Strava Route Bot for Telegram

What it does

This Telegram bot is supposed to support peope with strava-route obsessed friends. If you find yourself in a situation where friend sends you a strava route for a ride but you prefer to have turn-by-turn navigation you can use this Telegram Bot to download the GPX of the route and import it into your favourite routing app like Komoot. An online bot can be found here: https://t.me/strava_route_bot

Getting Started

Prerequisites

• docker and docker-compose installed
• strava account
• strava api access
  • checkout this tutorial on how to register an app and get api access
• Telegram Api Token (Documentation)

Setup

To start up your own bot, you can simply use the docker-compose.yml from this project or clone it using

git clone https://github.com/ConstantinB9/strava-route-bot.git

You will need to setup your own config.toml file within the folder of the docker-compose.yml

[Config]
email =  "your-strava-account@email.com"
password =  "your-top-secret-strava-password"
client_id =  (INT) STRAVA API CLIENT ID
client_secret =  "your strava api client secret"
access_token =  "" 
refresh_token =  "your strava api refresh token"
expires_at =  0 
telegram_api_token =  "YOUR-TELEGRAM-API-TOKEN"
jwt = ""

Now you're ready to start. Just run

docker-compose up -d