amplitude-api

Amplitude API

Installation

gem install amplitude-api

Basic Usage

The following code snippet will immediately track an event to the Amplitude API.

# Configure your Amplitude API key
AmplitudeAPI.config.api_key = "abcdef123456"


event = AmplitudeAPI::Event.new({
  user_id: "12345",
  event_type: "clicked on home",
  time: Time.now,
  insert_id: 'f47ac10b-58cc-4372-a567-0e02b2c3d479',
  event_properties: {
    cause: "button",
    arbitrary: "properties"
  }
})
AmplitudeAPI.track(event)

You can track multiple events with a single call, with the only limit of the payload size imposed by Amplitude:

event_1 = AmplitudeAPI::Event.new(...)
event_2 = AmplitudeAPI::Event.new(...)

AmplitudeAPI.track(event_1, event_2)

events = [event_1, event_2]
AmplitudeAPI.track(*events)

In case you use an integer as the time, it is expected to be in seconds. Values in the time field will be converted to milliseconds using ->(time) { time ? time.to_i * 1_000 : nil } You can change this behaviour and use your custom formatter. For example, in case you wanted to use milliseconds instead of seconds you could do this:

AmplitudeAPI.config.time_formatter = ->(time) { time ? time.to_i : nil },

You can speficy track options in the config. The options will be applied to all subsequent requests:

AmplitudeAPI.config.options = { min_id_length: 10 }
AmplitudeAPI.track(event)

User Privacy APIs

The following code snippet will delete a user from amplitude

# Configure your Amplitude API key
AmplitudeAPI.config.api_key = "abcdef123456"

# Configure your Amplitude Secret Key
AmplitudeAPI.config.secret_key = "secretMcSecret"

AmplitudeAPI.delete(user_ids: ["12345"],
  requester: "[e-mail]"
)

Currently, we are using this in Rails and using ActiveJob to dispatch events asynchronously. I plan on moving background/asynchronous support into this gem.

What's Next

• Thread support for background dispatching in bulk
• Configurable default account to use when no user_id present

Other useful resources

• Amplitude HTTP API V2 Api Documentation
• Segment.io Amplitude integration

Contributing

I'd love to hear how you're using this. Please check out the issues.