Mxpanel

Client for Mixpanel Ingestion API.

It provides a sync API that makes HTTP request to the Mixpanel API. And also a async API that buffers and delivers the buffered events to Mixpanel in background.

Checkout the documentation for more information.

Installation

The package can be installed by adding mxpanel to your list of dependencies in mix.exs:

def deps do
  [
    {:mxpanel, "~> 1.0.1"},
    {:jason, "~> 1.2"},
    {:hackney, "~> 1.17"}
  ]
end

Examples

# Create a client struct with your project token
client = %Mxpanel.Client{token: "<mixpanel project token>"}

# track an event
"signup"
|> Mxpanel.track("billybob")
|> Mxpanel.deliver(client)

# track an event with optional properties
"signup"
|> Mxpanel.track("billybob", %{"Favourite Color" => "Red"})
|> Mxpanel.deliver(client)

# set an IP address to get automatic geolocation info
"signup"
|> Mxpanel.track("billybob", %{}, ip: "72.229.28.185")
|> Mxpanel.deliver(client)

# track an event with a specific timestamp
"signup"
|> Mxpanel.track("billybob", %{}, time: System.os_time(:second) - 60)
|> Mxpanel.deliver(client)

# track an event in background, the event will be buffered, and later sent in batches
Mxpanel.Batcher.start_link(name: MyApp.Batcher, token: "<mixpanel project token>")

"signup"
|> Mxpanel.track("billybob")
|> Mxpanel.deliver_later(MyApp.MxpanelBatcher)

Checkout the documentation for complete usage and available functions.

Telemetry

Mxpanel currently exposes following Telemetry events:

• [:mxpanel, :batcher, :buffers_info] - Dispatched periodically by each running batcher exposing the size of each running buffer per endpoint in the pool.

  • Measurement: %{}
  • Metadata: %{batcher_name: atom(), buffer_sizes: %{atom() => [integer()]}}

Changelog

See the changelog.

Contributing

See the contributing file.

License

Copyright 2021 (c) Thiago Santos.

Mxpanel source code is released under Apache 2 License.

Check LICENSE file for more information.