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Im looking for a online database / API where i can pull information about some fitness exercises with basic information like difficulty, name, how to do it, etc. I hope you get my point. I saw one question about this topic but i couldn't find any good results with the answers that were postet there so i thought i ask a new question with the faith that someone got something "newer" for me. appreciate any help :)

Noshii
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  • Hmmm.. it seems like USDA has most of the data you are looking for encapsulated in their SuperTracker tool at https://www.supertracker.usda.gov/physicalactivitytracker.aspx -- I would consider contacting them to see about getting the data behind this tool. – Mark Silverberg Oct 15 '15 at 12:45

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If scraping* is a possibility, ExRx has hosted a well-structured exercise website for a long time (19 years!)

From the Exercise Directory, each muscle group is clearly listed. For example, Upper Arm.

Each exercise is also clearly listed, for example, Tricepts.

In the HTML source of each page, you'll also see pretty clearly the text and images/videos that you may want to collect. For example:

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Depending on your use case, web-scraping may or may not be a useful way to collect and use data.

philshem
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Wger seems to provide an API for this, complete with info about the muscles exercised and the equipment needed.

Unfortunately, it doesn't seem like it offers an extensive repository of exercises.

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https://github.com/yuhonas/free-exercise-db has around 800 exercises and can be downloaded as JSON.

https://rapidapi.com/justin-WFnsXH_t6/api/exercisedb/ also exists but it's behind a paywall after 400 requests each month.

IgnisDa
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