Ask & Troubleshoot

I know scraping is frowned upon but is it fair game to source the public athletes endpoint (e.g. https://www.strava.com/athletes/{id}) which is reachable without a login and is not explicitly forbidden by the robots.txt for athlete image links and other stuff to use in a Strava API application? Sorry if this happens to be a duplicate question. Have a nice day!

I was searching using the activity search on the web interface for some of my activities on the Goat Creek trail that I sometime use a ‘🐐’ character in the description of and I wasn’t finding anything.I tried on the android client instead and the search worked as expected.Looking further on the web version I noted that search for a ‘🐑’ instead turned up the one of the several activities I had with a ‘👻’ character in its title.I suspect the web search has an issue with byte conversion or/and utf-16 surrogate clipping of some kind...

It would be nice to have more options about what to show in the main feed in the activity highlight. For example: if I go on a run that has on average 101ft per mile run of elevation gain, the total elevation gain of the run shows in the feed highlight, otherwise it does not. Having more granular control over what is shown by default for each activity type would be nice.  Right now it seems determined by activity tagging, for example, indoor cycling vs ride.  For indoor cycling the power is shown in the feed, otherwise you have to drill down. There is no way to know these rules without experimentation and no way to control them right now. Also I've noticed recently some activities are not showing the total moving duration unless you drill down into the specific details, even with no segments or achievements.

Why sometimes, when you create a segment,you get a leaderboard, but if you slightly edit it afterwards you get no leaderboard? i undretsand there might need some time to be updates, but in few segments, noone was ever added after i edited it, although there were around 12 peopl in it when i firstly created it.

Some of the segments i ve created, do not appear on the map. While others, do appear. I have everything public, no spots hidden from the map. all permissions are checked. 

I’d like to incorporate the Global Heatmap data into recreation and conservation planning efforts in USA.  Is this possible?  Is there someone I could speak with to discuss it?

Please get rid of the strava features, challenges and adverts from the homepage.  I don't need to see these, I want to see what everyone else is doing, not what challenges there are. At least make these optional or in a drop down box or something.  I will not renew my subscription if these remain. 

Hey all, I used to love sharing my activity map with the “Save Image” feature on the app.Now when I do that the title and activity stats are considerably bigger than before and often cover up the name of the city. I can save a transparent version of the stats that would allow me to make them smaller but unfortunaley I can’t save the map on its own. Any idea’s appreciated, I wish Strava had never changed from the old smaller title. It was perfect. Thanks

Hello,I completed a bike ride of 100.1 km, and when I finished the route, I shortened it by 0.1 km. But when the route updated, it now only shows 55.97 km. I lost half of my ride and I can’t manage to recover it. What should I do? Could we restore the original route? Is this an option available in the paid version?Thank you.Eric.

Hi I was just wondering if there was an endpoint(s) to access data behind the public global heat map?

For some reason, my heart rate and cadence data flatline about two thirds of the way through my runs.  I’m using an Amazfit watch which relays the data to the Zepp app whihc then syncs with Strava.  The data is accurate on the Zepp app but not on Strava.  Has anyone see this happen before? 

I have completed more than 1000 bike rides with Strava in the last few years.  I record them with my Samsung A13 phone.  This has always had reliable GPS that accurately records my rides.  I also record the rides on my watch, which doesn’t have as good GPS accuracy as the phone (it “wobbles” a few metres occasionally), but it has the benefit of recording heartrate.  If I go somewhere new and want to create a couple of new Segments I do it using the Activity as recorded on the phone, as the GPS data is better.  To avoid duplicating the recordings, I usually delete the phone version after a day or so (unless I forgot to tighten my watch-strap which causes the heart-rate to under-read and be meaningless !).  This methodology has worked well for several years.However, for the last 3 rides I notice that all the recordings on my phone show small spikes about every 15 seconds or so (for the whole ride) that make them unsuitable for using as a basis for new Segments.  The watch data

I’m looking to incorporate the Global Heatmap data into recreation and conservation planning efforts in USA.  Is this possible?  Is there someone I could speak with to discuss it?

When viewing the Gravel Heatmap, you also see a lot of normal paved roads highlighted. This could be prevented if you could exclude the roads that are also used a lot by a roadbike heatmap. A lot of times it is very difficult to know what the nice gravel roads are in an area because a lot of ‘gravel’ rides are probably also winter rides on asphalt.

We successfully created a webhook subscription using our development site (dev.xxxx.com), but we have been unsuccessful subscribing using our production site after we switched the app’s Authorization Callback Domain to production (xxxx.com).When we view the app’s subscriptions, it returns empty.Attempting to create a new subscription from production returns “GET to callback URL does not return 200” which many people have reported here.However, even though we have not changed our Authorization Callback Domain back to dev.xxxx.com, we can still create a subscription from development even though the app settings on the Strava website shows the production url as the callback domain.It seems like the initial URL we created a subscription with is still the one being used for some reason even though the production $callback_url is what we send to Strava..Has anyone else had this issue before? Perhaps there is another place where the URL needs to be

Hello,I've been developing the website www.sherpa-map.com which uses Leaflet to display various map types and allows for routing using a self-hosted Graphhopper service. I would like to incorporate Strava's global heatmap but have been unable to find any documentation or recent examples, I can't even get a simple curl request to go through with a variety of different URL attempts.Is there any documentation? Are there any examples? Any help would be appreciated.Thanks!

I'm creating a mobile app that uses Strava authentication.Because there's a link to create an account below the authentication screen, the app is being asked to include a function to delete the account.Looking at the API documentation, there's no function to create or delete an account, and there's no explanation about this, so I'm thinking it's not possible, but does anyone know anything about it?Apple has asked me to let them know if it's not possible due to the API specifications.https://developers.strava.com/docs/reference/

Receive the option to use a new screen / interface to record an activity this morning. Wanted to share some early feedback. (iPhone app user, UK based.)Positives:Great to see the time & distance on the map screen. No more switching between screens to know how far I’ve travelled while following a route. This is a huge improvement and outweighs all the other items below. Thank you! Good to have an easily visible option to add a route at the start of my ride.Negatives:Strange to see ~20% of the bottom of the screen permanently occupied with a huge Pause button and a Send Beacon Text option. I don’t want to pause while I’m moving. In fact, I definitely don’t want to accidentally pause while I’m trying to use a map feature on the move. Is there any way to make the Pause option only appear when I’m standing still? Or at least make it smaller? Send Beacon Text is a great option but I don’t need to see it permanently. If I ch

I’m getting political club info in my feed (cycle for this politician or that one) and I’d really like an option to block these. I like Strava for data and motivation, not more hate-messaging. There’s enough of that in every other app. 

I had an active streak of 59 weeks. I have uploaded an activity - but the streak did not change to active (having the flame turn to orange).In this support article I read that every activity during a week (starting Monday, ending Sunday) should count towards the streak. I can confirm that all of my activities have been 60 seconds or longer. I can also confirm I have done at least one activity every week; see the screenshot attached (from the desktop view)I am adding an image from a friends account - to show the difference between the active and inactive streak.  Screenshot of my inactive streak Screenshot of my training calendar (desktop view) to confi

May I kindly ask if there is a mechanism to request permission for connecting more than 1,000 athletes? Previously, I submitted a request and was approved for a connection limit of 999 athletes. However, this number is still insufficient for our upcoming event.Thank you very much for your consideration and support.

Everything was working fine earlier today. I was able to “like” comments under my posts, but when I tried later I got the message, “Something is wrong, please try later.”I also noticed that after I give Kudos and refresh my app, those kudos have disappeared.I can still comment on posts, but I can’t like any responses.I’ve logged out, reinstalled, etc.  

Why can't I create segments shorter than 500 meters for cycling and shorter than 300 meters for running, even though I have a subscription, when I've seen shorter segments on Strava?For example this running segment is only 280 meters long: https://www.strava.com/segments/19339033

When I start the Android app, wait for the GPS to be found (Green status), presse the start button and then put the screen to sleep with the power button, the activité is well recorded.But if the GPS is not found or weak when I press de start button and then the power button, the activité is not recorded until I wake the screen, which is often when I finish the activity (happens mostly when I am commuting because of the topography).Its happens more since the latest update of the recording interface, a few weeks ago. 

It would be helpful to have the ability to rename routes directly from the My Routes list page.