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Hello,

 

The Strava website provides a convenient way to get the .tcx files of a specific activity:

https://support.strava.com/hc/en-us/articles/216918437-Exporting-your-Data-and-Bulk-Export#h_01GDP2C5E3278KM8MPK5X49ED3

This is a little-known trick, however, it's simple to use.  Simply add "/export_tcx" - without quotes - to the end of your activity page URL. For example, if your activity page is www.strava.com/activities/2865391236 - just add the text to give you  www.strava.com/activities/2865391236/export_tcx and hit enter. This will download a TCX version of your file to the location specified by your browser's preferences

 

Is there a way to achieve this with the API? I can get .tcx file for routes but not for activities.

Thanks for your help!

Directly, there is no API call that I know of.

Indirectly, you could use getActivityStreams to retrieve the various streams for the file you care about and then create your own tcx file. I haven’t searched but I expect there are libraries around for most major programming languages to make creating the file easier.

TCX schema: https://www8.garmin.com/xmlschemas/TrainingCenterDatabasev2.xsd

Directly, there is no API call that I know of.

Indirectly, you could use getActivityStreams to retrieve the various streams for the file you care about and then create your own tcx file. I haven’t searched but I expect there are libraries around for most major programming languages to make creating the file easier.

TCX schema: https://www8.garmin.com/xmlschemas/TrainingCenterDatabasev2.xsd

Hello ActivityFix and thank you for you answer!

In my mid getActivityStreams was corresponding to a currently happening activity. Is it also available for past activities?

Thank you!

All API calls to retrieve activity data are on past activities. You don't have an activity ID until the activity is saved.

Ok, thank you, I’ll look into streams. It should be the right solution for me as I’m more trying to get detailed info of activity than getting a .tcx file. I thought tcx would give me the info I need, but streams is may be a better option.

Thanks!

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