Jan-Lukas Else

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Automatic Komoot export

Published on 2024-08-17 in 👨‍💻 Dev

Short link: https://b.jlel.se/s/785

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While I like Komoot and use it to navigate and record all my tours, whether that are bike tours or hiking trips, it sucks that there’s no option to export all your data. There’s also no official API to easily implement such functionality.

But as a developer, I was able to help myself and with some inspiration from a German Linux-Magazin article and some reverse engineering, I was capable of building a simple Go script that does exactly that.

It checks the internal Komoot API and downloads all the recorded tours as GPX files to your local disc. It also works incrementally, so if I rerun the script after a new recorded tour, it will download just that.

You are welcome to re-use my code. But I assume no liability and offer no guarantee that it will work!

Tags: Backup, Komoot

Interactions & Comments

Tbo Hello, I'm trying to use your script but I got a 403 error while fetching tours.https://www.komoot.com/api/v007/users/2175161847244/tours/?limit=10000&page=0&sort_direction=desc&sort_field=date&status=private&type=tour_recorded: unexpected status: 403I've added the kmt_sess value in the creds.yml file. If I copy paste the URL in my browser where I'm logged in I can get the list. So I assume I', doing something wrong within the cred file.This is how it looks ```user_id: "2175161847244" # "Komo…
- Jan-Lukas Else Copy the complete value of the "Cookie" HTTP header (a very long value) of the request using the "Copy value" function in the developer console. I just checked and it (still) works for me.
Jan-Lukas Else Has someone a) found a bug or security hole in GoBlog or b) actually sent well over 5 million requests to my site to like my post about how to export GPX files automatically from Komoot? 🤔
Jan-Lukas Else You know what’s amazing about programming? The power to automate boring or repetitive tasks effortlessly. Renaming hundreds of files, downloading GPX files from Komoot, or updating the visibility of countless statuses on Traewelling – sure, you could do it manually, but why would you, when you can write a quick script to handle it for you? It’s hands down the best life hack I’ve ever discovered! Big thanks to my parents for putting me on this path!
Jan-Lukas Else Extending my Komoot export script I’ve taken another look at my export script for Komoot (original post), now that Bending Spoons has acquired Komoot. I’ve extended the script to also download cover images and, if available, an image of the map – I found that in the API responses. Bending Spoons doesn’t have the best track record after acquiring other companies (like Evernote or an app called Filmic Pro), so I’m expecting Komoot to get worse in the near future. That’s why I’ve decided to save my data. At least reverse enginee…
- Giuze Hello, after searching for quite a bit where to find the cookie value, the script works perfectly.I thank you for your work... even before this Bending Spoons change, I wondered how I could backup all the data.I have a lot of registred tours so as consequence many errors. After deleting the last folder it works but maybe an improvement could be to automaticaly delete the last folder if you got the error (I understand that's extra work for you).Thank you again for this tool.
- Jan-Lukas Else An even better Komoot alternative? – OsmAnd After quickly trying out Outdooractive, I think I found an alternative that fits my needs a bit better and is also more inline with my values: OsmAnd. I tried it a few years ago, but was overwhelmed by the number of functionalities and settings. Today, I downloaded the app again and the UI is still not as clean as Komoot, but after taking some time to configure it, I think it’s the open-source alternative to Komoot, I am looking for. The number of functionalities and the customizability could…
- Rob Jetzt habe ich erst den passenden Blog-Beitrag gefunden. Ich hatte dir schon eine PM geschrieben aber frage nochmal hier, da es mglw. auch andere interessiert. In erster Linie funktioniert dein Touren Downloader sehr gut. Danke dafür! Aber eine Frage: Weisst du, wie man den Titel/Namen der Tour erhält, damit ich ihn z. B. zum Ordnernamen hinzufügen kann? Andernfalls ist es unmöglich, die heruntergeladenen Touren auf meiner Festplatte zu unterscheiden.
- Jan-Lukas Else Further extending my Komoot export script My Komoot export script has become quite popular. It was shared on a subreddit a few months ago, and I received many requests and comments about it. This morning, I decided to do some “guided vibe-coding” (I told Copilot what to implement, then checked and modified the result) and extend the export script. I replaced the static variables with CLI options for the credential file and download directory, added new flags to add the title to the file name and download planned tours. I also improve…
Flo Hi Jan-Lukas,thank you very much for this great script. I just backup all my tours due to the fact that Bending Spoons acquired Komoot.I have a few suggestions:- Can we use username & password instead of the cookie (so I can run it via cron job) like in the Linux-Magazin article? When I try to get their scripts running, I get "Bad Request, Status Code: 400" upon login- can we rename the tours based on the original tour name + date?All the best, Flo.
- Jan-Lukas Else Hi,regarding the first point: Unfortunately no. I had this that way earlier, but it stopped working due to some backend changes from Komoot. They added captchas on their login form.For the second point: That information is already present in the GPX file, but I can try and see if I can add a flag to name the tour directories with the name and date. I used the IDs as they should stay the same even if you rename a tour.
Flo Thanks a lot. That makes sense.On every run I get an error for a different tour:2025/03/22 09:12:25 Downloading tour 1665461144 failed: ErrValidator: response error for https://www.komoot.com/de-de/tour/1665461144/download: unexpected status: 500exit status 1I just keep re-trying :) I love it.
Klaus Thanks a million for this script!It took me some attempts to make it work, as I was not sure about the exact format of the cookie line in creds.yaml. It needs to look like:cookie: koa_re=...(The koa_re part might be different for you, but you do not need the ">" from the example file.)It should work copying "all", not just the value when seeing the cookie in your browser.To get the cookie, make sure to look at http header data, not "cookies" in Firefox,The actual download take quite long - I …
- Klaus I you ever feel like extending the script, here are a few ideas which I would love to see implemented:- Download comments, ideally with a limit of # per tour. I have described many of my tours in the 1st comment and would love to save that info as well- option to download planned tours: I read on reddit to change line 104 to "Param("type", "tour_planned")." - having that as an option would be much easier for most of us- option to not download images - this would be particularly nice for plann…
Jan-Lukas Else Further extending my Komoot export script My Komoot export script has become quite popular. It was shared on a subreddit a few months ago, and I received many requests and comments about it. This morning, I decided to do some “guided vibe-coding” (I told Copilot what to implement, then checked and modified the result) and extend the export script. I replaced the static variables with CLI options for the credential file and download directory, added new flags to add the title to the file name and download planned tours. I also improve…
- Jan-Lukas Else Mein Juli ‘25 im Rückblick Die Zeit vergeht schnell, auch der Juli ist nun vorbei, Zeit, einen kleinen Blick zurückzuwerfen. Anfang des Monats hatte ich eigentlich vor, eine Radtour von Goslar im Harz aus, entlang des Flusses Oker, bis nach Hause zu machen. Naja, letztlich bin ich nur wenige Kilometer gefahren, bevor ich gestürzt bin und abends dann noch zur Notaufnahme musste, um meine Hand, die ordentlich geschwollen war, röntgen zu lassen. Das erste Mal wegen einer eigenen Behandlung im Krankenhaus. Glücklicherweise…
- Jan-Lukas Else My July ‘25 in Review Time flies, and July is now over too, so it’s time to take a quick look back. At the beginning of the month, I had actually planned to go on a bike ride from Goslar in the Harz Mountains, along the Oker River, all the way home. Well, eventually, I only rode a few kilometers before I fell and had to go to the emergency room in the evening to have my hand, which was quite swollen, X-rayed. It was my first time in the hospital for my own treatment. Fortunately, nothing was broken, and I didn’t n…