Upload TCX to Strava - Bad Request

[Michael Phillips]

Hi, there.

I'm having trouble uploading a TCX file to Strava.  Here is my Node.js code:

var file = request.get(tcxEndpointUrl);

        

request.post({

  url: 'https://www.strava.com/api/v3/uploads',

  headers: {

    Authorization: 'Bearer ' + strava.token

  },

  formData: {

    data_type: 'tcx',

    file: file

  }

}, function() {

  console.log('post result', arguments);

});

The resulting body is:

{"message":"Bad Request","errors":[{"resource":"Upload","field":"data","code":"empty"}]}

Can anyone point me in the right direction here?  First, I don't see a `data` field outlined in the docs, so I'm not sure what that means.  Second, the `@` sign in front of the file name, I'm not sure what that's about.  I feel like the issue lies in the way I'm posting the file to the Strava API.

Thanks in advance for any help you can offer.

Michael

[Paul Mach]

The file data you're sending is empty, probably because you're not issuing a proper multipart post.  In this case you may try "data: file" to send it along as a regular post. That should work, assuming the file variable isn't actually empty. 

The @ symbol in the sample curl command is a curl thing to send the contents of the file and not just it's name. 

Dr. Paul Mach

STRAVA

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[Michael Phillips]

Thanks for the help, Dr. Mach.

Changing the key from `file` to `data` doesn't seem to make a difference.  I'm also not entirely sure what you mean about my request not issuing a proper multipart post.  Here is a gist of the output of the httpResponse from the POST.  Maybe this can help illuminate the issue:

https://gist.github.com/createbang/ae0bd6492b521fc9d90e

[Paul Mach]

I don't know, but content length here looks suspicious. 

_header: 'POST /api/v3/uploads HTTP/1.1\r\nAuthorization: Bearer {access_token}\r\nContent-Type: multipart/form-data\r\nhost: www.strava.com\r\ncontent-length: 0\r\nConnection: keep-alive\r\n\r\n',

Dr. Paul Mach

STRAVA

[Marek P]

Hi,
I had the same Problem, here is a working example with Python

https://gist.github.com/paulsoning/a376186560cbaf1bdc68701fce7e3d47

Br,

Marek Paulson