Cannot do Update Activity in python

[Nick Sciarrilli]

Hello,

I'm having some issues. I am able to do an Update Activity by Id in postman but am unable to do the same in python. I've tried with the swagger client, urllib3 and requests library. What happens is I get a 200 response and it shows me the activity but it does not update the name. I've tried different scopes and still not luck. I'm all out of ideas here.

Regards,

Nick

[Bryant Likes]

Not real familiar with python, but are you passing the activity id as a string? I know that javascript requires a string since the id is too big for a javascript int. 

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[Nick Sciarrilli]

So if I'm using swagger client it's asking for a 'long' type. I tried with string and it didn't work. If I'm rolling my own in python the activity id is part of the url which is a string.

[Bryant Likes]

Ok, but how are you constructing that url string? You might want to output the url to make sure you're passing the id correctly. 

[Nick Sciarrilli]

Check it:

#!/usr/bin/env python3

import time

import swagger_client

from swagger_client.rest import ApiException

from pprint import pprint

strava_access_token = '###'

api_instance = swagger_client.ActivitiesApi()

api_instance.api_client.configuration.access_token = strava_access_token

# api_instance = swagger_client.ActivitiesApi(swagger_client.ApiClient(configuration))

id = 4850353749 # Long | The identifier of the activity.

body = swagger_client.UpdatableActivity({"name": "what the fuck"})

try:

# Update Activity

api_response = api_instance.update_activity_by_id(id, body=body)

pprint(api_response)

except ApiException as e:

print("Exception when calling ActivitiesApi->updateActivityById: %s\n" % e)

[Bryant Likes]

I can't see what the URL is from that code. I would try debugging it and compare the url + body in python to what works in postman. There has to be some difference since one works and the other one doesn't. 

[Nick Sciarrilli]

The url on that is embedded probably in the swagger library. Here is the roll my own version with urllib3

#!/usr/bin/env python3

import json

import urllib3

http = urllib3.PoolManager()

activity_id = '4869932316'

url = 'https://www.strava.com/api/v3/activities/' + activity_id

access_token = '####'

body = {'name': 'fishy fishy', 'description': "nohello"}

encoded_data = json.dumps(body)

r = http.urlopen('PUT', url, body=encoded_data, headers={'Authorization': 'Bearer ' + access_token})

data = json.loads(r.data.decode('utf-8'))

print(data['name'])

print(data['description'])

[Nick Sciarrilli]

I figured it out. I needed to include the 'Content-Type': 'application/json'. FML such a rookie mistake. Not sure why the swagger client in python is not working. You would think that would be included.

[Bryant Likes]

So if you compare the output on that with what you use in postman, is there no difference? 

I've never actually used the API to update an activity, but are the fields you're not passing optional? I'm assuming they are. 

https://developers.strava.com/docs/reference/#api-models-UpdatableActivity

[Nick Sciarrilli]

Yeah the update fields are optional. You only need to pass the one you want to update.

This is the python which is working:

#!/usr/bin/env python3

import json

import urllib3

http = urllib3.PoolManager()

activity_id = '4872907378'

url = 'https://www.strava.com/api/v3/activities/' + activity_id

access_token = '###'

auth = 'Bearer ' + access_token

body = {'name': 'daft punk', 'description': "ilikespicy.com"}

encoded_data = json.dumps(body)

headers = {'Authorization': auth, 'Content-Type': 'application/json'}

r = http.urlopen(

'PUT',

url,

headers=headers,

body=encoded_data,

)

data = json.loads(r.data.decode('utf-8'))

print(data['name'])

print(data['description'])