Anyone getting 403 error from Garmin Connect starting today?

[fulmar2]

The code has been working for a while, but today started getting a 403 error from Garmin Connect. Anyone else experiencing that?

[cabby26]

Same

[ltcomd]

Same here. Some days ago it was working...

[fulmar2]

I am guessing that Garmin changed the URL. But i don’t know how to figure out what the new URL is (assuming they still support this).

[DaveWilcock]

Are you getting a 403 when trying to login or is it a 403 when performing one of the requests for data?

[fulmar2]

Seems like this URL at least produces a blank page:

https://connect.garmin.com/modern/proxy/activitylist-service/activities/search/activities

I log in using a browser and try to visit this URL and it is just two HTML tags. No error is generated during the log in process that I know of…

[DaveWilcock]

Seems like this URL at least produces a blank page:

https://connect.garmin.com/modern/proxy/activitylist-service/activities/search/activities

I log in using a browser and try to visit this URL and it is just two HTML tags. No error is generated during the log in process that I know of…

I'm not sure if this is new, but a request to the search endpoint here in the browser, looks like it's passing a bearer token in the request header, which indicates that this search endpoint is now behind some auth mechanism. Will do some more investigation when I've got some time.

[anniew86]

perhaps it should be https://connect.garmin.com/activitylist-service/activities/ ... ?

[fulmar2]

perhaps it should be https://connect.garmin.com/activitylist-service/activities/ ... ?

Thanks, I just tried that link which produces an error page. Appreciate the suggestion, though.

[teibaz]

I can see that everyone who uses garmin connect in all programming languages faces the same issue. I found very nice options here:
pe-st/garmin-connect-export#95

but it takes time to test and develop everything. If someone will do the same - let us know, otherwise I will try to sit this weekend and try to change the code.

[anniew86]

here some other issues (and solutions) mostly for python clients:

petergardfjall/garminexport#102
petergardfjall/garminexport#103
petergardfjall/garminexport#104
petergardfjall/garminexport#105
cyberjunky/python-garminconnect#144

[fulmar2]

here some other issues (and solutions) mostly for python clients:

petergardfjall/garminexport#102 petergardfjall/garminexport#103 petergardfjall/garminexport#104 petergardfjall/garminexport#105 cyberjunky/python-garminconnect#144

Thanks for the links anniew. Do you see how to integrate Garth with this PHP project? I’m at a loss.

[jpgnz]

Not easily. Essentially there needs to be a rewrite of a large chunk of the authentication workflow of this library to match what Garth is doing in Python.

[DaveWilcock]

I’ll take a look tonight and see what’s what.

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[jpgnz]

@DaveWilcock I found this comment pretty useful: petergardfjall/garminexport#104 (comment)

I got curl-impersonate to compile and have it loaded into my php install (docs here) and was hopeful it would just work like the comment suggested on their library, but it didn't, same 403 error. I was going to attempt to see what else I might need to adjust in your library but I ran out of time.

I don't think it's necessarily feasible for all users to be able to compile and adjust their php configuration, but unsure. For me it would be completely acceptable to require that.

The Garth solution definitely appears to be the best long term way as it seems to impersonate the mobile application, but looks like quite a bit of work.