Strava-Backup

Get your data back from Strava.

Strava has an export options, but it will only give you the GPX files that Strava produces after analyzing your uploads.

Thankfully, there is a hidden option to download the original file for individual activities. However, this is only available on the website and not via the API.

This tool uses the API to get a list of all your events, then web scraping to log into the site using your username and password and download the original files for all your activities.

The "original file" will usually be either a *.fit file (most Garmin devices), *.tcx, *.gpx, or *.json (Strava mobile application).

The tool will also output a *.meta.json file for every activity that includes more information on the activity (name, description, type, distance, equipment, etc).

Additionally, the tool will backup your shoes and bikes information, as well as any photos that have been added to activities.

Authentication

Accessing the Strava API requires a short-term access token. In order access your account on an ongoing basis, strava-backup requires a long-term "refresh token" and some other information with which it can generate access tokens. For more information see the Strava API authentication documentation.

A "refresh token" can be generated using a separate program such as strava-tokengen.

In order to back up your data, strava-backup can use the following scopes (all optional):

• profile:read_all ("View your complete Strava profile"): Will read and backup gear data
• activity:read ("View data about your activities"): Will read and backup activity data
• activity:read_all ("View data about your private activities"): Will read and backup private activity data

Accessing the activity data requires web scraping which requires logging into the website. This requires either a username and password, or a JWT token from a previously-authenticated session. Note that JWT tokens expire periodically so providing a username and password is required for running the backup on an ongoing basis.

Setup

Use pip to install this package:

pip install strava-backup

By default, strava-backup will look for a config file called strava-backup.conf in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/, falling back to ~/.config/ if it's unset. An alternate file can be specified using the --config option.

A sample config file has been included in this package. Copy it to the correct spot and fill in the required information.

Running

strava-backup is an incremental backup. It tracks what has already been downloaded by looking at the output directory and doesn't download it again.

To download all new data, simply run strava-backup. See strava-backup --help for other options. To backup data on an ongoing basis, configure your system to call strava-backup periodically (see the /contrib folder for examples).