strava-offline 1.0.0b4

"Leep a local mirror of Strava activities for further analysis/processing"

strava-offline

Overview

strava-offline is a tool to keep a local mirror of Strava activities for further analysis/processing:

• synchronizes metadata about your bikes and activities to an SQLite database

• downloads all your activities as GPX (and supports not downloading bulk exported activities again)

Example of what you can do with the data:

Installation

pipx ensurepath
pipx install --spec git+https://github.com/liskin/strava-offline strava-offline

To keep a local git clone around:

git clone https://github.com/liskin/strava-offline
make -C strava-offline pipx

Alternatively, if you don't need the isolated virtualenv that pipx provides, feel free to just:

pip install git+https://github.com/liskin/strava-offline

Setup and usage

• Run strava-offline sqlite. The first time you do this, it will open Strava in a browser and ask for permissions. The token is then saved and it proceeds to sync activities metadata (this may take a couple dozen seconds the first time). Next time you run this, it uses the saved token and incrementally syncs latest activities (this takes a few seconds).

• Now you can use sqlite3 to query the activity database, which is placed at ~/.local/share/strava_offline/strava.sqlite by default. Try for example:

  sqlite3 ~/.local/share/strava_offline/strava.sqlite \
    "SELECT CAST(SUM(distance)/1000 AS INT) || ' km' FROM activity"
  

• For GPX downloading, you'll need to get the _strava4_session cookie from your web browser session. Open https://strava.com/ in your browser and then follow a guide for your browser to obtain the cookie value:

  • Chrome
  • Firefox
  • Edge

• You may also need to obtain your own Client ID and Client Secret from https://www.strava.com/settings/api because the built-in ID/Secret is shared with other users and may hit rate limits (HTTP 429 Too Many Requests). Pass these as --client-id and --client-secret command line arguments or export as STRAVA_CLIENT_ID and STRAVA_CLIENT_SECRET environment variables.

  Alternatively, you may just wait a couple minutes and try again, but the rate limits are rather strict, so in the unlikely event this tool gets popular, serious users will have to get their own API application registered.

  (That settings page also lists Your Access Token but this won't let you download private activities or see names of bikes. Therefore its use is not supported in strava-offline.)

Mirror activities metadata

$ strava-offline sqlite --help
usage: strava-offline sqlite [-h] [--client-id XXX] [--client-secret XXX]
                             [--token-file FILE] [--http-host HOST]
                             [--http-port PORT] [--full] [--database FILE]

Synchronize bikes and activities metadata to local sqlite3 database. Unless
--full is given, the sync is incremental, i.e. only new activities are
synchronized and deletions aren't detected.

optional arguments:
  -h, --help           show this help message and exit
  --full               perform full sync instead of incremental

Strava API:
  --client-id XXX      strava oauth2 client id (default:
                       getenv('STRAVA_CLIENT_ID') or a built-in default)
  --client-secret XXX  strava oauth2 client secret (default:
                       getenv('STRAVA_CLIENT_SECRET') or a built-in default)
  --token-file FILE    strava oauth2 token store (default:
                       /home/user/.config/strava_offline/token.json)
  --http-host HOST     oauth2 http server host (default: 127.0.0.1)
  --http-port PORT     oauth2 http server port (default: 12345)

strava-offline database:
  --database FILE      sqlite database file (default:
                       /home/user/.local/share/strava_offline/strava.sqlite)

Mirror activities as GPX

Important: To avoid overloading Strava servers (and possibly getting noticed), first download all your existing activities using the Bulk Export feature of Strava. Then use --dir-activities-backup at least once to let strava-offline reuse these downloaded files.

$ strava-offline gpx --help
usage: strava-offline gpx [-h] [--strava4-session XX] [--dir-activities DIR]
                          [--dir-activities-backup DIR] [--database FILE]

Download known (previously synced using the "sqlite" command) activities in
GPX format. It's recommended to only use this incrementally to download the
latest activities every day or week, and download the bulk of your historic
activities directly from Strava. Use --dir-activities-backup to avoid
downloading activities already downloaded in the bulk.

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit

Strava web:
  --strava4-session XX  '_strava4_session' cookie value (default:
                        getenv('STRAVA_COOKIE_STRAVA4_SESSION'))

strava-offline gpx storage:
  --dir-activities DIR  directory to store gpx files indexed by activity id
                        (default: strava_data/activities)
  --dir-activities-backup DIR
                        optional path to activities in Strava backup (no need
                        to redownload these)

strava-offline database:
  --database FILE       sqlite database file (default:
                        /home/user/.local/share/strava_offline/strava.sqlite)

Donations (♥ = €)

If you like this tool and wish to support its development and maintenance, please consider a small donation or recurrent support through GitHub Sponsors.

By donating, you'll also support the development of my other projects. You might like these:

• https://github.com/liskin/strava-map-switcher - Map switcher for Strava website
• https://github.com/liskin/locus-graphhopper-gpx - Convert GraphHopper JSON to GPX with Locus nav. instructions
• https://github.com/liskin/leaflet-tripreport - A simple tool for visualization of bikepacking trips, both planned and ridden