How do I get my daily automatic export of runs/activities back?

You can write a python script that fetches the data and puts it in the format you like. Try Garth: https://pypi.org/project/garth/

Your use case is the old way. The modern way is to keep everything in the cloud service and it will provide you with all the stats you need. If you need it differently then you connect another service that reads the data. For example: https://runalyze.com/

If you want it displayed differently you can create your own service that uses the API to fetch all data and display it in the way you like.

You can get the totals in the calendar (note that there are filters at the top and bottom): https://connect.garmin.com/modern/calendar

I really like the progress summary report and the group function: https://connect.garmin.com/modern/progress-summary

e7andy said:

You can write a python script that fetches the data and puts it in the format you like. Try Garth: https://pypi.org/project/garth/

Your use case is the old way. The modern way is to keep everything in the cloud service and it will provide you with all the stats you need. If you need it differently then you connect another service that reads the data. For example: https://runalyze.com/

If you want it displayed differently you can create your own service that uses the API to fetch all data and display it in the way you like.

You can get the totals in the calendar (note that there are filters at the top and bottom): https://connect.garmin.com/modern/calendar

I really like the progress summary report and the group function: https://connect.garmin.com/modern/progress-summary

Thanks for your reply!

Yes, I have seen garth and two other python projects that seemed to have survived garmins antics, so far...  Its a race to the bottom, I always find it sad when companies create strategies that target its own customers.

You assume that "my way" was not cloudbased - that assumption is actually incorrect:
What I had before was in fact cloudbased. No local downloads, no excel. Just REST APIs, javascript running on the cloud and in this case google sheets to display the data. I could trigger the workload from my phone. Worked a charm for years.

"create your own service that uses the API" - what is this API you mention? I hope you don't mean the garmin API that comes with a hefty developer fee? That has been discussed before, and is certainly not an option for any end-customer. Buy a watch for say 1k and then to get your data you pay... What did it cost? 10k or 5k or something?

The calendar totals do not respect the filter, I've found. Likely an old bug, but if you set the filter to running activities, the weekly totals do not add up. It will add walking, swimming - everything. With some work, the calendar view might work accurately and will have been more usable.

The progress summary report is not bad as a raw data view. Too bad it is not applicable to my use case since you cannot get to it, even though I have my data public. It looks awfully alot like the json data on the aforementioned activities list page that was closed down...

But I think you are right in that the python scripts are the only working approach today, save for using strava.
A sad state of affairs, really.

Again, thanks for your thoughtful reply and suggestions! Most appreciated!