Standard Tier — Confirming full access to core activity/athlete/webhook endpoints

These endpoints work and you wouldn’t necessarily need other endpoints if you only want to load activities.

If you plan to connect more than the default 10 Strava users, be aware of the retention rule of maximum 7 days for data downloaded from the Strava API.

Follow-up on the 7-day retention rule: does it apply only to raw API responses, or also to derived values I extract and store myself (e.g. distance + date per activity), and would rolling those into monthly aggregate totals (then discarding per-activity rows) be a compliant way to keep multi-year leaderboard history?

Distance and date are part of the API response. Aggregated totals aren’t explicitely mentioned in the retention rules, so technically it would be allowed but Strava is free to reject it anyway since they don’t need or communicate reasons for rejections.

Thanks for the earlier clarification on raw fields vs. aggregates.

Practical question this raises: if I'm running a competition (e.g., a team leaderboard) over a full month or longer, and I can't retain raw activity data (distance, date, etc.) beyond 7 days, how is a month-long competition supposed to function at all?

My current plan to work around this:

• Store only a strava_activity_id reference + my own computed points value per activity (not the raw distance/date fields)
• For any live view of a member's activity history, fetch it fresh from the API each time, rather than storing it

Is this "store points, not raw fields" approach the intended way developers are expected to build month-long competitions under this policy? Or is there a supported/documented pattern for competitions spanning longer than 7 days that I'm missing — e.g., a specific endpoint or permission tier meant for this exact use case?

Trying to understand if I'm working around a limitation correctly, or if there's a more direct way this is meant to be handled.

Apps aren’t supposed to provide leaderboards because that threatens Strava’s income model where most leaderboards are behind paywalls. There may be exceptions but Strava never really made public under which circumstances they grant one.