Developers & API

Hi, since the athlete number limit has already been reached, I would like to revoke some inactive athletes, but their refresh tokens are already invalid. What should I do?

Hi everyone I’m the developer of a fitness app integrated with Strava, and I’d like to ask for some advice from the community.Our app has grown to ~999 connected athletes, and we recently applied to increase our athlete limit to 10,000. Unfortunately, the request has not been approved yet, even though user growth is ongoing and we’re close to hitting the current cap.I’m curious to hear from others: Has anyone here successfully gotten their athlete limit increased beyond 1,000? How long did the approval process take in your case? Were there any specific metrics, usage patterns, or implementation details (e.g. webhooks, deauthorization flow, caching strategy) that helped with approval? Any insights or shared experiences would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance 🙏

4) Submit for Review So now you’ve got a popular app that’s lookin’ sharp? Congrats! You’re probably ready to get your rate limit raised. Fill out our Developer Program form for review and be sure to include screenshots of all the places Strava data is shown and the “Connect with Strava” button in your application. https://share.hsforms.com/1VXSwPUYqSH6IxK0y51FjHwcnkd8

I have a few questions about the following rate limits:Overall Rate Limits: 600 requests every 15 minutes, 6,000 dailyRead Rate Limits: 300 requests every 15 minutes, 3,000 dailyDoes the read limit apply when polling the API to check whether an activity upload has finished processing via the uploads/{uploadId} endpoint? Does the read limit apply when checking to see if an activity is still uploaded, again using the uploads/{uploadId} endpoint? We're doing this to ensure that we can deeplink users to activities that still exist in Strava Is it possible to increase this limit?Thank you!

Hi there - I’m posting to request an expedited review for increasing my athlete limit.While I understand your website indicates a 7-10 business day timeframe, the strong momentum my app is experiencing makes a quicker review crucial.We hit our rate limit less (max. 999 athletes connected, 3k read limits/day) less than 24 hours since launching.Sustaining growth and user engagement relies on maintaining this momentum, but the current API limit has effectively halted its progress. My email is me@timwijaya.com  - this is the email used to submit my form again.

I read through the activity documentation for the STRAVA API and do not see any fields to retrieve the participant IDs for other participants of a group run. Is this not in the API or is there another way to identify which participants complete activities together?  

I have been working on a strava app and I have been the only tester.  I’m at a point that I need additional testers so I just submitted a request for this.As far as switching between local and staging environments, I’ve had to switch Strava Callback Domain manually between localhost and staging. Once I get approval for additional testers I won’t be able to do this manually.  Appreciate any insights for how I can make this work for both and not have to manually switch Strava’s callback domain.Thank you in advance!

Hi there, I noticed with a newer Strava update the team has provided the ability for users on event creation to add pace groups and the type of event (format) e.g. social but these fields aren’t available yet via the API are there plans to add them or is there a new endpoint that hasn’t been added to the docs that exposes these fields?Thanks, keep up the good work - Calvin 

Anyone else having issues trying to view their app in the My API Application Page? I keep getting an error message saying “Something has gone wrong”. Wondering if anyone else is having this issue?  

I’m in the middle of building a mobile app and would ideally like to test it with 10-20 athletes.  I’ve already submitted a request to increase my number of athletes but it got me wondering if I’m authenticating properly.  I’m seeing reports that strava will increase the number up to 999, but that still seems like a low number making me wonder if there is a smarter way to authenticate within the app so that multiple athletes can use the app for testing.  Maybe open the connection, get the data, and drop the connection quickly so that multiple athletes can use it? 

Since yesterday, site is not loading, having some JS errors in console. 

Hi Strava Developer Support Team,I hope you’re doing well.My name is Gustavo, founder and head coach of IgnitRun, a training platform designed to help runners and endurance athletes monitor their progress with evidence-based coaching tools.We currently use the Strava API to sync our athletes’ activities, allowing them to review their training load, volume, and intensity distribution while working closely with their coach. This integration is essential for the value we provide to our community.Our application (Client ID 74947) is currently limited to only one connected athlete, which prevents us from properly launching the platform. We kindly request an increase to at least 200 connected athletes for our initial rollout phase. These slots will be used exclusively for verified club members.For your reference, our platform can be reviewed here:https://app.ignitrun.com/We are fully aligned with Strava’s API policies, and we do not resell or misuse athlete data—our goal is simply to enhance

Hi team,I'm the founder of IgnitRun, a coaching platform that uses the Strava API to help runners track volume and intensity with their trainers. Our app is live here: https://app.ignitrun.com/Right now, our project (Client ID 74947) is limited to only 1 connected athlete, which blocks our launch. We kindly request an increase to 200 athletes for our initial rollout.We comply fully with Strava’s API policies and only use the data to support our athletes’ training—not for resale.Thanks in advance for your help!

It looks like that there is no such option. But I think it may be a great addition for any club to have an option to least events on their website/app and even have a button for people to join their events. Could propel event usage a lot and improve quite a few metrics.Totally separate thing but another missing feature from user's perspective is to join Repeated events. With two options: Join this event and all following events, join only this this event. The same for leaving the events.Both these features will increase Event-related metrics drastically

We are using https://www.strava.com/oauth/authorize?client_id=...&response_type=code&redirect_uri=https://ictrainer.com&approval_prompt=force&scope=activity:write%2Cactivity:readto login the user initially. But if an user was loged in in the browser yet the login for the new user does not force a new login. How can we force this? All other platforms allows in the oauth-authorization process that the complete user login is forced. 

I have a functioning webhook but need to update the callback URL as this will be changing. First I tried simply creating a new subscription but found I couldn’t since you can’t have more than 1 active at a time. So then I tried to delete the existing subscription to recreate it - but running into the following error:{ "message": "Resource Not Found", "errors": [ { "resource": "PushSubscription", "field": "", "code": "not found" } ]}I have double checked that it’s the right sub id using the GET request to https://www.strava.com/api/v3/push_subscriptions.This query is successful which also rules out an issue with my client_id and client_secret (I am using postman and leveraging variables so know they are the same).Body is set to None. Here is the query: https://www.strava.com/api/v3/push_subscriptions/[my_id]?client_id={{client_id}}&client_secret={{client_secret}}

How is this STILL not a feature in 2025. JFC of all the features y’all keep developing this would move the needle SO FAR for your power users. Literally every bike shop, club, cycling community in the world would use this feature. How many times do we have to ask for this. 

HelloPlease help us checking if everything is correct with our API acces by "data" app.When we call to API for example to List Athlete Activities, returns error: {"message":"Authorization Error","errors":[{"resource":"AccessToken","field":"activity:read_permission","code":"missing"}]}We've try to :- correct access permission by Revoking Acces to "data" app and Allowing again - we gets the same error- Generate New Client Secret - works fine, refreshing token works fine but at the end again the same error 

For an url like https://www.strava.com/api/v3/activities/{id}/streams?keys=time,latlng,altitude,heartrate,cadence,distance,moving,wattsI’m currently seeing the following response headers:  content-type, content-length, connection, date, server, vary, x-envoy-upstream-service-time, x-cache, via, x-amz-cf-pop, and x-amz-cf-id, but *not* the rate limit headers described at https://developers.strava.com/docs/rate-limits/ What gives? Is the documentation out of date? Have the rate limit headers been deprecated? Am I seeing proxy-cached content that strips the rate limit headers or something like that? If the rate-limit headers are absent, does that mean the request doesn’t count against quotas?

I have created a miniapp in Farcaster, and I am using one API… I am getting issues to get users authorizate Strava via my app, do I need special rights?  Thanks in advance!

Hi everyone,I’m experiencing an issue with the Strava OAuth mobile authorization flow.I have a system that automatically updates each Strava activity’s description with a URL to my platform: https://pacerai.vn/.When users click this link inside the Strava activity description (in the mobile app), they are taken to my website. After that, they tap the “Login with Strava” button, which redirects to:https://www.strava.com/oauth/mobile/authorizeProblem:When users come from a Strava activity description → open my link → tap “Login with Strava”, the redirect to Strava’s OAuth page does not work.However, if users manually open Safari → type in https://pacerai.vn/ → tap “Login with Strava”, then the redirect to https://www.strava.com/oauth/mobile/authorize works normally.This means the issue only happens when the initial page is opened from a Strava activity description link.I’m not sure what the root cause is (possible app webview restriction?), so any help or clarification would be greatly a

Hello! I have noticed that if I start an activity on the Strava app on my Pixel watch 2, it times out at 9 minutes Has anyone experienced this? And any ideas on how to fix it? 

 Hi everyone,I am working on the integration of our Decathlon Coach with Strava. We are uploading activities via FIT files.We are facing a persistent issue regarding how Strava calculates Moving Time versus Elapsed Time, leading to incorrect stats for our users.The Context: Our users record running activities using our app. Often, these are continuous runs with no pauses (the user never hits the pause button). Consequently, our FIT files contain the trackpoints and the total Elapsed Time, but no specific "Pause" or "Resume" events.The Problem: Upon upload, Strava ignores the duration recorded in the file and attempts to recalculate the Moving Time based on the GPS data. Because of GPS drift or slower sections, Strava’s algorithm interprets parts of the run as "resting time" and removes them.The Result: Real Data: 10km run in 1h00 (Pace: 6:00/km). Strava Display: 10km run in 55min (Pace: 5:30/km). The "Moving Time" is significantly shorter than reality, artificially inflating the aver

I noticed that some (not all) user profile pictures from cloudfront.net (DetailedAthlete’s ‘profile’ and ‘profile_medium’ urls) now return an access denied error.Is this a bug or a new privacy feature (that renders the DetailedAthlete profile urls useless)?Many older profile urls from cloudfront.net still work fine...

Dear all, I have noticed a recent change in the “Athlete Stats” API: it is returning partial values for distance and elevation (not the same values that are visible on the profile page on Strava, as this API alway did in the past).Also I’m getting decimal values (see below in red). I believe something went wrong here. stdClass Object( [biggest_ride_distance] => 170760 [biggest_climb_elevation_gain] => 1871 [recent_ride_totals] => stdClass Object ( [count] => 15 [distance] => 991064.08984375 [moving_time] => 135009 [elapsed_time] => 140781 [elevation_gain] => 11017 [achievement_count] => 198 ) [all_ride_totals] => stdClass Object ( [count] => 1581 [distance] => 72496554.40332 [moving_time] => 12023480 [elapsed_time] => 13179871 [elevation_gain] => 1140429.4384117 ) [recent_run_tota