# Activity position in waiting to import list **URL:** https://community.citystrides.com/t/activity-position-in-waiting-to-import-list/19903 **Category:** Ideas **Created:** [April 11, 2020, 4:01pm UTC](https://community.citystrides.com/t/activity-position-in-waiting-to-import-list/19903 "2020-04-11T16:01:36Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 9
### Author: ![ericjrw](https://community.citystrides.com/user_avatar/community.citystrides.com/ericjrw/32/1065_2.png) [@ericjrw](https://community.citystrides.com/u/ericjrw) #### Post date: [April 12, 2020, 5:52am UTC](https://community.citystrides.com/t/activity-position-in-waiting-to-import-list/19903/9 "2020-04-12T05:52:19Z")
> [@f05f244860901569362a](#): > > I know I’ve asked this before but I don’t think I actually saw an answer. Why not go directly to Garmin and get the data from them? The last thing I saw on this is that Garmin charges a one-time fee of $5,000 for access to their API… However, I read somewhere else, that Garmin **dropped the fee**. This page very well may bare that out: [https://developer.garmin.com/health-api/overview/](https://developer.garmin.com/health-api/overview/) (details of what’s covered in the API are at that link too) ### GET THE API Access to our Health API is **free** to approved developers. I guess the trick is becoming an “approved” developer. 😉 _But the one thing I am most curious about is_, would switching to **MapMyFitness** or **Runkeeper** help? I find CityStrides more enjoyable than Strava, though I would miss the metrics. But maybe they are there in the Garmin app? I was using the Strava app before I had my Garmin, so kept rolling (and running) with Strava. If one is “better” than the other, which one? I have no experience with either. [edit] It was [hjkiddk](https://community.citystrides.com/u/hjkiddk) that originally posted about the [API is free](https://community.citystrides.com/t/interested-in-direct-garmin-integration/14193/4), in the “[poll thread](https://community.citystrides.com/t/interested-in-direct-garmin-integration/14193/)” It was bugging me that I could not remember where I saw that. --- _[View the full topic](https://community.citystrides.com/t/activity-position-in-waiting-to-import-list/19903)._