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Multiple webhook subscriptions for different environments (prod/staging/dev) with a single Client ID

  • March 18, 2026
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Hi,

I'm building an application using the Strava Webhook Events API and I'm running into an environment isolation issue.

The problem: Strava only allows one active webhook subscription per Client ID. This makes it impossible to run separate webhook callbacks for different environments (production, staging, development) simultaneously — registering a new subscription either fails with a 409 or overwrites the previous one.

Our setup:

  • One Strava API application (single Client ID / Client Secret)
  • Three environments: production, staging, local dev
  • Each environment needs to receive webhook events independently

What we've tried:

  • Using different callback URLs per environment → only one can be active at a time
  • Registering/deleting subscriptions on deploy → creates race conditions and breaks other environments

What we'd like to know:

  1. Is there an official recommended pattern for handling multiple environments with the Strava webhook API?
  2. Is there a way to get multiple Client IDs for the same application (e.g. one per environment)?
  3. Is a "fan-out" proxy approach (one endpoint that dispatches to multiple environments) the intended workaround?

Any guidance from the team or community would be appreciated. Thanks!