"Eddington Number"

[Supersuperleeds]

Thought it was time I played with the Strava API. Just attempted to implement this. Have a play and let me know if it works.

http://mcgalliard.org/eddington

(warning it's very rough, but it does calculate metric and imperial. )

Works fine on my data

 

[jefmcg]

Excellent, thanks. Works great.

It gives me an Eddington Number one less than I made it from Excel. My guess is that I have one ride that is in Excel as say 65 miles that is actually 64.94 or something similar in Strava.

FWIW, I add all the rides that start on that day (local time) in metres, then multiply by 0.000621371, and round to the nearest mile - up or down as appropriate. Strava records at much greater accuracy than it displays. Presumably it rounded up the measurements a little on your spread sheet, that would have cancelled each other out. Eg
22.6 + 21.5 + 20.4= 64.5 rounds to 65
22.55 + 21.45 + 20.35 = 64.35 rounds to 64

I've added a metres column to the second table if that is useful.

 

[jefmcg]

Thought it was time I played with the Strava API. Just attempted to implement this. Have a play and let me know if it works.

http://mcgalliard.org/eddington

(warning it's very rough, but it does calculate metric and imperial. )

It's been updated, it's a little bit slicker, and it saves you strava connection as a cookie. You can also put in date ranges.

http://mcgalliard.org/eddington

 

[Supersuperleeds]

@jefmcg as an aside how do you get to play with the Strava API?

 

[Supersuperleeds]

When you authorise Eddington Number you get this:

Eddington Number will be able to:

• Access your profile and activity data
• Upload activities for you and edit your profile

I understand the need for the first one but not the second?

 

[jefmcg]

@jefmcg as an aside how do you get to play with the Strava API?

You need to be logged into strava, then go to

http://labs.strava.com/developers/ and
https://www.strava.com/settings/api

Lots of lovely people have written libraries, so most of the work is done for you. I wrote it in PHP, so can recommend https://github.com/iamstuartwilson/strava.

When you authorise Eddington Number you get this:

Eddington Number will be able to:

• Access your profile and activity data
• Upload activities for you and edit your profile

I understand the need for the first one but not the second?

because I wrote it yesterday. Fixed now, only needs read permissions.

 

[fimm]

Cool. Thank you
My lifetime one seems to have gone up to 40 (miles). 33 for the year.
I like the imperial and metric versions.

(If you have any more time to do anything to it, one thing I liked about the Canini one was the bit that said "You need x more rides over y distance to increase your Eddington number to y")

 

[jefmcg]

I've been playing further with it, and it now uses either strava or MyCyclingLog to calculate your E-Number.

You can also use it to copy rides from strava to MyCyclingLog.

@fimm, your request was pretty painless, so it's in there, too.

Endomondo integration to follow shortly, and then I'll stop

http://mcgalliard.org/eddington

(I used it to copy all my rides from strava to MCL, and I get the same Eddington Number for both, so I think it's working well).

 

[Supersuperleeds]

I've been playing further with it, and it now uses either strava or MyCyclingLog to calculate your E-Number.

You can also use it to copy rides from strava to MyCyclingLog.

Endomondo integration to follow shortly, and then I'll stop

http://mcgalliard.org/eddington

(I used it to copy all my rides from strava to MCL, and I get the same Eddington Number for both, so I think it's working well).

I'm going to use the Strava to mycyclinglog bit. My Eddington Number for this year is now a mighty 5

 

[ianrauk]

I've been playing further with it, and it now uses either strava or MyCyclingLog to calculate your E-Number.



(I used it to copy all my rides from strava to MCL, and I get the same Eddington Number for both, so I think it's working well).

Nice one.. great work
Using MCL it gives me the same E number as I have in my signature

 

[Supersuperleeds]

I've been playing further with it, and it now uses either strava or MyCyclingLog to calculate your E-Number.

You can also use it to copy rides from strava to MyCyclingLog.

@fimm, your request was pretty painless, so it's in there, too.

Endomondo integration to follow shortly, and then I'll stop

http://mcgalliard.org/eddington

(I used it to copy all my rides from strava to MCL, and I get the same Eddington Number for both, so I think it's working well).

I think the You need to do xx rides of at least xx to increase it to xx is one out.

For example my excel calculation that I use shows I need to do 34 rides of 100 miles to hit 100, your calculation says 35, though in the listed rides there are 66, so your figure should also be 34, this is the same on the Strava and Mycyclinglog data.

By the way, brilliant what you are doing, so please don't think I am moaning/complaining!

 

[StuAff]

I've been playing further with it, and it now uses either strava or MyCyclingLog to calculate your E-Number.

You can also use it to copy rides from strava to MyCyclingLog.

@fimm, your request was pretty painless, so it's in there, too.

Endomondo integration to follow shortly, and then I'll stop

http://mcgalliard.org/eddington

(I used it to copy all my rides from strava to MCL, and I get the same Eddington Number for both, so I think it's working well).

Haven't updated on MCL for months, that's just saved me a lot of typing to get all the data in (updating the individual bike records will be relatively easy!). Thanks!

 

[fimm]

I've been playing further with it ... @fimm, your request was pretty painless, so it's in there, too.

Ooooh, thank you very much!!

 

[Supersuperleeds]

@jefmcg

I've just tried the Strava to Mycyclinglog - imports quickly and details look correct apart from the elevation. I think it is taking metres into mycylinglog even though my setting is feet, not that it matters for me as Strava screws up my elevation anyway!

Will definitely be continuing to use this so thank you. Also noticed a few other rides tonight that seem to have been uploaded using your tool.

 

[jefmcg]

I think the You need to do xx rides of at least xx to increase it to xx is one out.

Yup, you're right. I'll fix it shortly.

I think it is taking metres into mycylinglog even though my setting is feet, not that it matters for me as Strava screws up my elevation anyway!

You are now the official software tester. Congratulations on your new role.

I forgot to even consider units on that field. However, now i look at it, neither did mikwat. If you change units from km to miles, max speed and distance change, but climb is unaffected. I'll have to put in a checkbox so you can convert it to feet.