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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stephanie
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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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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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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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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stephanie
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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stephanie
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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The basics of tracking - 2 cases

Hi,I just want to make sure about set up tracking in 2 events:1. First element is <input><input className="form-control" type="email" placeholder="Email" value={email} data-cy="unique_number1" />What is the best way to make an event on input change? Call the script on the "OnChange" attribute? Or I can set up such an event on CSS Selector [data-cy]? (I would prefer second option with CSS) 2. The second case is:<buttonclass="[dynamic_class_name]" tabindex="0" type="button" data-cy="unique_number2">Add user</button>Can I do here such Mixpanel code?:<script type="text/javascript">  mixpanel.track_links('button[data-cy="unique_number2"]', 'Add user', {"property1": "something"});</script>   

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״Install app" event (by third party) has inconsistent "Distinct_id"

Hi all!I am using Appsflyer to track my marketing campaigns, and push the app install event (iOS) into Mixpanel.I can see the events occurring in Mixpanel, and a new user is formed (receiving a distinct_id by using the “Send advertiser id” that Appsflyer provides).The problem-When the user performs it’s first action in the app- Mixpanel recognizes him as a new user (not making the connection to the user created at the “Install app” event) and provides him with a new distinct_id-thus disconnecting the “install app” event from all future events.How do I create a continuity between the “install app” to all future events (by having a single distinct_id for all of the user’s events)? **When “Send advertiser ID” is disabled, a user is created in Mixpanel (event- “install app”) without a distinct_id**  

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How to track a complete web > app OR app > web sign-up funnel using distinct IDs and ID merge?

Historically our primary user flow has been Web Visit > Web Sign-Up > Mobile App Login > Mobile App Events. So using Distinct ID and ID Merge has worked perfectly fine for reporting on this funnel.However, we’re getting ready to launch an App Sign-Up that creates 3 additional sign-up flows:App Download > App Session > App Sign-Up Web Visit > App Download > App Session > App Sign-Up App Download > App Session > Web Visit > Web Sign-Up#1 we know is OK to track. But #2 and #3 we are scratching our heads on. Even though MixPanel uses Distinct ID and ID Merge to attribute user activity post-login, because MP’s Distinct ID is cookie based and these events occur on different devices and apps without cookies… How would MP be able to use ID Merge in this situation? It seems like #2 and #3 would result in orphaned events that occur prior to Sign-Up.I also saw that there’s documentations about a server-side implementation, but not sure if that solves this issue or

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How to use Mixpanel inside service worker

How to use mixpanel inside service worker.I’m developing browser extension with manifest v3 and the background now is service worker so many of the old configs are changed. and when I tried to use mixpanel inside service worker it didn’t work!

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Got Error: unable to get local issuer certificate

Getting Error: Unable to get local issuer certificate on loading Data Set  

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Olena11New Participant
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How correctly edit data about another user>

Hi!In my projects, users have opportunity to edit data about other users. So, I should keep actual information about each user in mixpanel, I do next steps:mixPanel.reset(); // before I identified as memixPanel.identify(anotherUserId); // identify as another user for editing info for himmixPanel.peopleSet(newDataAboutAnotherUser); // set new data about another usermixPanel.identify(myUserId); // return to my userTell me, please, if these steps are correct or there are special algorithms for this situation?Thank you!  

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ali.makhmaliNew Participant
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How to detect if Do Not Track hits

Hi, Is there any way to know how many tracking have been missed because of Do Not Track? We’re using VueJs with TypeScript. Thank you.

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Unreal Engine

Does Mixpanel have a full configuration for Unreal Engine that’s been launched or in the works?

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Matt9187New Participant
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Mixpanel plugin for Bubble.io

I'm using the mixpanel plugin for a Bubble.io app that I'm building. In bubble, there is a way to sent click events to my mixpanel account. I validated that that connection is working. I can see the click events when I go into the insights section of mixpanel (the click event is ‘Document Listing Clicked’). I can also set certain variables in bubble when the click event is sent to mixpanel, but it doesn't look like those are being send to mixpanel (listing title, listing description, listing category). Has anyone used mixpanel and bubble together before? If so, are you aware of a way to access the click event values?    

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Set up tracking - same properties across different events

We have a social app were people can join and create activities… (For example “Drink a beer in the park”)The most important information we want to have is what activities are successful:how many people have joined what type of activity? (sports event, work event...) how many messages were written in the activity chat? …So our questions are not about the user but about the activity the user took part.  My question is how to set up the tracking in our case? Because a user can take multiple actions that influence the same activity: Write a message in the chat  join the activity…  

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Mixpanel proxy

Hello everyone,I wanted to setup a proxy for my Mixpanel project. But I want to be able to change the token for the project in the proxy. This is because we want to ensure that the key cannot be scraped by any bad actors and used to pollute our Mixpanel data.  But I am finding it difficult to change the token and the Mixpanel keeps returning 0. Does anyone know what the best solution is to change the token? I have found that everything is url encoded but even after I re encode everything again it keeps returning 0 for me.

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EnricoNew Participant
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Capturing Screenshots or Screenrecordings

Hey everyone!We are using Mixpanel for our smartphone app and we are curious whether we could track it as an event when people screenshot or screenrecord something within our app. Is there a way to cover this with Mixpanel? Thanks a lot in advance! Enrico

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cherise
cheriseMixpanel Alum
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Import Issues

If you followed the steps for importing events older than five days but your import isn’t working, here are the most common issues to look for first: You’re using your project’s API Key instead of the API Secret or Token. To find your API Secret, click your user icon in the upper right hand corner of your Mixpanel project, select Account from the dropdown, and click Projects. This is easily confused with your API Key, but the distinction is important, as your import will not work if you use the API Key. You’re importing events that have not been triggered in the past 30 days. Following import, events will not be displayed in Engagement reports if they have not been triggered for the past 30 days (i.e., they will be automatically hidden from the UI). If you aren't importing any recent events, try firing a "dummy" one with the same name to resurface old events and force the event to appear in the dropdown. You’re not using valid JSON. You can try using a third-party JSON validator (l

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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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Tracking Events for a Group

I’m having some difficulty understanding the documentation around tracking Group analytics. I do have the Groups package on my account, and I am using Segment for sending over data. I seem to be doing okay with linking an identified user to one or more groups, by calling Segment’s analytics.group() function. (Under the hood, this calls add_group and set_group). However, I’m struggling to understand how to track events performed by a user, within the context of a specific group. A user may be a member of one or more groups, so I want to ensure that when user performs Action A, that it tracks to Group A and not Group B.It seems that there is a function track_with_groups which is designed for this purpose. But, then reading elsewhere, it looks like I can just use the regular mixpanel.track function, as long as I include the group key and group ID/value as a property in the event. So, my questions are this:Can I use the regular mixpanel.track function (via Segment’s analytics.track) to tra

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"app_open" events are reported incorrectly on iOS 15

Hi all,We’ve been using Mixpanel for our iOS app for almost a year. The app is built with SwiftUI.Lately we’ve been seeing a lot of “app_open” events that are reported incorrectly - meaning we are seeing these events in profiles of users who are not actually opening the app.This only happens for users who are using iOS 15 and above, and regardless of the app version they are using.  We have no processes running in the background of the app, so there should be no communication with the app if it isn’t open.  Has anyone else encountered this? Any idea what could be causing this? It’s messing up all of our reports… Thanks!

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What is the time used for tracking?

Hello, When I use mixpanel.track method on a front end/client side, what time is used for this event? Is it the time of the client, or the time of the server? I’ve read the documentation and it’s not specified. Does the event already have a time attached to it on client side (=before being sent to the server) or is it when the event is received by the server that a time is added to the event (when added to your database)?Thank you in advance :)

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abiettaNew Participant
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Is option "ignore_dnt: true" still working?

Hi guys, i tried to use mixpanel in my simple project with Angular but i have some issues with DNT. I set the “ignore_dnt” to true but i still riceive the message "Mixpanel warning: This browser has "Do Not Track" enabled. This will prevent the Mixpanel SDK from sending any data. To ignore the "Do Not Track" browser setting, initialize the Mixpanel instance with the config "ignore_dnt: true"” and all the call track to mixpanel is blocked.My mixpanel.init command is simply that:mixpanel.init(MIXPANEL_PROJECT_TOKEN, {        ignore_dnt: true,        debug: true,        api_host: MIXPANEL_HTTPS        } I use Edge 100.0.1185.44 with no addon.

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