Oura Ring

Oura Ring provides comprehensive health and wellness tracking through advanced wearable technology, offering detailed insights into sleep quality, activity levels, heart rate variability, and recovery metrics to help users optimize their health and fitness routines with data-driven recommendations.

Power end-to-end data operations for your Oura Ring API with Nexla. Our bi-directional Oura Ring connector is purpose-built for Oura Ring, making it simple to ingest data, sync it across systems, and deliver it anywhere — all with no coding required. Nexla turns API-sourced data into ready-to-use, reusable data products and makes it easy to send data to Oura Ring or any other destination. With comprehensive monitoring, lineage tracking, and access controls, Nexla keeps your Oura Ring workflows fast, secure, and fully governed.

Features

Type: API

SourceDestination

• Seamless API Integration: Connect to any endpoint as source or destination without coding, with automatic data product creation
• Visual Composition & Chaining: Build complex integrations using visual templates, chain API calls, and compose workflows with data validation and filtering
• API Proxy: Expose curated slices of your data securely with a secure and customizable API proxy that validates and transforms data on the fly
• Request optimization with intelligent batching, retry, and caching to minimize API calls and costs

Prerequisites

Before creating an Oura Ring credential, you need to obtain your OAuth2 Client ID and Client Secret from your Oura Ring account. Oura Ring uses OAuth2 3-legged authentication, which allows Nexla to access your Oura Ring account on your behalf.

To prepare for OAuth2 authentication, ensure you have the following:

1. Oura Ring Account: You must have an active Oura Ring account with a registered Oura Ring device.

2. OAuth2 Client Application: You must have an OAuth2 client application registered in your Oura Ring account. If you don't have one, you'll need to create it in your Oura Ring account settings or developer portal.

3. Client ID and Client Secret: You need to obtain the Client ID and Client Secret from your OAuth2 client application settings in your Oura Ring account.

4. Account Access: You must have administrative access or appropriate permissions to register OAuth2 applications and authorize access to your Oura Ring account.

5. OAuth Authorization: During the credential creation process, you will be redirected to Oura Ring's authorization page to grant Nexla permission to access your Oura Ring account. You will need to sign in with your Oura Ring account and approve the authorization request.

The OAuth2 flow uses your OAuth2 client application to authenticate with Oura Ring. When you authorize Nexla, you grant permission for Nexla to access your Oura Ring account data based on the requested scope. The authorization includes access to read health and wellness data from your Oura Ring device, including sleep, activity, and recovery metrics. For detailed information about OAuth2 authentication, available scopes, and API access, refer to the Oura Ring API documentation.

Authenticate

Credentials required

Field	Required	Secret	Description
Client ID for Authorization	Yes	No	Client ID for Oura Ring Authorization
Re-enter Client ID (same as above)	Yes	No	Enter the Client ID again
Client Secret	Yes	Yes	Amazon Ads Token Client Secret
Scope	No	No	The OAuth 2.0 permission scope used to limit the application's access to an advertiser's account. Allowed values: All Available Scopes (Set this value to get access to all available scopes (email personal daily heartrate workout tag session)); email personal daily (Basic user information along with daily summaries of sleep, activity and readiness)

Create a credential in Nexla

1. After selecting the data source/destination type, click the Add Credential tile to open the Add New Credential overlay.

New Credential Overlay – Oura Ring

2. Enter a name for the credential in the Credential Name field and a short, meaningful description in the Credential Description field.

3. Enter your OAuth2 Client ID in the Client ID for Authorization field. This is the Client ID you obtained from your Oura Ring OAuth2 client application settings. The Client ID is used in the OAuth2 authorization flow to identify your application.

4. Enter your OAuth2 Client ID again in the Re-enter Client ID (same as above) field. This should match the Client ID you entered in the previous step.

5. Enter your OAuth2 Client Secret in the Client Secret field. This is the Client Secret you obtained from your Oura Ring OAuth2 client application settings. The Client Secret is used in the OAuth2 token exchange and is sensitive information that must be kept confidential.

6. Enter the OAuth2 scope in the Scope field. This should be the OAuth2 permission scope used to limit the application's access to your Oura Ring account data. Common scopes include personal for personal data access. Refer to the Oura Ring API documentation for available scopes.

7. Click the Authorize button to begin the OAuth2 authorization process. You will be redirected to Oura Ring's authorization page.

8. Sign in to your Oura Ring account using your Oura Ring account credentials.

9. Review the permissions that Nexla is requesting. These permissions allow Nexla to access your Oura Ring account data based on the requested scope.

10. Click Accept or Authorize to grant Nexla permission to access your Oura Ring account.

11. After authorization, you will be redirected back to Nexla, and the credential will be automatically configured with the OAuth2 tokens.

    OAuth2 authentication uses your OAuth2 client application to securely access your Oura Ring account. When you authorize Nexla, you grant permission for Nexla to access your Oura Ring account data based on the requested scope (e.g., personal for personal data access). The authorization includes access to read health and wellness data from your Oura Ring device, including sleep, activity, and recovery metrics.

    The OAuth2 tokens (access token and refresh token) are automatically managed by Nexla. The access token is used to authenticate API requests, and the refresh token is used to obtain new access tokens when they expire. Tokens are automatically refreshed as needed to maintain access to your Oura Ring account.

    If you need to revoke access, you can do so in your Oura Ring account settings under OAuth2 applications or Connected apps. For detailed information about OAuth2 authentication, available scopes, and API access, see the Oura Ring API documentation.

12. Click the Save button at the bottom of the overlay to save the configured credential. The newly added credential will now appear in a tile on the Authenticate screen during data source/destination creation.

Use as a data source

To create a new data flow, navigate to the Integrate section, and click the New Data Flow button. Select the Oura Ring connector tile, then select the credential that will be used to connect to your Oura Ring account, and click Next; or, create a new Oura Ring credential for use in this flow.

Endpoint templates

Nexla provides pre-built templates that can be used to rapidly configure data sources to ingest data from common Oura Ring endpoints. Select the endpoint from which this source will fetch data from the Endpoint pulldown menu. Available endpoint templates are listed in the expandable boxes below. Click on an endpoint to see more information about it and how to configure your data source for this endpoint.

Get Daily Activity

This endpoint template returns Oura Daily Activity data for the authenticated Oura user within a given timeframe. Use this template when you need to retrieve daily activity metrics, including steps, calories, active time, and other activity-related data from your Oura Ring device.

• Enter the start date in the Start Date (yyyy-MM-dd) field. This should be the start date of the activities you wish to fetch (e.g., 2024-01-01). You can also use Nexla macros like {now}, {now - 1}, etc. The start date determines the beginning of the date range for which activity data will be retrieved.
• Enter the end date in the End Date (yyyy-MM-dd) field. This should be the end date of the activities you wish to fetch (e.g., 2024-01-31). You can also use Nexla macros like {now}, {now - 1}, etc. The end date determines the end of the date range for which activity data will be retrieved.

This endpoint returns Oura Daily Activity data for the authenticated Oura user within a given timeframe. The endpoint uses token-based pagination with next_token parameter to handle large datasets efficiently. Nexla will automatically fetch subsequent pages of data by using the next token returned in the API response.

The activity data includes daily metrics such as steps, calories burned, active time, and other activity-related information from your Oura Ring device. For detailed information about activity data, API response structures, pagination, and available activity metrics, see the Oura Ring API documentation.

Get Daily Sleep

This endpoint template returns Oura Daily Sleep data for the authenticated Oura user within a given timeframe. Use this template when you need to retrieve daily sleep metrics, including sleep duration, sleep stages, sleep efficiency, and other sleep-related data from your Oura Ring device.

• Enter the start date in the Start Date (yyyy-MM-dd) field. This should be the start date of the sleep data you wish to fetch (e.g., 2024-01-01). You can also use Nexla macros like {now}, {now - 1}, etc. The start date determines the beginning of the date range for which sleep data will be retrieved.
• Enter the end date in the End Date (yyyy-MM-dd) field. This should be the end date of the sleep data you wish to fetch (e.g., 2024-01-31). You can also use Nexla macros like {now}, {now - 1}, etc. The end date determines the end of the date range for which sleep data will be retrieved.

This endpoint returns Oura Daily Sleep data for the authenticated Oura user within a given timeframe. The endpoint uses token-based pagination with next_token parameter to handle large datasets efficiently. Nexla will automatically fetch subsequent pages of data by using the next token returned in the API response.

The sleep data includes daily metrics such as sleep duration, sleep stages (deep, REM, light), sleep efficiency, and other sleep-related information from your Oura Ring device. For detailed information about sleep data, API response structures, pagination, and available sleep metrics, see the Oura Ring API documentation.

Once the selected endpoint template has been configured, click the Test button to the right of the endpoint selection menu to retrieve a sample of the data that will be fetched. Sample data will be fetched and displayed in the Endpoint Test Result panel on the right, allowing you to verify that the source is configured correctly before saving.

Manual configuration

Oura Ring data sources can also be manually configured to ingest data from any valid Oura Ring API endpoint, including endpoints not covered by the pre-built templates or custom query parameters. Select the Advanced tab at the top of the configuration screen, and follow the instructions in Connect to Any API to configure the API method, endpoint URL, date/time and lookup macros, path to data, metadata, and request headers.

The Oura Ring API typically uses the GET method, and all endpoints are rooted at https://cloud.ouraring.com/v2/usercollection/ (for example, https://cloud.ouraring.com/v2/usercollection/daily_activity?start={start_date}&end={end_date}). Set the Response Data Path to $.data[*] to extract records, depending on your endpoint. The API uses token-based pagination — configure the next-token JSONPath as $.next_token with a parameter name of next_token.

Once all of the relevant settings have been configured, click the Next button to proceed with the rest of the data flow configuration, or click Save to save the data source configuration for later use.