/stravlexa

Unofficial Strava skill for Alexa. Get information about you and your recent activities.

Primary LanguagePython

Stravlexa - An Alexa Skill for Strava

This skill will provide you your latest sport activities on Strava for:

  • Running
  • Biking
  • Swimming It will also tell you your weight if provided/synced to Strava.

Installation

  • Copy Python script
  • Modify your API key
  • Mod your nginx to proxy to your stravlexa python script
  • Setup Alexa Skill with provided intent schema

Technical Aspects

This skill uses Flask-Ask, a Python micro-framework that simplifies developing Alexa skills. Great work John Wheeler! With a little knowledge of Python and Flask it is very simple to extend.

Nginx Configuration

Note:

  • If you're not confident using Nginx see the beginners guide!
  • In order to be able to interact with Amazon Alexa, your endpoint either has to provide a certificate from a trusted certificate authority or you have to upload a self-signed certificate in X.509 format.
  1. Add the following entry to your Nginx configuration (you may find it at /etc/nginx/sites-available/default):
location /stravlexa {
rewrite ^/stravlexa/?(.*)$ /$1 break;
    proxy_pass http://localhost:5000;
    client_max_body_size 0;

    proxy_connect_timeout  36000s;
    proxy_read_timeout  36000s;
    proxy_send_timeout  36000s;
}

  1. Restart Nginx.

  2. Start the CALexa skill as well:

python /yourpathtocstravlexa/stravlexa.py

Your service will now be available via https://yourdomain/stravlexa/

Configuration via Alexa Skills Kit

The configuration process is straigt forward, as known by other skills.