed_tools: ["bash"]
refresh_token — store in credential vault for token refresh
Tokens expire in ~30 days. Set a reminder to refresh before expiry.

4. Verify Connection

Test with the personal info endpoint:

curl -s -H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" "https://api.ouraring.com/v2/usercollection/personal_info"

Available Endpoints

All endpoints use GET https://api.ouraring.com/v2/usercollection/{type} with query params start_date and end_date (YYYY-MM-DD format).

Endpoint	Data	Notes
`/v2/usercollection/daily_sleep`	Sleep score, duration, efficiency, stages	Best checked after user's typical wake time
`/v2/usercollection/sleep`	Detailed sleep periods with HR, HRV, movement	Raw sleep period data
`/v2/usercollection/daily_readiness`	Readiness score, HRV balance, recovery	Good morning check-in metric
`/v2/usercollection/daily_activity`	Steps, calories, movement, inactivity	Activity summary
`/v2/usercollection/heartrate`	Continuous HR (use `start_datetime`/`end_datetime` in ISO format)	Can be large — limit date range
`/v2/usercollection/daily_spo2`	Blood oxygen levels	Nightly average
`/v2/usercollection/daily_stress`	Stress score and recovery	Daytime stress tracking
`/v2/usercollection/workout`	Detected workouts with HR, calories	Auto-detected or manual
`/v2/usercollection/personal_info`	Age, weight, height, email	Good connection test

Token Refresh

Tokens expire after 30 days. Refresh with:

curl -s -X POST "https://api.ouraring.com/oauth/token" \
  -d "grant_type=refresh_token&refresh_token=$REFRESH_TOKEN&client_id=$CLIENT_ID&client_secret=$CLIENT_SECRET"

Store the new access_token and refresh_token from the response.

Tips

New rings need 1-2 nights to calibrate before data is meaningful
Sleep data typically appears a few hours after the user wakes up
Heart rate data during workouts appears after the workout syncs via the Oura app
Rate limit: 5000 requests per 5 minutes
Ring 4 and Gen 3 users MUST have an active Oura Membership for API access