Warning: unable to fetch athlete profile; skipping reset (403 Client Error: Forbidden for url: https://www.strava.com/api/v3/athlete)

[LimeBlast]

The sync has started failing with the error below. I assume this is probably related to my token expiring, but I'm not sure what I need to do to refresh it (or if there's a way for the token to last longer)

Traceback (most recent call last):
Warning: unable to fetch athlete profile; skipping reset (403 Client Error: Forbidden for url: https://www.strava.com/api/v3/athlete)
  File "/home/runner/work/git-sweaty/git-sweaty/scripts/run_pipeline.py", line 303, in <module>
    raise SystemExit(main())
                     ^^^^^^
  File "/home/runner/work/git-sweaty/git-sweaty/scripts/run_pipeline.py", line 293, in main
    run_pipeline(
  File "/home/runner/work/git-sweaty/git-sweaty/scripts/run_pipeline.py", line 265, in run_pipeline
    summary = _sync_for_source(source, dry_run=dry_run, prune_deleted=prune_deleted)
              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/home/runner/work/git-sweaty/git-sweaty/scripts/run_pipeline.py", line 215, in _sync_for_source
    return sync_strava(dry_run=dry_run, prune_deleted=prune_deleted)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/home/runner/work/git-sweaty/git-sweaty/scripts/sync_strava.py", line 692, in sync_strava
    recent_summary, token = _sync_recent(
                            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/home/runner/work/git-sweaty/git-sweaty/scripts/sync_strava.py", line 625, in _sync_recent
    activities, token = _run_with_token_refresh(
                        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/home/runner/work/git-sweaty/git-sweaty/scripts/sync_strava.py", line 354, in _run_with_token_refresh
    return call(token), token
           ^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/home/runner/work/git-sweaty/git-sweaty/scripts/sync_strava.py", line 630, in <lambda>
    lambda access_token: _fetch_page(
                         ^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/home/runner/work/git-sweaty/git-sweaty/scripts/sync_strava.py", line 400, in _fetch_page
    return _request_json_with_retry(
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/home/runner/work/git-sweaty/git-sweaty/scripts/sync_strava.py", line 69, in _request_json_with_retry
    resp.raise_for_status()
  File "/opt/hostedtoolcache/Python/3.11.15/x64/lib/python3.11/site-packages/requests/models.py", line 1024, in raise_for_status
    raise HTTPError(http_error_msg, response=self)
requests.exceptions.HTTPError: 403 Client Error: Forbidden for url: https://www.strava.com/api/v3/athlete/activities?per_page=200&page=1&after=1782380939
Error: Process completed with exit code 1.

[aspain]

unfortunately as of yesterday it seems strava has made their API available only to subscribers

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

Effective June 30, 2026

Subscription required for existing Standard Tier developers. A Strava subscription will be required to access the API as a Standard Tier developer. Active developers* without a current subscription are entitled to 3-months free. If you’re eligible, you will have received a code via email. Extended Access Tier developers are not affected. 

[LimeBlast]

Oh wow, that sucks!

[mo]

I got the same problem. Sad that Strava did this 😿

[ahrorkosimi]

Any other way to bypass this or maybe there is a new solution to this?

[aspain]

Unfortunately this is likely permanent without a workaround if Strava has blocked the API but I will have to look around. I think it should still work if you are a Strava premium subscriber.

Otherwise the option is to use Garmin as the data source, you can rerun the setup command and it will switch over to import from Garmin moving forward, there's really no difference there other than not linking to your Strava profile, but that's still something I could add even if you only have a free Strava account

[ahrorkosimi]

What about scrapping the data if profile is public? Is that possible way?

[chris240189]

Maybe use the data download from strava and import that file?
https://www.strava.com/account and then Download your account

Sure its not automatic, but you could do it manually weekly or once a month.

[DD8HL]

i ran into the same problem. sadly i cant write code myself, but thanks to claude i managed to modify your code to pull .fit files directly from my dropbox account. so my new workflow is syncing my apple health to dropbbox, where your beautiful dashboard pulls the fit files from.

[aspain]

I checked some other user dashbaords and the automations appear to continue working without issue for paid strava subscribers. alternatively if you have a garmin device you can re-run the setup script and the garmin implementation works fine

[ahrorkosimi]

Any solution for Coros users?. Or runalyze user where my data is stored.

[aspain]

I unfortunately don't have a coros device nor am I familiar w/ runalyze to implement a solution for those in the short-term, perhaps another user with a Coros device is willing to take a stab and create a PR