POST/users-by-id/:user_custom_id/events/

Create event by user custom id

You can create an event using a user_custom_id.

Attributes	Type	Required	Description
user_custom_id	string	yes	The unique identifier for the user which is provided by the client. Previously: "user_id".
data	JSON	yes	A valid json object with additional data.
name	string	yes	An event name.
timestamp	datetime	no	A datetime when an event occured in UNIX format.

Request

CURL

curl -X POST -H "Authorization: Token <your_64_char_api_key>"
     -H "Accept: */*; version=2" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{
       "name":"profile_updated",
       "timestamp": 1426967129,
       "data":{
          "keyData1":"value for key data 1"
       }
    }' "https://<your_app_subdomain>.user.com/api/public/users-by-id/:user_custom_id/events/"

JavaScript

var data = JSON.stringify({
  "name": "profile_updated",
  "timestamp": 1426967129,
  "data": {
    "keyData1": "value for key data 1"
  }
});

var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
xhr.withCredentials = true;

xhr.addEventListener("readystatechange", function () {
  if (this.readyState === 4) {
    console.log(this.responseText);
  }
});

xhr.open("POST", "https://<your_app_subdomain>.user.com/api/public/users-by-id/:user_custom_id/events/");
xhr.setRequestHeader("authorization", "Token <your_64_char_api_key>");
xhr.setRequestHeader("accept", "*/*; version=2");
xhr.setRequestHeader("content-type", "application/json");

xhr.send(data);

PHP

<?php
    
  $curl = curl_init();
  
  curl_setopt_array($curl, array(
    CURLOPT_URL => "https://<your_app_subdomain>.user.com/api/public/users-by-id/:user_custom_id/events/",
    CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
    CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
    CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
    CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
    CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
    CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "POST",
    CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => "{\r\n   \"name\":\"profile_updated\",\r\n \"name\":1426967129,\r\n  \"data\":{\r\n      \"keyData1\":\"value for key data 1\"\r\n   }\r\n}",
    CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => array(
      "Accept: */*; version=2",
      "authorization: Token <your_64_char_api_key>",
      "content-type: application/json"
    ),
  ));
  
  $response = curl_exec($curl);
  $err = curl_error($curl);
  
  curl_close($curl);
  
  if ($err) {
    echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
  } else {
    echo $response;
  }

Python

import http.client
    
conn = http.client.HTTPSConnection("<your_app_subdomain>.user.com")

payload = "{\r\n   \"name\":\"profile_updated\",\\r\n  \"name\":1426967129,\\r\n \"data\":{\r\n      \"keyData1\":\"value for key data 1\"\r\n   }\r\n}"

headers = {
    'authorization': "Token <your_64_char_api_key>",
    'content-type': "application/json"
    }

conn.request("POST", "/api/public/users-by-id/:user_custom_id/events/", payload, headers)

res = conn.getresponse()
data = res.read()

print(data.decode("utf-8"))

Response

{
  "id": 86,
  "created": true
}

'created: true' means that this is first occurrence for created event
'created: false' means that there is at least one occurence for this event in database