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Hi, I am trying to upload a FIT file to Strava. I tried to manually upload it in my profile and that works, however attempting to upload it through the API does not. I get the following data when checking the status of the upload:

"data": {
    "id": 16302203470,
    "id_str": "16302203470",
    "external_id": "test.fit",
    "error": "Unrecognized file type.",
    "status": "There was an error processing your activity.",
    "activity_id": null
},

The file in question is added as an attachment.

Thanks for your help.

Best regards,

Nicolas Goualard

I’m more surprised that you can upload this obvious bogus file manually with a location on null island and heart rates above 250.

I’m more surprised that you can upload this obvious bogus file manually with a location on null island and heart rates above 250.

I am developing a device that creates FIT files, but those are not ready yet. In order to validate the uploading process I am using this test file, which is generated by a FIT SDK example. Indeed the values don’t mean much, but I am more interested in seeing if the infrastructure I devised is working.

I did some more testing on my end, and my problem does not seem related to Strava, but rather my API call. Sorry for the inconvenience.

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