philipbeel/cycle-friend-me

Find friends and routes on Strava

Cycle Friend Finder

App : http://www.cyclefriend.me
Twitter : @philipbeel

Description

Cycle friend finder Helps you find athletes and discover routes where you live.

Usage

Install all dependencies:

$ node npm install

Create an Strava developer account https://www.strava.com/developers

Create a directory called /data. Create a file in this directory called strava_config

In strava_config add the following, including your credentials from you developer account:

{
    "access_token"    :""
    , "client_id"     :""
    , "client_secret" :""
    , "redirect_uri"  :""
}

Run the node script.

$ node cycle.js

This will start a node server at http://localhost:8088, visit the href to view the app running.

Why

When I moved to to a new town I wanted to find great cycling routes. This is a tricky task on Strava when you don't know anyone living nearby. Rather than trundling through Strava segments and hoping the athletes live round the corner I wrote this tool to do things programmatically.

How this works

Using Stravas V3 API, and when passed a valid athlete ID the following chain of events take place:

1. A lookup is done on the athlete id passed in to get back the city, town and state
2. Assuming this information is present a request for the southwest Lat/Long and northeast Lat/Long is performed against the google maps API for the athletes geo location
3. The co-ordinates are then used to lookup Strava segments within the bounds
4. For every matched segment the first page of male athletes ID's are retrieved and stored
5. A request is then made against each athlete to get their home location
6. For all athletes that live in the same location as the athlete ID passed in a filtered list is generated.
7. Results list is provided through the UI.