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title: Strava API from JavaScript with 11ty
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published_at: 2021-06-10 23:40:29 +0000
updated_at: 2026-03-04 20:14:08 +0000
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description: In this episode, we review the Strava API, manually go through the OAuth flow to get an access token, then fetch activities from the API using JavaScript.  We also play with 11tys data pipeline, experiment with dates, and API pagination.    https://cjav.dev/squares/ API docs: https://developers.strava.com/
tags: [Strava API, Connect to Strava API with JavaScript, Strava API Authentication, Strava API from 11ty, 11ty data, 11ty API calls, 11ty and Strava, Strava, API to fetch Strava rides]
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# Strava API from JavaScript with 11ty

*Published: June 10, 2021*
*Views: 4558*

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## Description

In this episode, we review the Strava API, manually go through the OAuth flow to get an access token, then fetch activities from the API using JavaScript.

We also play with 11tys data pipeline, experiment with dates, and API pagination.



https://cjav.dev/squares/
API docs: https://developers.strava.com/

## Transcript

hey what's up in this episode we're going to play around with 11t and the strava api uh today um i have on this website i'm using 11t and some like little javascript that runs on netlify to fetch data from youtube to show recent videos i fetch data from transistor.fm which is where i host podcasts and that's those uh those podcast episodes this is just the normal blogs there's no api for that and then i'm using the goodreads api to fetch in the recently read books we've covered some of these apis in previous episodes there's also another like sort of hidden section of my site called squares and this is just like visualizing different metrics that i care about and i'm thinking about so this this year for 2021 one of my goals was to publish three episodes per week on youtube this data is actually a little out of date and the way that it works is every time i publish to netlify the the javascript runs and it makes an api call and then like uh uses the json that was returned and just stores that json and then it's it's static json until i publish again or until i deploy again i don't really need to be hitting the api all that often and if i want to refresh the metrics i just redeploy the site um and so what i wanted to do today was something i've been doing a lot lately is going on these bike rides and so i wanted to pull in rides from strava and it turns out that strava does have an api and so i thought it would be fun to go through the process of setting up a little script inside of 11t to fetch the rides from strava i don't know if this is gonna work we'll see how it goes but um yeah we can also just do like kind of a quick review of the strava api in general and just like get a get a sense for it here so we've got um api documentation we've got a getting started guide creating and managing your app exploring the playground i think strava's api is like all a lot of the docs and everything are swagger based here so it's using this swagger.json to generate like this sort of api ref here um i tried using this authorize this uh authorized flow on on this like swagger playground for the api ref and it didn't work so i don't know what i was doing wrong but i could not get it to auth and it was giving me an error or something about the the redirect url anyways we can take a look at the api documentation here and you'll see that on the top left typically what i expect to see here is authentication pagination how do we do versioning how do we do retries item potency those kinds of things for strava it just jumps right into the api reference and then here at the top it says you can you can find more information about the api here so we can like go into that and then it says all requests to strava require authentication so we're going to need to look at how authentication works strava uses oauth to generate access tokens so it's using oauth 2 with the new version of their api they're on v3 so you can register a new application you have to be logged in so let me log into strava okay so on the strava dashboard i think you can go to like settings maybe it's settings api i don't actually know how to click around to get there and here you can create an api application i created this a really long time ago and i never got around to like actually using it but here you'll see your client id your client secret access token and refresh token so this is this is sort of the tokens that you'll need what i'm going to do is while we're here i'm going to copy these ids into my dot n file so this is again this is an 11 t like sort of blog static site generator so i'm going to blur this part out but i'm going to add some keys in here for strava so i'm going to say my my strava client id is this then my client secret is this strava client secret is this and then i think what i'm going to need to do is generate these oauth tokens because they expire within 24 hours so this access token like doesn't even isn't going to matter the refresh token i don't think is going to matter because we need to go through that auth flow and we'll talk about how we do that oauth flow here so now that i've got these keys stored i'm going to close that out and clear this okay so all right so what i want to do now is go back to this oauth flow and we can talk about talk about this oauth flow so we've got a client id we've got a client secret generally you also need like a redirect uri so this is the oauth overview if you've never done oauth before it can be pretty confusing but um there's a lot of tools and libraries out there for helping work with oauth what i wanted to do today was kind of go through the flow step by step manually just kind of poking around in the browser until we can figure out what what the process is so generally you start by making a request with some data to the third party that you want to authenticate with so in the in this case strava is the third party so we're gonna make a get request to strava on their website and uh if you've ever you know logged in with facebook login or twitter login or github login this is all going to work very similarly right when you say like log in with github login with twitter um generally if you're not logged into twitter or you've never connected to twitter before then you're going to be brought to that third party website so that is the get request and that get request is composed of a number of different arguments so if we look down here details about requesting access so there's a client id that's the client id we got from strava the redirect uri is where to redirect the user to after they successfully authenticate so if i say connect to strava it's going to bring me to strava first and then if on strava i say approve then this is the redirect uri that i should go to after i've approved so this is kind of like our own site inside of the strava developer settings here you can specify an authorization callback domain this is how you sort of add something to an allow list that says when people connect to my application they're allowed to redirect to this domain so cgive.dev that's kind of like this site here so i'm going to i've added cjav.dev as the domain that you're allowed to redirect to when i specify a redirect uri it can either be localhost localhost again as an ip address or that domain that we have added to the allow list here all right we also need to add a response type in this case we're going to pass in code and then i don't know what this approval prompt thing i've never seen this i'm not sure what this is for force or auto always show the thing even okay so when you get to strava like when we say connect to strava there's going to be a ui that says do you want to allow this other application to access these different scopes and if you say auto i think if you've already agreed to those scopes then it'll just skip that and redirect if you say force then you'll always be shown that ui where you have to go through and say yes i totally approve that this person or this this app can read all or whatever finally you can pass in a state this is like your own personal thing if you wanted to uh if you wanted to pass in a state variable that was like um this person is logging in from the mobile app or this person is logging in from the uh the desktop client or this is they're logging in from the website or whatever you could pass them state variable in order to um know once the user is redirected to the redirect uri where to forward them on like potentially you could make this a like some deep link or something they tried to access something they weren't allowed they needed to authenticate so they say connect or like log in with strava and that state variable would be like where they were headed in the first place maybe they were going to like some specific blog post or something hopefully this is not getting too muddy anyways we need the client id so in the url here we're going to construct we're going to construct a url that is going to uh strava.com oauth slash authorize okay so this is going to be the url that we're going to construct and what i think makes the most sense out of the gate is to just pass this how should we do this um let's build let's build a link yeah let's build it so that it's a link on this page so that when you click on the link it constructs this url for you so let's go over to um squares.markdown i'm going to add another one here at the very bottom it's going to be strava and then i'm going to add a link here ahref and it's going to go to that url and it's just going to say like connect okay and then i need to start this up um npm oh gosh i forgot how we do this uh let's see oh it's also yeah so npm run dev here we go okay so that should fire up my local instance of this maybe okay cool here's the ui nope that's the browser sync ui here's the actual ui there we go all right so this is like my local host version of the website squares and then at the bottom here we should have a new section strava and it has this link connect right and initially i just dumped in that url because this is the this bit this is the basic url that we want to start with now we need to pass in some query string parameters the first one is the client id this is the android version so i'm going to try to go down here and follow follow this instruction so we need the client id we need the redirect uri we need oops we need the response type and that's always going to be code and we need um the approval prompt it's default is auto that's what i want scope i think we're going to want so scope is generally like a comma separated list of different scopes a scope is like what permissions this this access token will have access to after it's like finished authenticating so read read all um private routes private segments private user yeah sure so we want like read all i think and we also want i think activity read all because we want to be able to see all the i think the active like i think a bike ride is considered an activity in here okay and so then here for the client id i think i'm just going to put the client id directly in there because it's not it's not secret or private or anything i'm just going to copy and paste that in there and then the redirect uri let's have it come back to squares so let's make this initially we'll make it local host uh 80 what is it eight is it eight eighty eighty slash squares and this like in development this should be squares but in production it should be something different whatever we'll just we're just kind of like getting started here so let's say connect great so that brings us to strava that is the get request to go to strava next step here is that we're going to click authorize and that's going to redirect us back to the redirect url right so we came back to the redirect url that's here i don't know why this site like just exploded or crashed maybe it needs like a slash here or something whatever okay this site uh oh cause i use https it's not s it's just it's just hdb that's fine okay but you'll notice that in the url we have the state we didn't pass a state so it doesn't really matter but you could optionally pass a state if you wanted and then we get back this code now the code is not our access token the code is like a temporary one-time thing that we need to exchange and this exchange needs to happen with our secret key um and i am yeah so this needs to happen with our secret key so in order to show you what this looks like i think what i want to do is uh let's go to curl let's make a curl request we're going to say curl dash x post so this always happens on the server it's going to be a post request and let's actually say export code is equal to that code that we just got from the url and we need to make a post request and this one is going to use our um our client secret property that we got here that's hidden okay so this is going to use the client secret property to make i think a post request let's go back to the docs all right so we've got we've made our we've already got our code at the end of our access request we have a code now we need to do that token exchange and so in order to do the token exchange we have to pass the client id the client secret the code we just got and the grant type and the grant type here is always going to be authorization code we want to make a post request to this url we want to pass our client id and that's going to be this client id again right and then we want to pass client secret and i just put this in an environment variable called strava client secret but you'll want to replace that with your actual client secret that's visible in the dashboard there and then we need to pass the code the code is going to be code we just got that from the url recall that like when we were redirected back we got this code and then finally we need to pass a grant type uh grant type is going to be authorization code i believe uh command not found url ah this is curl okay so this has a bunch of juicy details including an access token here that access token um it has my name it has like where i'm based it has the picture it has a bunch of stuff about the athlete and it came back with um uh in this access token which is gonna expire in just a little bit so because it's gonna expire i don't actually care about exposing the access token as long as you don't see my client secret you're good you're good to go so we do have this refresh token which we'll probably need to refresh it because this because this token expires so frequently like because this this is like uh so if we grab this date time and we say df um yeah so this is going to expire in whatever this this many seconds so like it's basically tomorrow um so we want to use this access token to make our api call so now we have an access token that's like that's the whole flow for getting an access token um so if we were to go into one of these one of these activities i think maybe like get an activity no because we don't have any ids for activities we want to list activities list athlete activities here we go slash athlete activity so this is going to be like the url that we want to send the request to we say curl this thing oh no i lost my i lost my access token all right so i'm just going to say export token is equal to this thing so this is the api call that we want to make if you don't if you don't pass any headers or anything you'll get this this error that says we didn't pass the access token field so in order to pass that access token we're going to need to use a bearer authentication or token authentication so we say authorization is the header key and then we say bearer and then we want to pass our token here so token i think that might work i don't know we'll see boom look at that we got some data back fantastic i'm gonna pipe this into jq just so that we can see it a little better nice very cool okay um sweet so yeah these are all of my activities that are piped into strava again like you can connect your peloton bike to strava so i've been super into these power zone rides lately and i actually just did i did one not too long ago and so here is an example of a 60-minute power zone ride it tells the distance i'm guessing that's in like kilometers how long you were on the bike i don't know what that denomination is because it was 60 minutes so what is this is this in seconds or something what is that divided by 60 there you go yep so that's how many seconds um it was on the bike gives you your athlete id type is ride cool so that's going to be useful um the workout type i've also got some other activities in here like um i've done meditations with the the pelton app too and so those are going to show up in here but this yeah type workout is not not useful because i just want to my my end goal here is to have a calendar of squares below down here below strava that shows a dot on a day in the calendar where i did a bike ride so that's kind of what i care about is like whether or not i did a bike ride and so i want that to be colored in if i have done a bike ride on that day and so um what we want to do is use that access token to make in to make this api call to fetch all of the activities that were rides that were bike rides so let's see if we can filter by type activity type it says before after page per page maybe this just gives you like all of the activities and there's no way to filter perhaps i can just fetch i might have to just filter it myself so that's that's totally fine too but at the end of the day this is the api call that we want to make and we can do that from from javascript with 11t so i'm gonna and i'm gonna need to figure out how to like update this environment variable but for now whatever we can just we know that it'll be stored in the environment um so let's take a look at what we've got here for this existing data stuff so we've got dev and prod so in prod we have like a little javascript file that will run and then in dev we've got some json that's just like hard-coded json and so what we want to do is add a new prod javascript file called strava.js and in here we will make a request to the strava api i think transistor is going to be the closest one because yeah i just used the axios so yeah i'm just going to copy all this over all right so we've got axios is a library for making http requests from javascript um in in node uh i think you can use it actually you can use it wherever that's fine um and then save seed is a like a helper file that came with this 11t thing plug-in thing uh save seed is what does this step where it like plops the data this json data into these json files so we're going to need that the url again is going to be so for strava here we want to grab this thing okay so that's going to be our url and then our request options the headers we're going to pass authorization and then bearer and then our token our access token so this is going to be strava access token okay and then the yeah the function that we're exporting here is going to make a get request and then it's going to stringify that data and then we want to plop it into strava.json so now in order to run this i think there was a tool that came with this whole thing let's see in package.json the scripts oh here we go seed so cross end in seed and then it's gonna run 11t so hopefully that will run our our thing let's see so npm run seed let's see so this should actually see all of the different the different development mode json files so i don't know if any of these api calls are going to fail we might have to comment some out so yeah see it's fetching the data for goodreads for strava for transistor okay cool so it's got some strava data that's awesome styles uglify.js something failed with uglify.js like i don't know if that matters but let's take a look at our source um site data for dev and then here we have our strava.json fantastic amazing okay great so what we want to do now is we want to take that strava.json data and yep so let's take a look at that squares that squares page so squares it's a markdown file and down here we just like for the other ones i'm just like plopping in um p tags and so my my target for strava is at least three rides per week um okay and then this is going to be called a strava cow all right and then where am i using podcast call or podcast cal let's see okay in core js so oh right okay so in core js i've written a little bit of javascript that uses this cal heat map thing and then you you can like pass in the data that's used to generate those so let's let's make a new one of these and we'll call it our strava calendar and this is gonna be strava and then um right okay so the item name is going to be like ride and rides i think all right whatever that's that's fine so what's interesting here is that these are actually hitting like an api endpoint to fetch the json and i can't remember how that works so let's see let's see what's going on here so we've got our posts we've got our site functions how does that work podcast calendar um okay this is in dist how is that getting into dist api and then the data is there huh i actually don't know how that works so yeah let's try to figure that out uh oh here we go so we've got a couple of 11t.js files here so we've got our podcastcalendar.11t.js so let's see how this works so data is returning a permanent permalink um that's just saying like where uh where this thing lives and then we're in order to render it what are we doing okay so data data.transistor this is a tool that comes from 11t i believe and that's so that you can just access anything that's in this data directory by saying like data dot and then like the name of the stuff so in this case data.transistor should give me back the data that's here in transistor.json so what i want to do is i want to create a copy of this and i'm going to say strava calendar and this is going to be called strava calendar and then the items here is going to be data.strava and then we need to figure out like how to actually map over it so that we can accumulate the number of rides for a given day and like yeah the this published at and everything so um okay i think maybe if i go to like localhost now if i just like drop in and say like api strava calendar.json okay cool so it's giving me back some data um the data is not what i want so let's say if we just like return json.stringifydata.strava.data and then i think we're going to have to like clean this up anyway so let's oh there we go okay so now we're getting the data back but like is it i don't know why like or when it's refreshing this is super hard to read though so let's make the get request from the terminal and pipe to jq so that we can take a look all right so what we want is we want the the date time uh that it happened at and we want to collect those into timestamps right so like in the podcast calendar that the items that we're returning here are the timestamp and then like the number of episodes that went out on that day and so we are parsing the publish date into an integer date.parse so if i take this if i so the start date yeah we'll just use the start date as like the date and then if we say like date.parse this thing um we do get back a time stamp and then uh percent and divided by a thousand yep okay so i think we want to do the same thing or something similar for strava so at the very top there's not like a data property or anything it's just like straight into the rides or straight into the activities so i think what we want to do is something like const rides is data.strava. um let's see yeah i guess we could do filter yeah um ride or like activity and then the the thing we want to filter out on is if strava.json um where does it say oh yeah so the type so we want the type to be ride activity dot type is ride and i think we can shorten this up to be okay so that should give us the rides and then from those rides we want to map over it and count them based on the day so we want to say like rides and then we say cons like ride counts and we can say rides dot um i guess we could probably just use this very like a very similar format here rides.map to um yeah do we want to destructure and just pull out that one start date sure and then we want to parse int for date.parse of start date and divided by 1000 ten we want to parse in here because we wanted to be an integer and if we divide by a thousand like we might get something weird um so that should map over that should map over all the rides and just give us back timestamps and then we want to reduce those and count by the time stamp also i'm realizing that if we use the timestamp and divide by just 1000 that's not gonna that's going to give us like down to the second but i think we want it down to the day so how do we get down to the day let's see here so uh divided by 1000 right so like this is going to be a unix timestamp of yeah so it's down to like 10 45 52. um so how should we do this uh date.parse dot uh um i i'm like wondering if there's a way we can divide by like more than a thousand so a thousand gives us the seconds and then if we divide by 60 that gives us the minutes if we divide by 60 again that gives us the hours if we divide by 24 that gives us the days and then if we times by then if we like clean this whole thing up and multiply by 60 times 60 times there's got to be a way better way to do this all right uh oh we get the same thing back all right great um that's so that's not going to work so um what is this what does this actually give us right okay so we want a percent of this first int and then we want to multiply that by like 60 times 60 times 24 i'm trying to like just remove the um remove the other part yeah exactly okay so that gives you zero zero zero zero there's gotta be a much better way to do this in javascript though right so let's try to figure that out const d equals date.parse of this thing is this just going to give me back an integer too right like d so that's just a number so dot new of d um new date of d gosh switching between ruby and whatever may 24th is that right yeah that is may 24th okay so then yes so this was may 24th that's right that's totally right so this is this is the same day that's great so now what we want to do all right so that's we're going to map over and we should get that back and then we want to reduce down to some accumulator and time stamp the whole reason is uh that we're doing this like fancy thing is that we want we want to count the rides of that day and i'm just yeah i'm not sure how to do it in any easier way so it's all good um so we also want to set our initial so reduce is a way that we can like collect up values so at the end of this map statement right so rides.map at the end of this statement we're getting back an array of timestamps that are going to be day time stamps so in fact like let's let's do that so we'll call this like ride days um uh ride yeah ride days and then here we'll say const ride counts so ride days is going to be an array ride days is an array of timestamps and some of them are going to be duplicate timestamps and we want to count all those duplicates up and and the resulting object to be a an object or a hashmap or whatever where the key is the date and the value is the number of rides for that day and so we're gonna we're gonna use reduce which takes in it takes a function as an argument as the first argument and then as the second argument it's a potential initial value for what's called the accumulator so we're going to use this accumulator to count up the days the timestamp is going to be each individual timestamp that's in the array of days and then we have an opportunity to modify accumulator and return it so we're going to say like if there is a timestamp in the accumulator at that day then we want to increase the value there so we're going to say acc at time stamp plus equals 1 and then otherwise we're going to set it equal to 1. so if the hash right okay so here we go we're gonna say um let's also clean all this up and we're gonna return of json.stringify counts all right so this is going to be a hash the hash here and what we're doing is we are collecting up all of those dates and we're adding them up so the very first thing we're saying is like does this hash have this timestamp in it if it does then increase it if it does not already have that timestamp then set it equal to one because we found at least one ride for that day and then go to the next time stamp and if that time stamp is there because maybe it's the second ride for that day we're going to increase the number from one to two otherwise if this is a new date that we've never seen before then we're going to set that equal to one and then we're going to return the accumulator at the end and something seems off here i'm missing an arrow there okay so hopefully this makes sense so we've got we've got rides i think let's console.log rides this is a little trick here if you pass just rides that'll console log it and print it out oftentimes i'll say like rides with the string value as the first argument to console log and the second argument is the thing i'm printing out but another like little hacky trick is if you wrap it in curly braces then that's creating an object with the key being rides and the value being whatever the value of rides is so that's like a nice little handy trick for printing stuff out so let's say ride days and then we'll also say ride counts and we'll see what we get let's just let's just check it out so if we oh gosh all right something's crashing ah okay in order for that to work start date i need to wrap this thing in parens oops maybe cool okay so is this actually a date time i think that's too big yep so we're off by something we are off by a thousand so i think this one needs to be divided by a thousand we lost that so let's refresh there we go so now is this a date that is so that's uh the 27th there was one two rides in the 27th two rides on the 28th one ride on the 30th two rides on the first so that that's actually looking pretty good i'm a little disappointed at how many results there are here so let's take a look and see if we can work with the strava api the other thing too is that like i'm saving all the data actually let's go take a look and see if this is like a working out of the gate here for [Music] uh for the squares thing we go to the bottom hey check it out that's super cool so it's already coloring in the days that i rode the darker color is like more rides and the lighter color is fewer rides you'll notice that it's only like this chunk though so it's missing all the data from before and so what i think might be interesting is trying to figure out pagination so let's go and see the other thing that's on my mind is that like we technically are storing like all the data back from strava right like we've got all this ride data here but i don't actually need all of this stuff i only need the rides and i only need the time stamps for the rides but whatever for for now we'll just keep it like that so if we go back to um strava.js we need to modify this query string so that we can try to fetch several um the other thing that's on my mind is maybe we want to do this inside of this function like maybe we make like several calls to paginate over the list so if we go very up to the very beginning here oh no list list athlete activities we've got a per page defaults to 30. let's see if we can just mess around this and say like per page is a hundred and then um yeah page number defaults to one so let's actually yeah let's see if we can just do this sort of in the console or in the terminal here to get the pagination right before we try to implement it elsewhere so we want to give this thing a per page of 100. so that access token invalid huh no way let's just see here okay it's taking longer that's positive um so did we actually get 100 back that's the question so jq if we do like square brackets um dot start date i think that should give us back just the start dates no um dot square bracket dot start date maybe okay and then does this look like 100 to you all right so now what i want to do is pipe that into word count dash l so that's going to give me the line count so how many did we get back oh we actually did get 100 back okay so that's fantastic all right can we do more than 100 can we do like let's do 200. let's see if we get 200 back 200 wow okay how about 300 or let's see what what's the limit here let's let's try a thousand a thousand activities we get zero back um [Music] 500 we'll sort of binary search our way into the limit let's see 250 all right 200 all right for 200 we still get 200 back i'm trying to think if i i'm definitely going to do more than 200 rides some years so we'll we'll need to paginate so let's let's set our per page to 200 and then down here we will say oh gosh what do we want to do like where do we want the pagination to end maybe we just make like two requests uh i think that's probably fine let's say like page one actually yeah like um what is the best way to do this because technically we only need like 365 days of data before an epic time stamp to use for filtering activities that have taken be taken place before a certain time or after a certain time so after if we say after 365 days ago um yeah let's do that let's do that that's probably the right way to go so what is the time stamp for 365 days ago we're doing a lot of javascript date stuff here um so let's see if we can do that let's see if we can figure this out so const d is new date that should be today d dot um set year to like d dot get year minus one d that didn't work d dot year oh get full year d get here come on const d no let d2 equal new date uh d2 dot get year 121 that's so weird holy smokes okay so get full year 2021 there we go and then d2 dot set year set set full year there we go d2. get full year minus one and d2 all right so that is last year that is today last year so i think that might but this is not an epic time javascript date to epic time holy moly get time divided by a thousand all right let's try that get time divided by a thousand all right so cool whatever all right so we want this to be after and after is equal to what is that last last year's stamp last year's stamp all right and then what i think we want to do is we want to like keep looking looping and making get requests until the page returns no results so let's also just try this out with this timestamp in the terminal i like to try to limit all of the moving parts while i'm testing and so this is one of the ways that you can do that is like um by just experimenting with the api called directly in the terminal with curl or with postman or with whatever to verify your assumptions before you get two two down in the weeds and then um yep so let's just take a look i'm just going to print out the start dates now so here we go um 20 2009 uh seven six that's kind of weird right because i would expect okay are they going to be in order yes they're going to be in order this is the first one from last year and then if i go to like page 2 um so and page equals two is that gonna go to it's gonna start on 9 27 maybe or something let's see okay yeah so it starts on 9 27 ish and keeps going forward and then page three um oops oh gosh uh i guess my graph is only really showing since the beginning of this year so maybe it makes sense just to go to the beginning uh whatever it's fine um okay so cool that'll work let's just keep let's just do that so then instead of just fetching twice oh wait we need to find we need to find where the end is here huh page 4 is going to have some so page 5 should probably be empty yep so we get no results back what do we actually get though an empty object empty empty list okay so what we're going to do is we're going to say we want to loop um loop until we get an empty array back okay and so how do we want to do that i think what we want to do is just um i wonder if we can use yeah let's let's make a little function here fetch const fetch page is a function that's going to take in the page and it's going to return it's going to return this thing and that's going to be um it's going to be the url plus the page number and page equals page with those request options and then we're just going to return this no we're going to return response.data and we're going to say like oh this is going to be async also so i wonder if we can use a while loop i don't even know so we'll say like const page or like let page equal fetch page one and then we'll say like if i need we need an id to let page id or page num equal one oh gosh page we're gonna fit we're gonna fetch the page and then while page does not equal empty array we want to keep fetching i have not implemented pagination in javascript in a long time i always do this stuff in ruby or python or whatever so let's see all right so we're gonna we're gonna have a page number while the page doesn't equal zero we wanna keep fetching pages and we also wanna merge them into like results so cons results is gonna be some empty array initially and so we're going to say or actually i guess the results can start off with as the page and then we want to say page equals fetch page with page num plus equals one and then uh results dot concat page i don't remember if this actually changes it so if concat so a is array 1 2 3 8 concat like 4 5 6. that definitely returns a new array but does that change a it does not so we want to say results equals results.concat that means we can't make this consort to make it let all right so i don't know maybe that'll work we'll see um uh this should also be a weight and this should be a weight right because those are going to be async functions there's definitely a better way to do this but this should work for now and then uh we want to json to stringify results and plot that into strava now this i think is going to take a few seconds because in order to fetch i guess 200 per page five pages that is a thousand a thousand activities it's going to take a minute right or a little while so another thing that might be nice to do here is to say console.log fetching strava page whatever page num so that we can just see all right let's take a look at what that looks like so npm run seed the one i expected yes here we go fetching strava page two fetching strava page three four five six seven eight oh god oh god ah okay too many pages too many pages die die all right so what did we do um strava.js okay so while page does not equal so this yeah this actually yeah this is this is wrong um because we were comparing with another array and array equality doesn't work like that in javascript so like this does not equal this yep false so instead we do like dot length is greater than zero and that is better i think we'll see uh all right so we expect it to stop after like page five or six and you'll notice that like these other pages as it was fetching it was going way faster because uh when it fetches and says like give me 200 results after page 24 there is no page 24 so it just like quickly the api responds really quickly because there's no data to send back so we're fetching page two page three page four these are a little slower then we crash response is not defined because we are trying to use response somewhere oh yeah here we go results all right so we're pretty close we're pretty close to having something here so well that's going i'm kind of curious how this is looking here ah look at that sick oh my gosh it's so cool look at that that's those are my rides look at my activity so much activity that's amazing i love it cool we stopped after page five so sick oh i love it okay this is this is pretty sweet this connect link thing is sort of annoying but i think we have to deal with it because of oauth stuff and yeah i should probably automate the process for making the post request with the client secret and such so that we can get back that token and then make the api call with the token but for now this is fine all right i think i'm going to stop it there i am going to deploy it up to netlify but hopefully this was useful i know it ran a little long thanks so much for your time and attention really appreciate it hopefully this was uh yeah kind of juicy getting into the strava api if you're curious about playing around with it the docs are a little um a little light for the authentication piece so i don't know maybe this um will help and uh yep otherwise i hope you're having an awesome day and we'll see you next time

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