Dexcom API Integration
With Terra's Dexcom web API integration, your app can access continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) data from Dexcom sensors. The Dexcom API integration delivers recent and historical glucose readings, enabling you to track glucose trends, alert thresholds, and calibration events. This provides your users with a comprehensive picture of their metabolic health.Start Receiving Data From Dexcom In 5 Minutes
Dexcom
Enable Dexcom through your Terra dashboard
Select a Wearable
Dexcom
Connect users to your app
0. "active_durations_data":{...}
1. "calories_data": {...}
2. "device_data": {...}
3. "distance_data": {...}
4. "heart_rate_data": {...}
5. "movement_data": {...}
6. "position_data": {...}
Start receiving data from Dexcom on your app or website
How the Dexcom API integration works
- Data delivery
- Terra polls Dexcom
- Expected latency
- Up to 5–10 minutes after the provider syncs
- Data types
- Body
- Credentials
- You supply your own Dexcom app credentials. Apply at developer.dexcom.com
Two ways to receive Dexcom data
When data is available from a Dexcom device, Terra sends it straight to your webhook. During your Terra account setup you'll be prompted for a callback URL, and that is where Terra POSTs each payload.
Dexcom does not notify Terra when data changes, so Terra polls it every 5–10 minutes for each connected user and POSTs the normalized payload to your webhook.
Dexcom's Body
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Terra API preserves the raw data from the wearable, it just standardizes the units and the json format. It doesn’t augment or change the raw data in any way.
Data is organized into one of 6 data types.
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Body Payload (JSON)
{
glucose_data: { ... }
metadata: { ... }
}
Data can also be sent as a FIT File or with the FHIR Format.
Send Dexcom data to your backend
Terra forwards every normalized payload to the destination you already use.
Webhook
Firestore
SQL
Mongo DB
Google Cloud Storage Bucket
AWS S3 Bucket
AWS Simple Queue Service
Kafka
Supabase
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Dexcom API alternatives
These integrations also offer Body data.
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