schweizmobil-gpx 0.1.0

Package to download all your saved GPX tours from schweizmobil.ch

schweizmobil_gpx

Download all your saved GPX tours from schweizmobil.ch in one go.

📍 Background

Schweizmobil is a popular platform for planning hiking, biking, and other outdoor tours in Switzerland. I had over 100 personal tours saved and wanted to download them automatically instead of one by one manually.

🧠 What This Package Does

• Uses your personal auth cookie to access your account
• Fetches all saved tours
• Downloads each one as a .gpx file into a folder of your choice

🛠 Installation

You can install this using pip.

pip install schweizmobil_gpx

🧾 Usage

1. Get your authentication cookie

Using Chrome:

• Log into schweizmobil.ch
• Right-click → Inspect (or press Cmd + Option + I)
• Go to the Application tab
• Under Cookies, click the https://www.schweizmobil.ch domain
• Look for a cookie named auth
• Copy its value — a long string of letters and symbols

2. Run the downloader

from schweizmobil_gpx import download_gpx_tours download_gpx_tours("your_auth_cookie_here")

*All .gpx files will be saved in the current directory.

📂 Output

Each file is saved as a .gpx and named after your tour:

Example: Pilatus_Hike.gpx Bike_Ride_Zurich.gpx

📦 Requirements

This package depends on:

• requests

🔐 License

Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0).

🚧 Notes

• This is an unofficial tool, not affiliated with SchweizMobil
• Requires a valid cookie from a logged-in session
• Works best with saved tours in your personal account