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hamachanHub Starter
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Request for Increased API Authorization Limit

Hello Strava Developer Team, I am developing a non-commercial web application to support a charity marathon event in Japan.The app connects with Strava to collect each participant’s running data and displays a leaderboard to motivate runners. The event is organized by a volunteer group, and we plan to limit participants to under 100 people.The app only uses the read and activity:read scopes to fetch participants' run distances during the event period. I kindly request an increase to the athlete authorization limit for my application so more runners can connect their Strava accounts. Thank you for your support and consideration. Best regards,

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Jo61joHub Rookie
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Speeding along sitting on a bench, gaining mileage while resting!

Strava recently made changes to the Android app, generally for the better.Unfortunately, the developers forgot to do proper testing, which I noticed today.I had completed a 3.5 mile jog and it being a beautiful day in Northern CA, I took an extended break, sitting on a bench.  When I completed this segment, I took a screenshot of my Strava screen (File: Strava 1)About 25 mins later, when I decided to get my rear in gear and do the return 3.5 miles, I looked at my phone and noticed some weirdness on Strava.Even though I had been sitting still on the bench, I saw my SPEED was changing!  Huh?  I took some screenshots as evidence.  I also noticed that I had GAINED .06 miles in distance during the time I had been sitting on the bench!  Too funny. (Files: Strava 2, 3, 4)Can we get the Android app fixed Strava because now I have no confidence in anything I am tracking via Strava.Even funnier, I am on a free 30 day trials of enhanced Strava data.  Given this screwed up data, there is zero chan

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DXYHub Starter
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Issue in Strava authorization callback

Starting this afternoon, Strava is not hitting our callback anymore after the authorization of a new athlete to our app.Steps:User clicks on authorize Strava in our Flutter app on iOS browser popup opens and user has to sign in User clicks on sign in with Apple User gets redirected to the Strava app From the Strava app, the user is not redirected back to our app anymore and no callback is triggeredThis worked in production this morning and stopped a few hours ago.Any known issues or updates happening right now?

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aventonHub Starter
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Increase the number of influencers and daily requests.

 The number of influencers we currently have exceeds 999, and the daily number of requests is over 6,000. How can we raise the upper limits?

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CalamytyHub Rookie
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Inconsistent activity sync – possible webhook issue?

Hello Strava API Support,We have an integration between Strava.com and our platform Train2Go.com, where coaches expect to see the activity data of their athletes. This process relies on Strava's webhook system: when an athlete completes an activity, we expect to receive a webhook notification so we can load the activity into Train2Go.We’re currently facing an issue where this process works for some athletes, but not for the majority. For many users, no webhook is triggered (or received), and therefore their activities are not uploaded to our platform.We suspect the issue might be related to the webhook system, but we’re not entirely sure — it could be caused by something else. We’d really appreciate your help in troubleshooting this. Has this behavior been observed before? Could there be another potential reason why some athlete activities sync correctly and others don’t?For additional context: about a week ago, we migrated our production environment to a new server with a new IP addre

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TobiRHub Starter
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Upcoming occurences of recurring club events show first date only

Hi there,retrieving the club events from the api-endpoint /clubs/:id/group_events shows only the first date in the upcoming_occurences property even if there is a weekly or monthly interval set. Even if this date is in the past what for sure is no upcoming date :)This seems to have changed in the meantime as it worked before. Back then the upcoming_occurences array has been populated with future dates.Has anybody experienced the same behavior? Cheers,Tobi

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DeloHub Climber
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Is there a limit of routes i can embed to a website?

Hello,I’m making a website for my local community to share all the routes in my area in one place.For doing that, I use the route integration with the <HTML> code.I was just wondering if there is a limit of routes that can be integrated from an account? I would not like my accound to be suspended for that :) Thank you,

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krunal22naikHub Rookie
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How to switch to strava producction?

I want to switch from dev to production API so that I can integrate in my live website. For dev, I can just get one login. 

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xdennismaHub Rookie
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Local Legend data in APIs

Hello,I know there are various third-party tools that use Strava API data for gathering information for crowns/CRs. However, I would like to gather information on a number of Local Legends for segments that are local to me. I have two questions:a) Are there any APIs available that include Local Legend data? I did a web search and found several references indicating that Local Legend data is not included in APIs, even though crown/CR data is in the APIs.b) If I use a web scraping tool to gather the Local Legend information from approximately 200 segments, would this violate any terms of my user agreement? Once again, I know that there are tools that exist to scrape this data for crowns/CRs, but I don't know if the same open policy applies to Local Legends data.Thank you!Dennis

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dodgybartonHub Starter
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API GET Activities by id "Resource Not Found"

Anyone else having this issue?Super simple:curl -k -X GET "https://www.strava.com/api/v3/activities/<ID>" \  -H "Authorization: Bearer ***" returns:{"message":"Resource Not Found","errors":[{"resource":"Activity","field":"","code":"not found"}]}The privacy controls are set to ‘Everyone’. I can’t return data for any activity.Clearly the token is fine, else its unauthorised. Thanks

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ElliotSerorHub Starter
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Application to increase limits still pending, after 8 days, app is at risk

Hi there,  I build the Fitshot app, client id 130939. I submitted an limit increase 8 days ago now, and have sent countless emails since then.  My app has not been accepting new reviews for days and is now getting negative reviews on the app store. I can’t possibly go into the weekend like this.  How can I possibly accelerate the review process? (even for a small limit increase while the application gets reviewed?)

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keniniHub Starter
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Request for Assistance with Verifying Webhook URL (https://pacerai.vn)

I am reaching out for assistance with verifying the webhook URL for my application. I have registered the following callback URL to receive Strava webhook events:https://pacerai.vnHowever, I am encountering an issue where the webhook subscription cannot be verified successfully. Despite ensuring that the URL is publicly accessible and SSL is correctly configured, I have received an error indicating that the URL is "not verifiable."Could you kindly assist me in troubleshooting this issue and help ensure that my webhook URL is properly verified? Below are some key details for your reference: Webhook URL: https://pacerai.vn Platform: Strava Webhooks Issue Encountered: Callback URL not verifiable Error Message: "not verifiable" I have already verified that the URL is accessible via a browser and curl, and SSL is working correctly. I have also ensured that the correct hub.challenge response is sent when the verification request is made. However, the verification step is still failing.

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eladHub Rookie
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Can't change authentication scope

(I’ve read the relevant posts on here but did not find the answers I seek there)Hi all,New to oauth2, building an app that needs to read activity data from Strava. For this, I need activity:read in my permission scope. However, I can only get the “read” scope despite choosing scope arg as “activity:read” or “read, activity:read”. I can see that the token generated only has “read” permission on the API app dashboard on my profile, and I also see an authorization error when I invoke the read activities API. Here is my code: REDIRECT_URI = "https://localhost:8501"AUTHORIZE_URL = "https://www.strava.com/oauth/authorize"TOKEN_URL = "https://www.strava.com/api/v3/oauth/token"SCOPE = "activity:read"API_BASE = 'https://www.strava.com/api/v3' auth_url = f"{AUTHORIZE_URL}?client_id={CLIENT_ID}&redirect_uri={REDIRECT_URI}&response_type=code&scope={SCOPE}" I exclude the client id and secret of course, and the rest of the code that creates a link on my dashboard to auth_url. This genera

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CotacolHub Starter
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How to get all segments from a Route in the API?

Hello all,  In our cotacol (Belgian) app, we are leveraging Strava Segments so our members can "collect" different hills in Belgium.  Those hills match one:one with a Strava Segment.  Now, I am building a functionality, so that users can select one of their Routes and get to see which of the 1000 segments that would be conquored with that Route... However, just like the default behavior with an activity, it seems not all the routes are returned in the response for a Strava Route.  And I am wondering if there is a similar query string parameter we can use, to indicate we need all segments in the response.  (just like include_all_efforts with the GetActivity operation). What I am doing now:  - GET /routes/{routeId} This only returns a subset of the segments in the payload.    

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mslqHub Starter
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API Application ( two apps with same client id)

why i have two api app with same clientId, and cant remove one of them, it confuse me bcs sometimes the app that shows in dashboard is the first one sometimes the other

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JelleVerschuureHub Starter
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401 error - Acces token invalid while valid?

Relatively new to this, so hopefully an easy mistake to fix: I am trying to set up an API connection so I can fetch my own data from Strava and import it to Excel. I am following the usual set-up as described here : https://developers.strava.com/docs/getting-started/#oauthAlthough I have tried the final authorization time and time again, it keeps saying my acces token is invalid. I have followed the steps multiple times. The token is not expired either, but it keeps giving me errors. I have checked step C4 and C5 in Postman. That does not give me errors. But when attempting D10/D11, I get either 404 errors (although im sure my website is correct) or 401 errors. I also notice that my acces token in step C4/C5 differs from the oneAny idea’s on how to solve this? 

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craiboHub Rookie
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Athlete V3 stats API all_run_totals and others are incorrect

Since last week I noticed that the all_*_totals (eg. all_run_totals) have reset on the API to start counting from 0 even though the Strava Portal clearly indicates a much higher number.  On Strava portal my all time running stats are 113However the API https://developers.strava.com/docs/reference/#api-Athletes-getStats no returns only my most recent run count"all_run_totals": { "count": 1, "distance": 5630.0, "moving_time": 2473, "elapsed_time": 2519, "elevation_gain": 86.63724517822266}, How do I get this corrected?

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danieljacobHub Rookie
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Personal Bests / Best Efforts in API

Hello,I’m trying to find an API endpoint to get my best effort times on different run distances (1K, 5K, HM etc.), but I can’t find a sensible way to do it. I understand that I could, in theory, go through each detailed activity, but that would be a hassle. There must be a more efficient way of doing this? 

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nstielauHub Starter
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segment_efforts API not returning efforts visible in UI or via /activitities/1234

Can anyone help me understand why some segments appear to return segment efforts via API, and others do not?  Using the same query, changing only the segment ID, one segment returns efforts and another does not. When I view in the web UI, e.g. https://www.strava.com/segments/1234, I can see a recent effort (definitely within the time range).  Both activities are Followers Only, both are marked “downhill”, and I am properly authenticated.  I cannot tell any other important differences.  The only thing I can think of is that I have only done the segment that doesn’t work once, whereas the one that works I’ve done numerous times.What’s more, if I manually find the activity view the web UI, and query /api/v3/activities/4321, I am able to see the segment effort contained in that JSON response.  Any help appreciated.  Thanks in advance! curl "https://www.strava.com/api/v3/segment_efforts?segment_id=$SEGMENT_ID&per_page=1&page=1&start_date=2000-01-01T00:00:00&end_date=2025-06-

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rgyeHub Starter
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Webhook - Deleting a subscription when old one already exists

Hello there,I’m currently working on webhook integrationAn existing webhook subscription is still active under this application, but it points to an outdated callback URL which is no longer online. As a result, any attempt to delete the subscription via the DELETE /push_subscriptions endpoint returns a 404 error.Is there a way to force-remove or to override a no-longer used subscription? The server to which the url points is no longer running since a while.Thanks a lot in advance for your help

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jsumnersHub Rookie
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Missing `best_efforts` in DetailedActivity reponses

https://developers.strava.com/docs/reference/#api-models-DetailedActivity states that a `best_efforts` field should be returned. Presumably this would be a subset of the `segment_efforts` collection, but I am not seeing it returned in any queries in order to verify this assumption. What are the conditions that result in an activity returning the `best_efforts` field? Is it a subset of `segment_efforts`? Or is it something else? The docs should be updated with this information.

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prettyconfusedHub Starter
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Rogue app "a" in My Apps

Why does this rogue app called “a” appear in My Apps? It leads to a website of script-kiddy programmers who dabble in various LLMs.Who owns this app “a”?  When I revoke access, and change my password, it reappears anyway after up to one hour. See screenshot:The website this app links to is not a website I use, is not a professional website, and is six LLM programmers at university.  I don’t understand what is going on. Surely Strava aren’t using these guys for LLM processing? My account is not compromised and password has not been given to anybody. I do not use these LLM services. Thanks.

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CrossPeakZane
CrossPeakZaneHub Rookie
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Strava's CloudFront CDN is serving placeholder images to server requests

Is this issue happening to everyone?  Every request is returning a placeholder image.https://d3nn82uaxijpm6.cloudfront.net/assets/media/placeholder-photo@4x-6c5d2aaeadca1292be72943c04ea6defe7dcd610da7dc87a1ccaad30e134b2d6.png

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SilvesterHub Rookie
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Persistent 503 Error When Fetching Activities via API - Mobile App Issue

Dear Friends,I'm reaching out regarding a persistent issue I've been experiencing with the Strava API for the past few days. It was working perfectly until last week for more than 2 months.Issue SummaryMy mobile application has been consistently receiving 503 "Service Temporarily Unavailable" errors when attempting to fetch user activities via the /api/v3/athlete/activities endpoint. The authentication process works perfectly, but all subsequent API calls fail.Technical DetailsApp Details: MotionMosaic (Client ID: 147671) Error: HTTP 503 with HTML error page instead of JSON response Affected Endpoint: https://www.strava.com/api/v3/athlete/activities Platform: React Native mobile app (iOS/Android) Authentication: OAuth 2.0 with PKCE + client_secret (working correctly)What I've TriedRe-authentication: Cleared all tokens and re-authenticated users multiple times New App Creation: Created a completely new Strava application in my developer dashboard Token Refresh: Implemented proper token

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paleloser
paleloserHub Climber
asked in Developers & API
Webhooks security

According to the current Webhooks Events API documentation, only the client authenticates to Strava upon subscription registration/check, with the API client_id and client_secret.This is great but IMO insufficent, as both parties should somehow be authenticated. In other words, Strava should authenticate with the Webhook suscriptor. The way is done at the moment, an attacker could impersonate Strava's API sending fake event data to the client's endpoint. The only way the client could defend from this would be checking whether if the subscription ID matches or not. But this is neither proposed as a security measure in the documentation site, or implicit within the process (it's something that the clients would need to implement ad-hoc). Moreover, since the subscription_id field is integer, it could be pretty easy for an attacker to guess the right value.Is there any other way of dealing with this that you could suggest?Thanks in advance.

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