> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.strautomator.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Share and Reuse Strautomator Automations with Athletes

> Learn how to share your Strautomator automations with other athletes and how to copy shared automations from the community into your own account.

Shared automations let you publish any of your automations as a template that other Strautomator users can copy into their own accounts with a single click. If you find an automation that does something useful, you can adopt it without having to recreate the conditions and actions from scratch.

## Who can do what

<Note>
  **Creating and sharing** an automation requires a PRO subscription. **Using** someone else's shared automation is available to all users, including free accounts.
</Note>

This means you can discover and copy community automations even on the free plan — a great way to get started with powerful setups before deciding whether to upgrade.

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## How to share one of your automations

<Steps>
  <Step title="Open the automation editor">
    Go to **Automations** and click the automation you want to share to open its editor.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Click the Share button">
    Find the **Share** button at the top or bottom of the editor. Strautomator creates a unique public URL for that automation.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Copy the share URL">
    Copy the URL and send it to whoever you want — paste it in a forum post, a club chat, social media, or anywhere else.
  </Step>
</Steps>

Once shared, the automation is publicly accessible via its URL. Anyone who visits the link can preview it and copy it to their account.

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## What gets shared (and what doesn't)

Sharing is designed to be safe. When you share an automation, Strautomator **strips all personal data** before publishing it:

* GPS coordinates in location conditions are removed or anonymized.
* Gear IDs (specific bike or shoe IDs from your Strava account) are not included.
* Your personal account details are not attached to the shared automation.

The shared automation contains only the structure — condition types and logic, action types — so others can customize the values for their own setup after copying.

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## How to use someone else's shared automation

<Steps>
  <Step title="Visit the share URL">
    Open the link shared by another athlete. You'll see a preview of the automation — its name, conditions, and actions.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Click 'Use this automation'">
    If you want to add it to your account, click the **Use this automation** button. Strautomator copies the automation into your account as a new, independent automation.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Customize it for your setup">
    Open the newly copied automation in your editor. Update any conditions or actions that reference personal values — for example, set your own gear, adjust location pins, or change target distances to match your training.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Enable and save">
    Enable the automation and save. It will run on your next Strava activity that matches the conditions.
  </Step>
</Steps>

Copying a shared automation creates a fully independent copy. Changes you make to your copy do not affect the original, and changes the original owner makes later do not update your copy.

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## Managing your shared automations

To see all the automations you have shared:

1. Go to **Automations** in the main navigation.
2. Click the **Shared** tab.

From here you can see each shared automation, update it (to reflect changes you've made locally), or delete the share link to make it no longer accessible.

<Info>
  Updating a shared automation from the Shared tab publishes the latest version to the same URL. Users who already copied the old version are not affected — their copies remain unchanged.
</Info>

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## Community templates

Strautomator also maintains a set of official community templates visible from the **New Automation** screen. These are curated shared automations that cover popular use cases — renaming commutes, assigning gear by sport type, adding weather to descriptions, and more. Browse them as a source of inspiration or copy them directly as a starting point.