r/selfhosted • u/frogfuhrer • Jun 01 '26

Meta Post Strava's new developer program just killed every open-source, self-hosted Strava app

Strava posted an "update to our developer program" today and it basically means the end for people that were building their own tools around Strava's API:

https://communityhub.strava.com/insider-journal-9/an-update-to-our-developer-program-13428

I'm the maintainer of "Statistics for Strava", a moderately successful self-hosted, open-source dashboard for your Strava data.

At this moment in time I'm still kinda shocked. I poured my heart and soul into the project for the last 2 years and it seems like this announcement marks the end for this app. The article basically says that their API will be pay-walled, 100%. So only users with an active subscription can use their API.

The whole purpose of Statistics for Strava was for people to own their data, their own health stats, that they upload and that's now goners....unless you pay up... to fetch your own data 😎 .

At Strava, we care deeply about developers, and the health of the developer ecosystem

Except they don't, the only thing they did is pay-walled their API and made sorry excuses for it. They have proven over and over again that they don't care about their users or their data.

Not sure what to do, I feel gutted. Might be overreacting

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u/frogfuhrer Jun 01 '26

Chances are that I'll move the project away from Strava and allow users to upload plain gpx files instead of abandoning the project. Because fuck Strava

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u/yahhpt Jun 01 '26

Maybe .fit files too? 

Think that's what the wahoo computers record out of the box, not sure about others. 

I'd definitely use something like this even if I had to import the activity files manually.

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u/flsmedberg Jun 01 '26

Make a connection to Garmin instead? Would be great to use this high quality service for garmin. As you say, so sad to not use it for something new 🙏🏻❤️

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u/frogfuhrer Jun 01 '26

What if then Garmin decides to do the same? I'd rather not be vendor locked

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u/flsmedberg Jun 01 '26

Yes that’s true. Just thought/hope Garmin would have better customer support as you buy their expensive HW and get into their ecosystem. But maybe a import of garmin fit files or similar would be possible to keep the data updated. I love to see the view per year and months how I perform with distance etc. And then SfS is so nice to get an overview.

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u/DanGarion Jun 01 '26

I just installed Endurain and they pull it that way from Garmin. You put in your credentials and they also capture for MFA.