STRAVA export fix

Simple Python script to unzip any GZ archives and convert tcx activities to the unified gpx format. After the conversion the tool updates your activities.csv filenames accordingly, the tool can be safely executed on the already converted activities.

Requirements

• GPSbabel:
  • RHEL/Centos sudo yum install gpsbabel
  • Ubuntu sudo apt-get install gpsbabel
  • Windows: download and mare sure the script can reach path or copy the gpsbabel.exe to the repo root
• Python 3.4+ (tested on Windows and Linux)
• Strava archive file containing folder activites.csv and folder activities with individual files.

How to get all Strava tracks

• Login to strava.com
• Go to your profile, click My Account, click Download or Delete Your Data then Get Started button. Don't worry nothing gets deleted.
• Under point 2 click button Request Your Archive.
• You should receive within an email within a few hours with a link to your ZIP archive
• Download the archive

How to use this tool

• Clone this repository
• Unzip thee strava zip file into unzipped folder
• You may see in the folder miscellaneous file extensions .tcx, .tcx.gz or .gpx.gz files, eg.

$ cd /home/jarda/WORKING/
$ clone https://github.com/lhotakj/stravaexport-fix.git
...
$ unzip <your-downloaded-archive -d ./unzipped
...
$ cd ./stravaexport-fix/unzipped/activities/
$ ls
1008247839.gpx  1019050643.gpx  1022095894.gpx.gz  1029478699.gpx.gz  1440081027.tcx.gz  1440081322.tcx.gz  1440081476.tcx.gz

• Run ./run.py or eg. C:\Python37\python run.py under Windows
• You should be getting the following progress:

$ ./run.py
Reading './unzipped/activities.csv'
Found <number> activities
Unzipping ...
Progress:  100%
Normalizing ...
./unzipped/activities/1008247839.gpx    | Ride         | <activity name>
./unzipped/activities/1019050643.gpx    | Walk         | <activity name>
...
...
./unzipped/activities/1022095894.gpx    | Ride         | <activity name>
./unzipped/activities/1029478699.gpx    | Ride         | <activity name>
./unzipped/activities/1440081027.gpx    | Ride         | <activity name>
Backing up the original activities as './unzipped/activities.csv.original' ...
Saving new activities ...

• All your activities in activities folder are now in .gpx format

Future development

• Adding name and activity type to converted .tcx files - coming soon
• Improved error handling
• Export the activities to XLS(X) files
• Parametrized execution

Known issues

• None :) If you encounter any issue, feel free to report it in the GitHub issues.