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CyrilHub Rookie
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Deauthorizing athletes without access token

Now that Strava’s new Developer Program has introduced a limit on the number of athletes who can register with an app, we can see the number of "athletes currently connected" in our API settings.I can see that the number in the API settings (Strava side) is higher than the number of athletes using my app. I seem to remember (maybe incorrectly) that there was a time when apps did not have access to the deauthorization endpoint, so I (and maybe others) would simply delete the athlete account on the app side and ignore the incoming webhooks for those athletes.The net result is that some devs will now want to deauthorize 'stale' athletes, but they no longer have the access tokens required by the endpoint.Now that a limit is being put on the number of connected athletes per app, will there be an opportunity for devs to deauthorize athletes without access token? Otherwise some apps will be hitting their athlete limit much sooner than they should...

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10 months ago
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d_albertHub Starter
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access to Live Segments API

Hello,in the first line of the following link https://developers.strava.com/docs/partner/strava-live-segments/ it is mentioned that:"Strava Live Segments is an API that allows users to compare their real time effort with Strava segment efforts on their device. To inquire about Strava Live Segments licensing, contact developers -at- strava.com with the subject line “Strava Live Segments Request” and include your API App ID."I did send an email requesting access to the Live segments API only to get an automtic reply redirecting me to this forum. Can someone help me understand what i have to do to get access to the live segments API?I understand that this is more of a private API using a diffetent endpoint (https://www.strava.com/api/v3/live/segments/:id)  than the one mentioned here https://developers.strava.com/docs/reference/ (https://www.strava.com/api/v3/)Thanks  

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10 months ago
tobisoft
tobisoftHub Starter
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problem when upload GPX file activity

hello!My name is Tobias and I have an app for cyclists in which I am implementing a functionality in which users can upload activities in GPX format to their account. I am testing the api service and I am having an error that I cannot remove. According to all the documentation I was looking at the file I am sending is correct but the api tells me that it is not correct. I’m sending you the details of the tests I’m doing to see if you can help me figure this out. I appreciate your help.Have a good evening. The call is:curl --location 'https://www.strava.com/api/v3/uploads' --header 'Authorization: Bearer ....' --form 'activity_type="Ride"' --form 'name="Test Walk"' --form 'description="Test walk for cyclon"' --form 'trainer="0"' --form 'commute="0"' --form 'data_type="gpx"' --form 'file=@"ftYnBaTC2/strava.gpx"' the file GPX to send:<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><gpxcreator="CyclonApp"xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"xsi:schemaLocation="http

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tobisoft
10 months ago
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FriedrichLeouHub Rookie
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Can we get the everysec activity detailed through v3 api?

As for Garmin Connect, it offers the activity detailed api for developers to access the everysec detailed in a certain activity as a json. I wander whether Strava v3 API offer the same, because I cannot find this information in API Docs. The Activity Detailed is as follow:"samples": [{"startTimeInSeconds": 1695538280,"bikeCadenceInRPM": 0.0,"timerDurationInSeconds": 0,"movingDurationInSeconds": 0,"heartRate": 99,"elevationInMeters": 3.200000047683716,"speedMetersPerSecond": 1.8940000534057617,"latitudeInDegree": 22.55610477179289,"clockDurationInSeconds": 0,"longitudeInDegree": 113.87656951323152,"airTemperatureCelcius": 35.0,"totalDistanceInMeters": 0.029999999329447746}, {"powerInWatts": 0.0,"longitudeInDegree": 113.87656565755606,"totalDistanceInMeters": 1.9199999570846558,"startTimeInSeconds": 1695538281,"bikeCadenceInRPM": 0.0,"timerDurationInSeconds": 1,"movingDurationInSeconds": 1,"heartRate": 99,"elevationInMeters": 3.0,"speedMetersPerSecond": 1.8940000534057617,"latitudeI

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11 months ago
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sanjay31Hub Rookie
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Strava V3 API How to Increase Rate Limit

We want to build an android application to read data of athletes after their authentication using V3 API. Default rate limit is 200 for 15 mint and 2000 for per day.How to increase this limit. Is there any paid plan for developers?

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11 months ago
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mdrobel_ahammedHub Starter
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Bad Request Issue During API Call.

We made a web app and connected strava API to get the activity of athletes, We only get the activity of athletes who are associated with our strava app, but we don't get the activity of those who are not associated with our apps. Many people connect their Strava account with our web app, and when we are going to generate refreshing tokens it says bad request. Please let me know how we can get all of the activity of athletes who are connected to our web apps via strava. Do we need to any extra settings of the app for public mode?

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11 months ago
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akkelHub Starter
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Accessing data used in research publication --limited research license

Hi,I'm a university researcher in Statistics (and also a keen runner and Strava user). I want to reproduce the results of this research paper (published in 2022):https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40279-022-01680-5In it, the authors state:"Availability of data The data supporting the findings of the current study are provided by Strava under a limited research license. The data are thus not publicly available. Requests to access these data should be directed to Strava."How/where could I request access to these same data?  

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11 months ago
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anetazelikHub Starter
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Explore segments for inline skating

Hello everyone, I'd like to ask whether there is any way to retrieve all segments for inline skating activity via Strava public API? Is that feature planned to be implemented? Currently according to the docs: https://developers.strava.com/docs/reference/#api-Segments-exploreSegmentsin the desired activity_type parameter we are allowed to use only one of the following values: running, riding. I would be grateful for any hint in this matter.Best,Aneta

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11 months ago
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DamienDHub Starter
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Exporting most used route

Hello everyone,I would like to know if and how we could export the most used routes in Belgium by Strava athletes in a way to improve our cities.By using the API, could we get a full list and merge all the routes used by Strava athletes in Belgium? Allowing us then to suggest to municipalities to add some city furnitures on those most used routes such as water fountains, benches, wheel inflator tools,…Thanks for your help to improve our cities and encourage sports!

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LoredanaLHub Starter
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Strava duplicates inconsistent HTTP responses based on Strava account(old/new)

Hi, we discovered a strange behavior when uploading duplicate activities on Strava. We use the endpoint Post /uploads in order to upload activities on Strava and there is a case when for example a user tries to upload twice same activity and we have on our side the following handling: if the response from Strava is 400 and the message response contains "duplicate" we are providing to the user a message saying that "the activity is already uploaded", but we observed that for some accounts when we try to upload duplicates activities we receive 201 from Strava meaning "activity successfully uploaded".Strava accounts observed behavior:for new Strava accounts seems to receive the correct response 400 in case of duplicates (e.g Strava accounts created for example today or 3 days ago)for old Strava accounts we receive 201 in case of duplicate requests (e.g Strava accounts created one year ago or 3 months)but after some time (2 days - 1 week) also for the new accounts we received 201 in case o

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11 months ago
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diegoforeromHub Starter
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Power BI multiple API Connections

Hi folks,Im trying to develop a Power BI dashboard for myself and my group of friends but I’m struggling with trying to get an API connection that returns all Strava activities updated as we add more in time.Probably any of you guys have done something similar before? Could you give me some advises?Help is much appreciated.

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11 months ago
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lemjimenoHub Starter
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Programmatically acquire athlete's authorization code?

I have an app where I would like to get the ytd_run_totals of each member in my club. In order to do this, I understand each club member is supposed to authorize my app to be able to read their data. When the user clicks authorize and the athlete's authorization code is displayed in the proceeding url, is there a way to obtain this code programmatically? Or is the only way to obtain it by having the user communicate this to the developer? 

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11 months ago
diego_dotta
diego_dottaHub Rookie
asked in Developers & API
Issue with Strava Webview for external links

Hi,I created a Strava plugin and am facing a severe issue related to open external links.The Strava Webview has some limitations that make the user experience very bad.Main issue: The scrolling behavior has a severe problem, especially scrolling down. Instead of scrolling it, it's closing the page. See the video here: https://files-us-east-1.t-cdn.net/files/WYYSMFdW2s6zTg7fEhey5There are other small things that this Webview is causing, like pull-to-refresh issues, the vertical size of the screen, and lack of href target _blank. Now that you are launching a messaging feature, this web review may cause problems. Other apps already upgraded to a more modern Webview, or they open the native user browser.Is there anything in the roadmap to upgrade it? Or at least remove that behavior of closing that webview when swiping down?

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diego_dotta
11 months ago
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acjolly21Hub Rookie
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Strava Developer's Program

  Tony5:07 PM (7 minutes ago)               I use the API for a personal program to give me some summary data from my rides. The form requested to be completed ("apply to Strava's developer program) seems to be aimed a companies, not individuals and for commercial applications? I am not able to provide a company name or application. Please confirm I will not lose access to the API I use for personal stats? Thanks,Tony.

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11 months ago
paleloser
paleloserHub Climber
asked in Developers & API
ClubAthlete does not include Athlete ID

This model won't include any athlete identifier, which makes the information a bit useless in the end. Since APIs are made for machines, and machines identify entities differences between IDs, not having them on the returned models make them invaluable.It would be nice if ClubAthlete had the athlete ID included within its definition. This way, apps for clubs, built on top of the Strava API, can easily map and identify the athletes. Otherwise this is impossible, as there's no other way of identifying athletes related somehow to another one who granted access to the app.

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paleloser
11 months ago
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tmikuHub Starter
asked in Developers & API
How to keep client secret secure in public app?

I'm working on a browser-based app using the Strava API that I hope to eventually make publicly available. Originally, I was planning on having all of the communication take place in Javascript in the user's browser. However, since the POST that exchanges the auth code for an access token requires the client secret, so far I have needed to hard-code my client secret in the browser-side JS.This doesn't seem secure, but I'm not sure what the easiest method to secure it is. My first thought was to host a separate API to retrieve access tokens. Once the browser gets an auth code back from Strava, it sends it to the API, and the API talks to Strava to exchange the code for a token, and then sends the token back to the browser.This seems a little convoluted, and even more so if I would need to implement TLS on my new API to secure that communication channel. Is there another recommended way to keep my client secret secure?

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11 months ago
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paloskarHub Rookie
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Athletes currently connected - but lost in app's db

I have a few "Currently connected athletes".The problem is that they got deleted in my app's database. Meaning that I'm not able to access their refresh token or short lived access token, even though I have their permission.Is there a way to retrieve or regenerate their refresh token?So that I can create their profiles in my db again.Second option is having them "create a user" again in my app.Thanks for any suggestion!

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11 months ago
johantiger
johantigerHub Rookie
asked in Developers & API
How long time for developers to answer

Hey, I submitted a question through email to the developers inbox 3 weeks ago and still no answer. Does anyone know what kind of response time I should prepare for? And, if someone on the developers team at Strava reads this, it is regarding ticket #6141Thanks,Johan

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johantiger
11 months ago
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DmitriiHub Rookie
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API /clubs/{id}/activities Issue. 2 people have same name and first surname letter.

Hello. I created a dashboard. I'm using API /clubs/{id}/activities .All is good, but i can't separate two people because they have same name and surname start with same letter. Therefore i got an issue. Pavel S. - it's a two different people.Could you add any id, guid or something else for separate two persons near with firstname?

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11 months ago
lopey66
lopey66Hub Explorer
asked in Developers & API
Color UTF8 Emoji

Something I noticed some time back has been emoji changing from color to shadow/black & white. below is some code I have used in my web applications to enable color emoji to appear as we expect them, like country flags.<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.gstatic.com" crossorigin><link rel="stylesheet" href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/icon?family=Noto+Color+Emoji"><style>@font-face {font-family:Noto Color Emoji;unicode-range:U+1F1E6-1F1FF;}</style>

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11 months ago
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cmenschelHub Rookie
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Upload activity with name that contains utf8 characters like an emoji

I am trying to upload an activity via the API with a custom name that contains special utf8 characters like an emoji. It seems that this is blocked by the API. Once I try that the whole activity won't be processed - but I don't get an API error back. or is something wrong on my side? I am using a standard multipart/form-data upload in Swift

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11 months ago
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FizzlepieHub Rookie
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Invalid Authorization Code After 1 Use

I was trying to develop my code (in Python) to gather my club's data for a data science course project. The issue I have is that I'm learning that once I run the request using the authorization code one time, the second time won't work. Even if I get my access and refresh token, running the code in the main will end up running the function to use the authorization code so it'll become invalid and the code won't run. How do I solve this?Here is a picture to show what I mean: 

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11 months ago
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weiyanHub Starter
asked in Developers & API
redirected after authentication,code loss

oauth/callback/strava&state=ba59db78-5afc-4e45-bdf3-9f4b3ecbf1ed

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fietsicamanHub Starter
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Data analysis app

I have developed a webapp ride analysis using advanced ECP-ExRec models. ECP = Extended Critical Power, ExRec = Acute anaerobic Exhaustion and Recovery.In this stand-alone app, the athlete browses for and uploads his data file in .fit formatI would like to integrate it into Strava as an authorized app. Is it possible to read the full content of a strava data file, such as timestamp, hr, power, alt, cad, etc...?To get an idea of the webapp https://glitch.typhooncycling.me 

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11 months ago

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