Sending Data to Mixpanel

Wondering how to send data to Mixpanel via our SDKs, APIs (import, track), Data Pipelines, Zapier, Segment, etc? Ask it here!

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benaj84New Participant
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import hisotircal data via segment io

I use segment, which funnels all my data through to mixpanel. I am now trying to load all my historical data (up to 2 years old) via segment api.It works, apart from it only processes data that is 5 days old, and I believe this is due to the fact that only the specific “import” api can be used for data that is older than 5 days - is this correct? If so, does anyone know how I can use the import api with segment? Or is the only way for me to directly implement the import api? thanks

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Jaz-CommunityManager
Mixpanel Community Team
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hwjNew Participant
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tracking forms using webflow

Hello all, I’m implementing Mixpanel using Webflow, are there any way to track forms filled by user ? The documentation of mixpanel.track_forms isn’t enough for me. I want to track fields filled by user in our form. Thanks in advanceBest wishes

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albertreedNew Participant
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identify then track not working

Hello - I’m calling ‘identify’ and then ‘track’ing an application load event using the javascript library. When I looked a “First Time” filter for the application load event, it’s showing many triggers for existing users. I have a hunch this is because sometimes indentify is reaching mixpanel out of order - when I look at the stream events this is sometimes (but not always) the case. Would that cause this problem?What’s the proper way to use identify? There doesn’t appear to be any sort of callback to let me know it’s done. 

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stephanieMixpanel Alum
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Use Node via Terminal to confirm data is sent to MixpanelMPKnowledgeDrop

Every week, we will release tips to help you get the most out of Mixpanel. Want to see more? Click here to see other #mpknowledgedrop articles.   Sometimes running a quick test can help us verify that everything is working as expected. With a testing mindset, I want to share a quick tutorial on how to confirm that events and user profiles are being sent to Mixpanel through node via your terminal.   Before we get started, here are some prerequisites you will need to go through this tutorial.    Prerequisite:  Node installed, npm (this comes with node installation), Terminal (How to open Terminal on Mac or Windows.) Systems I am using: MacOS Mojave, mac computer terminal Reference Guide: Mixpanel-node    Now let's get to the test!   Open your terminal. Note, I will be running this in my Documents directory (folder), but you can run in any directory you would like.  Install Mixpanel Node.js npm library by running npm install mixpanel  on your terminal.  Once the li

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stephanieMixpanel Alum
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Use HTTP Spec to send data to MixpanelMPKnowledgeDrop

Every week, we will release tips to help you get the most out of Mixpanel. Want to see more? Click here to see other #mpknowledgedrop articles.   Sometimes using new tools can be a bit intimidating. I know they are for me, especially if I have no idea how they work! Today we will be walking through how to send an event and user profile through an HTTP request.    Before we go through this tutorial, here are some prerequisites and systems you will need:   Prerequisite:  JSON(JavaScript Object Notation), Browser (ie Safari, Chrome, Mozilla), Base64 encoded, Mixpanel test project Systems I am using: MacOS Mojave, Chrome Browser Reference Guide: HTTP Spec   Now let’s get started sending in user profiles and events!   Create or Update User Profiles When using the HTTP spec for user profiles, you can either create or update a user’s profile properties. In this example we will create a new user profile. (if you want to know how update an existing user profile, skip to step 6) F

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tdsNew Participant
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What metrics are not available if I disable Cookies and local storage?

I want to disable cookies / local storage. Will I still be able to perform web analytics / product analytics? What metrics will I not be able to track?For retention/funnel analysis without cookies, I’ll have to perform user identity management on my own and send the user ID to Mixpanel, right? If I pass it the user ID to Mixpanel for analytics purposes, will it be a GDPR violation?

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Anonymous
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Track Interactions on (iFrame embedded) Youtube VideosMPKNOWLEDGEDROP

Every week, we will release tips to help you get the most out of Mixpanel. Want to see more? Click here to see other #mpknowledgedrop articles.   Table of Contents Introduction Game Plan Building the Piping Building the Logic TLDR, take me to the code!   Introduction   Normally, when you embed content via an <iframe> on your website that fetches a resource on an external domain, the parent page (your page) doesn’t have access to execute scripts inside the child <iframe>… this can make it difficult to track user actions on the child <iframe> and has caused a few headaches when the use of embedded content (like a video, song, or media object) is an important of your data. “Did they watch the video?”, "How long did they make it?” … that stuff is important! Luckily, YouTube provides an <iframe> API to us; this means we can write javascript on our parent page which is aware of ‘video player’ events that occur inside the embedded child i

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stephanie
stephanieMixpanel Alum
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Installing Swift on iOS AppMPKnowledgeDrop

Every week, we will release tips to help you get the most out of Mixpanel. Want to see more? Click here to see other #mpknowledgedrop articles!   Hi there lovely people of our QBQ community! In the past couple of months, I have started learning mobile development, specifically iOS13 & Swift5 on Udemy with Angela Yu. As part of the course, I made an app that lets you roll a pair of dice. In this post, I want to invite you on my learning journey and show you how I installed the Mixpanel Swift on my app.   Tools needed:  Git, GitHub, Cocoapods installed, Xcode, Terminal (How to open Terminal on Mac or Windows.), a Mixpanel project to send data Computer Systems I am using: MacOS Mojave  Reference Guide: Mixpanel Swift Docs, Git Cheatsheet Project Clone: dice app with no Mixpanel installed   Clone the dice app from GitHub into your computer.  You want to save a copy (clone) of the project somewhere where you remember. For me it is under a Swift folder. To clone t

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Anonymous
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All About Pixel TrackingMPKnowledgeDrop

Every week, we will release tips to help you get the most out of Mixpanel. Want to see more? Click here to see other #mpknowledgedrop articles. Hello! I’m AK and I’m an engineer at Mixpanel. Today I’m going drop some knowledge on pixel tracking with Mixpanel.   Background Pixel Tracking has been around for a long time - it is used by ESPs, facebook ads, google adsense, and many other advertising/email providers to keep track of what users click on. The essential idea of pixel tracking is simple:  create a 1x1 transparent image that the user cannot see...  host the images on a server you do control Embed that image on a webpage/email/ad (usually a domain you do not own or control) If that image is requested, the server which hosts that ‘image’ can be sure that a user has ‘viewed’ the page which contains that pixel The neat thing about images is that they can be shared across domains… for example, my page on: https://aktunes.com can contain HTML that requests images from a totall

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stephanieMixpanel Alum
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Examples of Incremental Super PropertiesMPKNOWLEDGEDROP

Every week, we will release tips to help you get the most out of Mixpanel. Want to see more? Click here to see other #mpknowledgedrop articles!   Creating incremental properties can help you tally how often a user takes specific actions on your site or in your app. The following code block is an example of a super property implemented in a web-based JavaScript application.   //wait until Mixpanel is loaded//alternatively you may use the loaded callback in the init() or set_config(): //https://github.com/mixpanel/mixpanel-js/blob/8b2e1f7b/src/mixpanel-core.js#L95 function waitUntilLoad(func) { if (mixpanel.__loaded) func(); else setTimeout(function() { waitUntilLoad(func); }, 10);}//a wrapper which acts a superIncrement method accepting a 'property' and 'amount'function superIncrement(property, amount) { waitUntilLoad(function() { superIncrementLogic(property, amount); });}//increment the user property and setup the event incrementoryfunction superIncrementLogic(property, amount) { incr

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2 years ago
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GilsonJrNew Participant
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gzip error import API

Hello guys,I am not able to import events into mixpanel using gzip Content-Encoding as suggested by api documentation.I got {"error":"gzip: invalid header","status":0} message back (error 400).I have been using python.Could anybody help me ?Best Regards.

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anaksunamunNew Participant
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How to implement pageview event in Mixpanel?

Hello, I am trying to find instructions on how to implement the ‘pageview’ event in Mixpanel.  Everything I find says that it used to be automatically tracked, but this isn’t the case. I’m looking for instructions that I can share with my developer. Can someone please help?Thanks.

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Jaz-CommunityManager
Mixpanel Community Team
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electricschmidtNew Participant
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Lookup tables aren't being found by API

I have recently been trying to ingest updated lookup tables through the ingestion API endpoint. After uploading the initial tables manually (Side note: It would be really nice if this could also be done through the api.) I have attempted to call the update endpoint but I am getting a 404 with the error message“{"error":"getByKeyId failed: cache.GetDataGroupByKey failed: data group not found","status":0}”I can see my lookup tables in the mixpanel UI and I called the endpoint with the ids found there. I also tried using the list lookup tables endpoint, this returns successfully but the results list is null. So it seems the API is unable to get at my lookup tables, but I’m not entirely sure? I thought it may have had something to do with the permissions on the service account used for the authorization but I have tried with different service accounts and different permissions to no avail. Am I missing something? Is this a known issue? Any help would be appreciated!

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ccfielNew Participant
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MailChimp Integration

I have successfully sync Mixpanel cohort to Mailchimp contacts, and We have successfully sent email using customer journey. Our issue now is Mailchimp event like Opened Campaign, Sent To, Unsubscribed, etc. is not sync back to Mixpanel. In your documentation, https://help.mixpanel.com/hc/en-us/articles/360057106912-Mailchimp-Integration. Did I understand correctly base on your documentation that Mailchimp also send event back to Mixpanel? Or do I need to do other steps?

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TerickNew Participant
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Node.Js Data upload taking Forever

Been on this for over 2 hours and it just uploaded a litter over 1300 records, am I doing something wrong? Video says 5 mins 

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julio3090New Participant
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Stop tracking session event after specific action

Hi, we have doubts about whether it’s possible to stop tracking a user session after a specific action has been triggered. We need this because we use a process of impersonation in our app and we don’t want to track these sessions performed by us, this will alter our user’s metrics. Is there any way to do that? Thanks!

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pranavctNew Participant
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Missing country fields

Hi, as I understand, Mixpanel uses client side SDKs to auto-infer location based on IP address. In cases where we can’t get our user’s IP address, we want our server to be able to update user profile property with the country the user has chosen in our settings. I see the API supports user profile property updates only for $ip. Is there anyway we can update just the Country field using our user’s settings in our app? One hack is randomly assign an IP for every country but want to hear a cleaner way to do this

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tubdaengineeringNew Participant
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Tracking Geolocation on User Profile Updates not working with Nodejs

Mixpanel.people.set(user.id, {  $first_name: user.firstName,  $last_name: user.lastName,  ip: '1154.118.3.75',}); Following the Pass Your Own IP Address (Node.js) guide, I have the above code on my Node app to track user location but the location properties never updates.User Location properties do not update. 

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ThisIsChrisNew Participant
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Dates before 1970

We’re trying to store our customer’s date of birth against their profile, and then using two calculated user profile fields - ‘Customer Age’ and ‘Customer Age Range’ (by diffing their DOB vs today, and doing an IFS to put this into groups eg <19, 18-24, 25-34, etc).This works great, EXCEPT for our users who were born before 1970 (I understand that 1970 is epoch etc, and why it is significant for date/time fields, but we’re passing through an ISO-8601 string so I expected this to still be transformed into a date). We’re using Segment to pipe our data into MixPanel (and other destinations), and we’re just sending an identify call with dob: dob.toISOString() etc to ensure it is in the correct format, but no dates prior to 1970 are converted into dates in MixPanel and instead it just comes through as the ISO string - all our users born after 1970 however have their DOB come through as a date as expected, so the DATEDIF operation works for our calculated fields.I’m aware we can just pass

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ida22New Participant
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import historical data such as user events

I want to import historical data such as user events. I need to have events which occurred before setting mixpanel with this project. I tried with https://mcgaw.io/tools/segment-amplitude-mixpanel-csv-historical-offline-user-data-import/#tool-section, but I’ve got the message “data was sent” and the error in console that my csv file is not in correct format.Maybe somebody have done the historical data import to mixpanel and have advices or link to better importer?

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simon.vuongNew Participant
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How to set custom properties for default devents?

In our react native app using the react native mixpanel library,  we want to add custom properties to the default events such as App Session and App Crashed.How can we do that?From the docs, one way we can do that is to use Super Properties, but this is not ideal for us since we cannot set-and-forget. It seems like Super Properties are ideal for user properties that don’t change very often which allows the library to just pull the previously set data from persisted storage. However, the properties we want to set can change more frequently.Ideally we could “intercept” the default events by adding a middleware such that before the default event is sent, we can attach custom properties without using Super Properties.Thanks in advance!

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DaddyMcSwaggaNew Participant
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How to identify a client cross platform without being signup

Hello, We have a couple of webviews inside our mobile app. We put our clients through those webviews before signup, which means that we haven’t called `identify` with a unique id. The problem is that these clients get two users profiles, one for mobile and one for web. Whats the best practice for solving this? It seems like we can use alias, do anyone know if we can use alias before we have called identify?

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Philip WeeNew Participant
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Run Mixpanel without Cookies and without localStorage

Somehow, running mixpanel.init with both disable_persistence: true,disable_cookie: true,still throws errors related to cookies, because I am running mixpanel in a sandboxed iframe which has several restrictionsI’m also getting an error related to reading props that I am unable to solveIs there a way to properly disable localStorage and cookies?

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K-SEIHOONNew Participant
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A 401 error occurs when requesting an import endpoint API using mixpanel api.

 Hello, everyone! I'd like to use mixpanel api to enter events that I couldn't enter before due to an error. However, the following error occurs. How can I use the import endpoint api? Access is forbidden due to request missing authentication details. Please see: https://developer.mixpanel.com/reference/ingestion-api-authenticationI sent it as below using Typescript + axios.  await axios({ method: 'POST', url: 'https://api.mixpanel.com/import', headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/json', Authorization: 'Basic <username>:<secretkey>', }, params: { project_id:<MIXPANEL_PROJECT_TOKEN>, stricts: 1, secret: <SECRET_KEY>, }, data: { event: <EVENT NAME>, properties: { $distinct_id: 'item.id', USER_ID: 'item.id', $email: 'item.email', $phone: 'item.phone_number', time: 'item.created_at', }, }, }).catch((e) => { console.log(e); }); Is there a proble

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tarasNew Participant
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How to track geolocation in Chrome extension MV3?

I am building Chrome extension with a manifest version 3 (VM3).The only way to track Mixpanel event that I found is to use HTTP Track Events integration option.Mixpanel doesn’t do geolocation from API integration.Unfortunately, I can’t get user IP address from Chrome extension.As a result, all events don’t have location. How to force geolocation for API integration or are there any other ways to work with Mixpanel from Chrome extension?Thanks.

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