Mitchell Long

Strava Data Analysis

---

Basic Idea

This project is intended to observe some of your personal strava stats and allow for simple data analysis.

This project will walk you through setting up this interface to interact with this data.

---

Instructions

1. Go to https://www.strava.com/settings/api and sign in.

2. Create a new application here and remember the credentials

   Within the project directory create a new file called .env. Within this file we will put your Api credentials.

   Put the following into the file:

   CLIENT_ID=[YOUR_CLIENT_ID]
   CLIENT_SECRET=[YOUR_CLIENT_SECRET]

   **Note: You will not need to add quotes around the variables

3. Go to the following url (albeit replace [REPLACE_WITH_YOUR_CLIENT_ID] with your client_id from the credentials in the second step)

   http://www.strava.com/oauth/authorize?client_id=[REPLACE_WITH_YOUR_CLIENT_ID]&response_type=code&redirect_uri=http://localhost/exchange_token&approval_prompt=force&scope=profile:read_all,activity:read_all

   On this page click Authorize to allow the Api to view and distribute your data.

   This will redirect you to another page with a url matching:

   http://localhost/exchange_token?state=&code=[THIS_IS_THE_CODE_YOU_NEED_TO_COPY]&scope=read,activity:read_all,profile:read_all

   Copy down the [THIS_IS_THE_CODE_YOU_NEED_TO_COPY] portion.

4. Open up a terminal or powershell, move into the project directory and run the following commands

python -m pip install -r requirements.txt
python initialSetup.py **[THIS_IS_THE_CODE_YOU_NEED_TO_COPY]**
python app.py

5. Open up your browser and visit localhost:8050

**Note: This process can be repeated if the refresh_token doesn't work for whatever reason

---

Credits

The requests for the strava api and all related logic was published here by Benji Knights Johnson.