403 error when doing /activities api get request

[Blind Hydra]

I am developing a python script that pulls all my activities using the Strava API. I have been successful at pulling my access token using the "https://www.strava.com/oauth/token" API and my stats from 'https://www.strava.com/api/v3/athletes/58832723/stats' 

But when ever I try to pull the entire list of activities using "https://www.strava.com/api/v3/athlete/activities?access_token={access_token}&per_page1" I get a 403 error and a message that says "can't connect to the server for this app or website at this time. There might be too much traffic or a configuration error. Try again later, or contact the app or website owner." I also tried doing "https://www.strava.com/api/v3/athlete/activities" and I got the same result.

I am used two types of payloads to give Strava my credentials:

• payload = {

  'client_id': "xxx",

  'client_secret': 'xxx',

  'code':'xxx',

  'grant_type': "authorization_code",

  'f': 'json'

  }
• payload = {

  'client_id': "xxx",

  'client_secret': 'xxx',

  'refresh_token': 'xxx',

  'grant_type': "refresh_token",

  'f': 'json'

  }

None of these work for the activities API. Am I missing something from the authentication process or why is Strava not allowing my request? I also read something online about changing my privacy setting and I already set everything to public for my account, I hit a road block and any help would be deeply appreciated!! 

[Blind Hydra]

I also want to add that I get this message when running the /activities get request:

• {'message': 'Authorization Error', 'errors': [{'resource': 'AccessToken', 'field': 'activity:read_permission', 'code': 'missing'}]}

[Richard M]

You need to request the activity:read scope:

 https://developers.strava.com/docs/authentication/#detailsaboutrequestingaccess

See the scopes section.

At the moment it looks like you just have access to basic public profile data.

Happy New Year!

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[Blind Hydra]

Hey Richard! Thanks for the fast reply, I truly appreciate it, also happy holidays and new year!

So to request access I have to create a separate API call or is this done through Strava's website? I am currently writing my app on python so I would have to create a payload with the inputs you sent in the documentation? I am a beginner using this API so I am still learning the ropes. 

Again, thanks for the support!

Best,

M 

[Blind Hydra]

So if anybody else is having this issue when trying to run the GET Athlete Activities Requests using Strava API in python: 

• {'message': 'Authorization Error', 'errors': [{'resource': 'AccessToken', 'field': 'activity:read_permission', 'code': 'missing'}]}

Open this link in your browser: 'http://www.strava.com/oauth/authorize?client_id={YOUR CLINET ID}&response_type=code&redirect_uri=http://localhost/&approval_prompt=force&scope=profile:read_all,activity:read_all' with your client ID and log in into your Strava account and authorize the new permissions, it should look something like this:

 After you authorize you will be redirected to this page:

Don't panic if you see the 'This site can't be reached' message, that's exactly what we want. From the web link, grab the code=xxxx, we will use that as our payload when running the python script.

My post request looks like this:

• token = requests.post(url='https://www.strava.com/api/v3/oauth/token',

  data={'client_id': client_id,

  'client_secret': client_secret,

  'code': code,

  'grant_type': 'authorization_code'})

When you run this post request, save the access_token from the json that was generated and then you should be good to go to run the Activities GET request 

This is what my Activities Get request looks like: 

pages = [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15]

activities_df = pd.DataFrame()

for i in pages:

activities_url = f"https://www.strava.com/api/v3/athlete/activities?access_token={access_token}&per_page=200&page={i}".format(i)

print('Requesting page number:',i)

response = requests.get(activities_url)

activity = response.json()

print(response)

activities_df = activities_df.append(activity, ignore_index=True)

This code of course could be optimized but it gets the job done! After this you shouldn't get the 'code':'missing' error!