MM MIHIR MADHAPARIA

Updating the Beyond page from Strava (manual, one step)

Strava locked down its API (and the automation tools that relied on it), so the Beyond page updates from a Strava data export instead — no API, no account connection, and it includes your real posted photos and full GPS.

Do this whenever you want to refresh the page (every few weeks is plenty):

1. Request your Strava archive

  1. On Strava (web): Settings → My Account → scroll to “Download or Delete Your Account” → Get Started.
  2. Under “Download Request (optional)”, click Request Your Archive.
  3. Strava emails you a download link (can take a few minutes up to a few hours). Download the .zip (named like export_1234567.zip).

2. Update the page (one command)

From the repo folder, run:

python tools/beyond_from_export.py  path/to/export_1234567.zip

(You can drag the zip into the terminal to paste its path.) It reads the export, recomputes the last-18-week daily mileage + YTD stats, copies your 3 most recent activity photos into assets/images/strava/, writes assets/data/beyond.json, and regenerates the multi-city route map (your run GPS, grouped by city) in beyond.html. You’ll see a summary like Updated beyond.json: 126 days, YTD 158 mi / 4,927 ft, 3 photos.

3. Publish

git add -A
git commit -m "Update Beyond from Strava"
git push

GitHub Pages redeploys in ~1 minute and the page reflects the new data. The chart is unchanged — only its numbers, the stats, the “updated” date, and the photos refresh.

Even easier

If you’d rather not run anything: just send me the export zip and I’ll process it, update the page, and hand it back for you to push. (That’s what we did before.)

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