Access "private_note" field

[trudeauperron]

Hi,

Since this summer, strava added the "private_note" field for the activities. Is there a way to extract this field with the function get_activity() ?

[fawda123]

@trudeauperron the get_activity() function is just a simple API call with the URL https://www.strava.com/api/v3/activities/, where the activity id is attached to the end. The return call is whatever the API wants to provide and I don't think there's a way to specify which fields are returned. These are the fields returned from my most recent activity (sorted alphabetically):

[1] "achievement_count"             "athlete"                       "athlete_count"                 "available_zones"              
 [5] "average_heartrate"             "average_speed"                 "best_efforts"                  "calories"                     
 [9] "comment_count"                 "commute"                       "description"                   "device_name"                  
[13] "display_hide_heartrate_option" "distance"                      "elapsed_time"                  "elev_high"                    
[17] "elev_low"                      "embed_token"                   "end_latlng"                    "external_id"                  
[21] "flagged"                       "from_accepted_tag"             "gear_id"                       "has_heartrate"                
[25] "has_kudoed"                    "heartrate_opt_out"             "hide_from_home"                "id"                           
[29] "kudos_count"                   "laps"                          "location_city"                 "location_country"             
[33] "location_state"                "manual"                        "map"                           "max_heartrate"                
[37] "max_speed"                     "moving_time"                   "name"                          "perceived_exertion"           
[41] "photo_count"                   "photos"                        "pr_count"                      "prefer_perceived_exertion"    
[45] "private"                       "resource_state"                "segment_efforts"               "similar_activities"           
[49] "splits_metric"                 "splits_standard"               "start_date"                    "start_date_local"             
[53] "start_latitude"                "start_latlng"                  "start_longitude"               "stats_visibility"             
[57] "timezone"                      "total_elevation_gain"          "total_photo_count"             "trainer"                      
[61] "type"                          "upload_id"                     "upload_id_str"                 "utc_offset"                   
[65] "visibility"                    "workout_type"     

I did not include a "private note" for this activity, but I'm curious if that is returned with the API call if one is provided.

[trudeauperron]

@fawda123 Thanks for your answer. I tried to include the "private note" in my activity and nothing was return by the API.

[fawda123]

Yea, my guess is it's not something exported by the Strava API. Not much I can do on my end about that.