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Access to MCP Authorization endpoint

  • July 13, 2026
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I’m building some AI Agents and have been using the Strava MCP Server (https://mcp.strava.com/mcp). I have been using the common authorization endpoint (https://www.strava.com/oauth/authorize). I now need to use the correct MCP authorization endpoint (https://www.strava.com/oauth/mcp/authorize). But I’m getting errors when trying to authorize against it (using the same Client ID and Client Secret that works for the standard endpoint).

Do I need to do something special to authorize against the MCP authorization endpoint? 

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Jan_Mantau
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  • July 13, 2026

I’m not completely sure but I would say you are not supposed to use this MCP in your programming. It’s for the everyday user to access in the browser or Claude app. Since the user authorizes Claude to connect to Strava the real Strava login is necessary, not only access tokens.