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JamesChevalier · May 10, 2020, 1:50pm

The list is long, so I’ve put it inside a show/hide toggle:

List of Activity URLs

If a date list is better, I can do that - I’d just need to know the format that would be best for you e.g. 2020-01-01 or whatever.
I’m sending off that activity URL to Garmin support now. I’ll let you know what I hear back.

hjkiddk · May 10, 2020, 2:52pm

Regarding download all Garmin GPX files. Here’s is some instructions i found.
I would recommend doing the date filter and download one year at the time.
and when you save it on your computer put each year in a seperate folder.
Disclaimer: I have no idea how this works, but it does

All activities can be downloaded using this script.

Use in web-browser console (shortcut: F12), tested in Firefox.

Set the limit=200 to match your activities count.

When downloading larger files, set more wait time: t+=10000.

Login to Connect website.

Download 1 GPX file by hand, and click on the checkbox to download all GPX files without asking.

Now open the console and check “Persist Logs” (to keep logs about all files).

Paste the script and press Enter.

jQuery.getJSON(
    'https://connect.garmin.com/modern/proxy/activitylist-service/activities/search/activities?limit=250',
    function(act_list)
    {
        var t=0;
        act_list.forEach(
        function(act)
            {
                setTimeout(function() {
                    console.dir(act['activityId'], act['activityName'], act['startTimeLocal']);
                    location = 'https://connect.garmin.com/modern/proxy/download-service/export/gpx/activity/' + act['activityId'];
                }, t+=5000);
            }
        );
    }
);

add the &start parameter, for example this will start from 201th activity (counting from latest):
.../search/activities?limit=200&start=200

It’s normal search link, so it will also accept all filters visible on the website, so you can add also:
&activityType=running&startDate=2017-01-01&endDate=2017-12-31

aidangrant · May 10, 2020, 6:33pm

Thanks James. I assume that is the list only of activities imported from Garmin, as I had about 500 which had already come in from Strava? I think to be able to compare and spot what is missing I’d need a list with both (plus any that cam in from Runkeeper while I had that live, I guess… though not sure if many / any did!). If you could produce that, with dates (Y-M-D is fine), that would be amazing!

JamesChevalier · May 10, 2020, 6:35pm

Ah, right, because the Garmin sync would skip any pre-existing activities. (I’ve actually got all the services skipping exact-date matches now)

Yeah I can get that list.

aidangrant · May 11, 2020, 8:20am

Thanks Henrik. Couldn’t follow all the instructions though… “Download 1 GPX file by hand, and click on the checkbox to download all GPX files without asking”. The only way I can find to download a gpx is to go into the activity and do it from the gear icon. This has no checkbox to download all?

Is the above all aimed at downloading all GPX data? I’m really just wanting a list of activities… like when you hit “Export CSV” from the activities page, but with all of them, instead of just those shown on the page at the time.

hjkiddk · May 11, 2020, 9:29am

For the csv file, you just have to keeping scrolling down until all activities are loaded on the page, before you click download the csv.

aidangrant · May 11, 2020, 10:01am

I thought that was the case. Not had the patience to scroll through over 1,000 lines yet though!

aidangrant · May 11, 2020, 10:03am

Though just had an idea - click on scroll wheel and leave it scrolling itself while I do something else!

aidangrant · May 11, 2020, 11:07am

That’s worked anyway. I now have a full list of garmin activities to match against the ones in here, if I can get a full list of those too.

On a slightly different note: I just uploaded a bunch of old (like from around 2011) walks which I had GPX files for into Garmin. Should these sync automatically into CS?
For some reason they have all gone in as Uncategorized instead of Hike, eg - Garmin Connect. Not sure why, as they all have hiking in the GPX. Will this affect whether they load up into CS?

JamesChevalier · May 11, 2020, 12:25pm

Hm, yeah, it only sync in activities of a certain type (list in first post )

I should be able to get that list to you today

aidangrant · May 11, 2020, 12:37pm

Thanks James - I’ll try and work out how to make them all hikes. It should go back and sync them OK after that then, yeah?

rietveld.bauke · May 11, 2020, 12:57pm

I have recently switched from Strava syncing to Garmin syncing and it seems to work well!

One thing I have noticed, is that if I go to my LifeMap without logging into CS I only see the runs previously synced from Strava, and none of the new Garmin runs. When I log in I see the complete map.

I’m guessing its some privacy setting I (accidentally) set for the Garmin connection? Only I cannot find where I can adjust this. Should I remove and remake the connection, or is there a better solution?

Thanks!

JamesChevalier · May 11, 2020, 2:00pm

Garmin does not provide privacy information for activities ( ) so if your CityStrides account privacy is “Per Activity” then I really have no choice but to mark those activities as private.

You can either manually set those activities to public, or you can set your CityStrides account to public.

I don’t currently listen to “update” notifications, but I can/should add that code.
At the moment, I would need to manually run a backfill request for the specific dates of the activities (each request can be up to a 90-day block of time).

aidangrant · May 11, 2020, 2:17pm

Tbh, there’s only a few of them I need adding to CS, so I’ll probably just do specific loads from Strava for those, as long as they go from Garmin to Strava OK.

Sarah · May 11, 2020, 2:31pm

Joined 2 weeks ago, became a supporter last week.
Started with the Strava syncing, then switched to Garmin last week.
Only half of my historic activities have loaded (missing around 250 between 9/2014-9/2019.) Added a Garmin account in June 2019, so most of this is Strava…
I currently have Garmin paused to load the Strava activities.
All new activities load perfectly.

Any suggestions for how I should move forward?

P.S. Thank you for all your hard work! This site is exactly what I’ve been looking for!

JamesChevalier · May 11, 2020, 4:43pm

With Garmin paused, that history sync is not going to work.
Strava is going to take a long while.

I’m trying to understand exactly what happened:

joined 2 weeks ago with Strava
added Garmin last week
your Garmin history didn’t show up so you paused it?
new activities are syncing from Strava

I’m confused about where your historic activities reside and where your future activities will come from.
Knowing this, I can help direct you.

Sarah · May 11, 2020, 5:14pm

Strava holds history back to 2014. Garmin only has history back to 6/2019.
I originally started with Strava on CityStrides. Within that first week, only 20 activities loaded and most were 2019-current.
I decided to help support this great website, so I became a supporter and saw Garmin syncs available, which would free up the Strava load. I paused Strava (I’m guessing this is where I went wrong- pausing the new user data before it was done…) and began Garmin.
After a few days, Garmin pulled in another 210 activities… most of my Garmin activity. Great!!!
Thinking maybe now the burden is less for the historic Strava, I paused Garmin so Strava could pull in 2014-2019 data. Now only new activities are loading, as if all historic got paused when I switched from Garmin to Strava. There are still about 250 running/hiking/walking activities not showing on CS.

I’d like to use Garmin going forward, but I’m still missing half my Strava history (which most doesn’t exist on my Garmin.)

I hope this helps!

aidangrant · May 11, 2020, 6:14pm

On that activity type point - do you store the type within CS? Don’t know if it’s already been discussed, but could be a nice feature to eb able to filter in/out runs & walks (& dare I suggest bike rides? )

JamesChevalier · May 11, 2020, 6:25pm

Yes! A bunch! Thank you.

Pausing Garmin while it (potentially) wasn’t complete in bringing in that history made it so that it definitely will not bring in that history. I’ll need to do some manual stuff to get any missing Garmin activities now – not a huge issue, because I think I’m starting to see some patterns where this will be required anyway.

One problematic piece to this is that, right now, I’ve disabled history syncing for non-new Strava accounts. It’s not a big effort to manually re-start that for you though - just share your profile link and I can get that going. You will need to keep Strava un-paused for this to work (as the code is right now).
You could keep both Garmin & Strava unpaused, and new activities will be imported by whichever service notifies CityStrides first (likely Garmin). This would decrease your new activity API calls by 1 (not much, but it’s something). If you expect to eventually use Garmin exclusively, then that would make sense.

Thanks for working through all the confusing bits - I obviously haven’t sorted all of this out yet.

I do! I normalize all the different service’s naming schemes down to simply “running” and “walking” to make it easier on myself … I had that much forethought, at least (for the filtering options you mention).

I’ve gotten a fair amount of requests for it Have a city pedal/bike site … it’s still (from my perspective) quite an amount of work, to make sure that cycling activities are separate from running/walking.

Sarah · May 11, 2020, 8:23pm

Thank you so much! This is an amazing site!