Annotations

For instructions on how to authenticate to use this endpoint, see API overview.

Create, Read, Update and Delete annotations. See docs for more information on annotations.

Endpoints

GET
POST
GET
PATCH
DELETE

List all annotations

Required API key scopes

annotation:read

Path parameters

  • project_id
    string

    Project ID of the project you're trying to access. To find the ID of the project, make a call to /api/projects/.

Query parameters

  • limit
    integer

    Number of results to return per page.

  • offset
    integer

    The initial index from which to return the results.

  • search
    string

    A search term.

Response


Example request

GET /api/projects/:project_id/annotations
export POSTHOG_PERSONAL_API_KEY=[your personal api key]
curl \
    -H "Authorization: Bearer $POSTHOG_PERSONAL_API_KEY" \
    <ph_app_host>/api/projects/:project_id/annotations/

Example response

Status 200
RESPONSE
{
  "count": 123,
  "next": "http://api.example.org/accounts/?offset=400&limit=100",
  "previous": "http://api.example.org/accounts/?offset=200&limit=100",
  "results": [
    {
      "id": 0,
      "content": "string",
      "date_marker": "2019-08-24T14:15:22Z",
      "creation_type": "USR",
      "dashboard_item": 0,
      "dashboard_id": 0,
      "dashboard_name": "string",
      "insight_short_id": "string",
      "insight_name": "string",
      "insight_derived_name": "string",
      "created_by": {
        "id": 0,
        "uuid": "095be615-a8ad-4c33-8e9c-c7612fbf6c9f",
        "distinct_id": "string",
        "first_name": "string",
        "last_name": "string",
        "email": "user@example.com",
        "is_email_verified": true,
        "hedgehog_config": {
          "property1": null,
          "property2": null
        },
        "role_at_organization": "engineering"
      },
      "created_at": "2019-08-24T14:15:22Z",
      "updated_at": "2019-08-24T14:15:22Z",
      "deleted": true,
      "scope": "dashboard_item"
    }
  ]
}

Create annotations

Required API key scopes

annotation:write

Path parameters

  • project_id
    string

    Project ID of the project you're trying to access. To find the ID of the project, make a call to /api/projects/.

Request parameters

  • content
    string
  • date_marker
    string
  • creation_type
  • dashboard_item
    integer
  • deleted
    boolean
  • scope

Response


Example request

POST /api/projects/:project_id/annotations
export POSTHOG_PERSONAL_API_KEY=[your personal api key]
curl 
    -H 'Content-Type: application/json'\
    -H "Authorization: Bearer $POSTHOG_PERSONAL_API_KEY" \
    <ph_app_host>/api/projects/:project_id/annotations/\
	-d content="string"

Example response

Status 201
RESPONSE
{
  "id": 0,
  "content": "string",
  "date_marker": "2019-08-24T14:15:22Z",
  "creation_type": "USR",
  "dashboard_item": 0,
  "dashboard_id": 0,
  "dashboard_name": "string",
  "insight_short_id": "string",
  "insight_name": "string",
  "insight_derived_name": "string",
  "created_by": {
    "id": 0,
    "uuid": "095be615-a8ad-4c33-8e9c-c7612fbf6c9f",
    "distinct_id": "string",
    "first_name": "string",
    "last_name": "string",
    "email": "user@example.com",
    "is_email_verified": true,
    "hedgehog_config": {
      "property1": null,
      "property2": null
    },
    "role_at_organization": "engineering"
  },
  "created_at": "2019-08-24T14:15:22Z",
  "updated_at": "2019-08-24T14:15:22Z",
  "deleted": true,
  "scope": "dashboard_item"
}

Retrieve annotations

Required API key scopes

annotation:read

Path parameters

  • id
    integer

    A unique integer value identifying this annotation.

  • project_id
    string

    Project ID of the project you're trying to access. To find the ID of the project, make a call to /api/projects/.

Response


Example request

GET /api/projects/:project_id/annotations/:id
export POSTHOG_PERSONAL_API_KEY=[your personal api key]
curl \
    -H "Authorization: Bearer $POSTHOG_PERSONAL_API_KEY" \
    <ph_app_host>/api/projects/:project_id/annotations/:id/

Example response

Status 200
RESPONSE
{
  "id": 0,
  "content": "string",
  "date_marker": "2019-08-24T14:15:22Z",
  "creation_type": "USR",
  "dashboard_item": 0,
  "dashboard_id": 0,
  "dashboard_name": "string",
  "insight_short_id": "string",
  "insight_name": "string",
  "insight_derived_name": "string",
  "created_by": {
    "id": 0,
    "uuid": "095be615-a8ad-4c33-8e9c-c7612fbf6c9f",
    "distinct_id": "string",
    "first_name": "string",
    "last_name": "string",
    "email": "user@example.com",
    "is_email_verified": true,
    "hedgehog_config": {
      "property1": null,
      "property2": null
    },
    "role_at_organization": "engineering"
  },
  "created_at": "2019-08-24T14:15:22Z",
  "updated_at": "2019-08-24T14:15:22Z",
  "deleted": true,
  "scope": "dashboard_item"
}

Update annotations

Required API key scopes

annotation:write

Path parameters

  • id
    integer

    A unique integer value identifying this annotation.

  • project_id
    string

    Project ID of the project you're trying to access. To find the ID of the project, make a call to /api/projects/.

Request parameters

  • content
    string
  • date_marker
    string
  • creation_type
  • dashboard_item
    integer
  • deleted
    boolean
  • scope

Response


Example request

PATCH /api/projects/:project_id/annotations/:id
export POSTHOG_PERSONAL_API_KEY=[your personal api key]
curl -X PATCH \
    -H "Authorization: Bearer $POSTHOG_PERSONAL_API_KEY" \
    <ph_app_host>/api/projects/:project_id/annotations/:id/\
	-d content="string"

Example response

Status 200
RESPONSE
{
  "id": 0,
  "content": "string",
  "date_marker": "2019-08-24T14:15:22Z",
  "creation_type": "USR",
  "dashboard_item": 0,
  "dashboard_id": 0,
  "dashboard_name": "string",
  "insight_short_id": "string",
  "insight_name": "string",
  "insight_derived_name": "string",
  "created_by": {
    "id": 0,
    "uuid": "095be615-a8ad-4c33-8e9c-c7612fbf6c9f",
    "distinct_id": "string",
    "first_name": "string",
    "last_name": "string",
    "email": "user@example.com",
    "is_email_verified": true,
    "hedgehog_config": {
      "property1": null,
      "property2": null
    },
    "role_at_organization": "engineering"
  },
  "created_at": "2019-08-24T14:15:22Z",
  "updated_at": "2019-08-24T14:15:22Z",
  "deleted": true,
  "scope": "dashboard_item"
}

Delete annotations

Hard delete of this model is not allowed. Use a patch API call to set "deleted" to true

Required API key scopes

annotation:write

Path parameters

  • id
    integer

    A unique integer value identifying this annotation.

  • project_id
    string

    Project ID of the project you're trying to access. To find the ID of the project, make a call to /api/projects/.

Example request

DELETE /api/projects/:project_id/annotations/:id
export POSTHOG_PERSONAL_API_KEY=[your personal api key]
curl  -X DELETE \
    -H "Authorization: Bearer $POSTHOG_PERSONAL_API_KEY" \
    <ph_app_host>/api/projects/:project_id/annotations/:id/

Example response

Status 405 No response body

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