Unable to delete activity

[Matt Jamieson]

Hi,

I can successfully upload a GPS trace via the API but I don't seem to be able to delete them (the app does have read/write permissions).

I'm submitting a httpDelete for the following url, with the auth token in the header:

https://www.strava.com/api/v3/activities/:123456789

the ID I'm using seems to be valid as I can browse to it on the website:

https://www.strava.com/activities/123456789

and this is the ID that shows up when uploading etc...

The error I'm getting is

{"message":"Record Not Found","errors":[{"resource":"Activity","field":"id","code":"invalid"}]}

Seems I'm missing something basic but I can't think what..

[David Spence]

There shouldn't be a colon before the activity id.

[Matt Jamieson]

Thanks David, that was exactly it. Originally I was getting authorization errors with the colon removed, but it turns out that's because I only had 'write' access and was trying to delete an activity marked as private. I updated the access scope and removed the colon and all is working well!

Cheers,

[Gábor Németh]

Has anybody else experienced lately, that deleting an activity via REST API does not work?

I have write and view_private scopes, still receive HTTP 401. Accessing private activities works well.

[Mateo Ortega]

Gábor,

It was listed in the API changelog, but that got moved to an application-level permission in addition to still needed the write scope on the token. The API docs say to mall developers@, but feel free to email directly with your request for delete access.

Mateo

[Gábor Németh]

Mateo,

Thank you for the info. I haven't followed the changelog until now :) Going to drop a mail.