Strava on any website.

Strava was founded in 2009 by Mark Gainey and Michael Horvath, two Harvard rowers who wanted a way to recreate the camaraderie of a college team after graduation. From the start, the platform was built around social verification: every activity you upload is timestamped, tied to your account and visible to your chosen audience. The Strava API v3, which is the sanctioned way for third parties to read activity data, enforces that audience model through OAuth 2.0. When you connect Poper to Strava, you grant a scoped read token that respects your hidden activities and your follower-only settings. Widgets that scrape strava.com without OAuth are brittle and tend to get blocked. Poper uses the official OAuth flow, refreshes tokens automatically, and never stores your password. You can revoke access from Strava Settings > My Apps at any time and the widget stops syncing.

Strava activities exist in three visibility states: Everyone, Followers, and Only You. Most public embeds only handle the first one and silently drop the rest. Poper's OAuth scope lets you choose what the connected athlete grants to the widget. The default read scope pulls public activities, which is usually what coaches, athletes and race pages want. Granting read_all can allow private and follower-only activities when the connected athlete explicitly approves it. Either way, the widget follows Strava's access rules, so the feed never becomes a workaround for content the athlete did not authorize.

Athletic content needs context. A feed card should make it easy to scan what happened without overwhelming the page. Poper focuses on the details the widget actually supports: activity title, sport type, distance, moving time, pace, elevation when available, and the date the activity was published. That is enough for a visitor to understand the training signal, click through to Strava when they want the full source, and keep reading the rest of your page.

Poper renders recent activities for one connected Strava athlete with core activity metrics where available.

Garmin makes many of the watches that record the activities Strava displays, but Garmin Connect is a more closed ecosystem for third-party website embeds. Strava is built around public profiles, shared activity proof and an API that third-party tools can use with OAuth. Strava Premium unlocks deeper analysis features inside Strava itself, but the feed widget works for free Strava accounts. If your readers care about visible training proof rather than a private device dashboard, Strava is the better source for a website feed.