Yahoo Pipe For Strava
I never used to keep track of my riding because it was too much work and essentially wasted time for no real value. That changed however when I discovered Strava. With my one-button GPS tracker, recording rides just requires a push of button at the start of a ride and switching it back off at the end of the ride. At home, I hook the little thingy up to my trusty MacBook Pro, transfer the data to my hard-drive and upload it to Strava. From here on, Strava does the rest. I can but don’t have to rename the ride, add a comment and select the bike I used. Quick, easy and done in no time.
One of the features currently still missing at Strava are RSS feeds and I’m short-circuited to hundreds of feeds 24/7, machine-tweet via Twitterfeed and distribute various content through FeedBurner. Google Newsreader sits in a Chrome tab at all times. Strava has API though, with methods to send and receive data. As a PHP-coder in my previous career I could have whipped up a script to extract the necessary Strava data and output it back to a valid RSS feed. But why bother if I can more easily push the desired Strava data through a Yahoo Pipe?
P.S. The pipe can be run with any Strava Athlete ID.
