Recap of API calls with unexpected results after January 17th update

[Marcello Brivio]

Hi everyone,

it would be useful for us and probably also for the team at Strava if we try to do a list of the API calls that seems to be unresponsive or broken after the January 17th update.

I'm doing a full check of the calls used on my app, Toolbox For Strava, and for the moment I have the following errors:

• GET "athlete/followers": responds with an Authorization Error (401)
  
• GET "athlete/friends": responds with an Authorization Error (401)
  

All other calls in my app (e.g. "/athlete", "/athlete/%athleteID%/stats") seems to be working as they did before.

Since in the official changelog statement Strava says that "Athlete-specific data will require authentication.", I want to underline that all API calls in my app are done under authentication of the logged-in athlete so I would expect no error of such a kind.

Are you noticing other errors after latest API change?

[crickles]

I see exactly this: all the other endpoints that I use still work but athlete/friends is broken (using either http or python). No replies or even acknowledgements of my emails from Strava "support" either.

[Eric Thomas]

I'm having the same issue.

Coincidentally, the friends and followers API page is blank: https://strava.github.io/api/v3/follow/

Strava, can you please respond to this?

[David Sánchez]

After the changes, I achieved to get users followers with user's token, but since 2-3 days it returns Authorization Error even using your own token to get your own friends

https://www.strava.com/api/v3/athlete/friends?page=1&per_page=200&access_token=MY_TOKEN

https://developers.strava.com/docs/reference/#api-Athletes-getLoggedInAthleteFriends

[riro]

I'm having the same issue.

[crickles]

After an initially frustrating email exchange with Strava Support, they've now confirmed that the athlete/friends endpoint has been intentionally withdraw and that the API docs and playground were thus wrong following the Jan update - they've now removed the athlete/friends endpoint documentation from both.