How to export your data from Strava

Requesting the GDPR export, what arrives, and how to open it.

easy Wait: a few hours, up to ten days for a large account

Strava is required to give you a copy of the data it holds about you, including health data and location history. The request itself is free, and arrives as .zip containing CSV plus your original activity files. Typical wait: a few hours, up to ten days for a large account.

Strava: Download or Delete Your Account

Step by step

  1. Switch your account language to English first

    The CSV column headers are written in your account language, and almost every tool that reads them expects English.

  2. Open Settings, then My Account

    Download or Delete Your Account, then Request your archive. Do not continue past that into deletion.

  3. Request the archive

    You will get an email when it is ready.

  4. Wait

    A few hours is typical. A decade of activities can take up to ten days.

  5. Open activities.csv first

    It is the index. Each row points at the original file you uploaded, in whatever format you uploaded it.

Opening your Strava export

Muletto reads a Strava export directly - the zip, without unpacking it first - and finds the health data and location history inside.

It runs in the browser: the archive is never uploaded, there is no account, and nothing is installed. Open several exports at once and they become one library, with the photographs that appear in more than one of them found automatically.

The request lives on the page headed Download or Delete Your Account, so the button above lands you somewhere that offers to delete everything. That is Strava's own layout, not a mistake here. Choose Request your archive and do not continue past it.

Open your Strava export

Worth knowing

The request lives on the page headed Download or Delete Your Account, so the button above lands you somewhere that offers to delete everything. That is Strava's own layout, not a mistake here. Choose Request your archive and do not continue past it.
Photographs are not in the bulk export. The activity data is - one file per activity plus an activities.csv summarising every one of them with date, type, distance, moving time, elevation, heart rate, calories and gear - but the pictures you attached to those activities are not, and there is no option that adds them. The per-activity files come back in whatever format the activity was originally recorded in, GPX or FIT or TCX, and you cannot ask for one format across the lot; a run from a watch and a ride from a phone can arrive as different file types in the same download.
Your activity files come back exactly as they went in, so one folder can hold .fit, .gpx and .tcx files and gzipped versions of all three.
Activities entered by hand have no file at all and an empty filename column.
The archive contains your photos and private notes as well as the tracks.

Common questions

How do I download all my Strava activities at once?

Request the bulk archive from Settings, My Account, Download or Delete Your Account. It contains every activity file in its original format plus an index CSV.

Why are the columns in my Strava export in Norwegian?

Strava writes the CSV headers in whatever language your account is set to. Switch to English before requesting if you plan to use any tool on it.

What format are Strava activity files in?

Whatever you uploaded. A single archive commonly contains .fit, .gpx and .tcx files, some of them gzipped, side by side.