How to Get Your Tours out of Komoot
In my previous article “The Future of Komoot: Time to Look for Alternatives?“, I have described what has happened with Komoot.
In short: Komoot was sold to a company, with a very questionable track record.
This raises concerns about the future of the service. Additionally, some people could prefer to avoid the new owner from the ethical point of view.
Mostly all tracks I hiked during the last 15 years, including the most remarkable ones, are stored in Komoot. Many tracks for my “hopefully will do in the future” wishlist are also there. I want to be sure that I will not lose this data.
All these raise another the important question: how to get your data out of Komoot?
Probably you also have a lot of data you do not want to lose in Komoot, and also want to secure it. If so, this post can be useful for you.
I’m aware of two ways to get your data from Komoot:
- For tech enthusiasts
- For everyone else
Method 1: For tech enthusiasts
Jan-Lukas Else wrote a go program which downloads your tracks to your computer – you can check his post about it “Automatic Komoot export“. To use this solution, you need to:
- Have the go language runtime installed on your machine
- download the application from the git repo https://git.jlel.se/jlelse/KomootExport
- Rename creds.example yaml to creds.yaml and put your credential in it (in yaml format of course)
- Start the app from the command line
This should download all your completed tours.
According to a reddit comment, to download your planned tours you must change line 104 in file “main.go” file to:
Param("type", "tour_planned").People reported that this worked for them. I personally, chose the method 2.
Method 2: For everyone else
You write an e-mail to “datenschutzbeauftragter@komoot.de” (this is an email of Komoot’s privacy protection officer according to Komoot’s “Data privacy statement“) using the e-mail your Komoot account is linked to. In this email you ask to provide you your data (GDPR requires this for EU residents, but I’m sure Komoot will do this for any user).
After some time, you will receive a link to download all your data, not just the tracks.
In my case, I received an email with the link after 26 hours 55 minutes (aka the next day) – pretty fast.
Technical note: as you can see, the link is a direct link to AWS S3 bucket file without any permissions control.
The downloaded zip contains all the data – from my avatar to all my tracks:
Each tour is placed in a folder. The folder includes:
- GPX track – the track you can open/import to any tools of your choice
- And “tour.json” – a json formatted text file with the metadata. The main part of this metadata are type (either “tour_recorded” or “tour_planned”) and the name.
If your tours collections are small – you can rename GPX files and group them (completed/planned, sport types) manually. If not, you can write a script for your OS which will do this automatically or ask ChatGPT to do this.
