Event definitions

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List all event definitions

Required API key scopes

event_definition:read

Query parameters

  • exclude_hidden
    boolean
  • exclude_stale
    boolean
  • limit
    integer
  • offset
    integer

Response


Example request

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

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": "497f6eca-6276-4993-bfeb-53cbbbba6f08",
      "name": "string",
      "owner": 0,
      "description": "string",
      "tags": [
        null
      ],
      "created_at": "2019-08-24T14:15:22Z",
      "updated_at": "2019-08-24T14:15:22Z",
      "updated_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": {},
        "role_at_organization": "engineering"
      },
      "last_seen_at": "2019-08-24T14:15:22Z",
      "last_updated_at": "2019-08-24T14:15:22Z",
      "verified": true,
      "verified_at": "2019-08-24T14:15:22Z",
      "verified_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": {},
        "role_at_organization": "engineering"
      },
      "hidden": true,
      "enforcement_mode": "allow",
      "primary_property": "string",
      "is_action": true,
      "action_id": 0,
      "is_calculating": true,
      "last_calculated_at": "2019-08-24T14:15:22Z",
      "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": {},
        "role_at_organization": "engineering"
      },
      "post_to_slack": false,
      "default_columns": [
        "string"
      ],
      "media_preview_urls": [
        "string"
      ]
    }
  ]
}

Create event definitions

Required API key scopes

event_definition:write

Request parameters

  • name
    string
  • owner
    integernull
  • description
    stringnull
  • tags
    array
  • verified
    boolean
  • hidden
    booleannull
  • enforcement_mode
  • primary_property
    stringnull
  • post_to_slack
    boolean
    Default: false
  • default_columns
    array

Response


Example request

POST /api/projects/:project_id/event_definitions
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/event_definitions/\
	-d name="string"

Example response

Status 201
RESPONSE
{
  "id": "497f6eca-6276-4993-bfeb-53cbbbba6f08",
  "name": "string",
  "owner": 0,
  "description": "string",
  "tags": [
    null
  ],
  "created_at": "2019-08-24T14:15:22Z",
  "updated_at": "2019-08-24T14:15:22Z",
  "updated_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": {},
    "role_at_organization": "engineering"
  },
  "last_seen_at": "2019-08-24T14:15:22Z",
  "last_updated_at": "2019-08-24T14:15:22Z",
  "verified": true,
  "verified_at": "2019-08-24T14:15:22Z",
  "verified_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": {},
    "role_at_organization": "engineering"
  },
  "hidden": true,
  "enforcement_mode": "allow",
  "primary_property": "string",
  "is_action": true,
  "action_id": 0,
  "is_calculating": true,
  "last_calculated_at": "2019-08-24T14:15:22Z",
  "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": {},
    "role_at_organization": "engineering"
  },
  "post_to_slack": false,
  "default_columns": [
    "string"
  ],
  "media_preview_urls": [
    "string"
  ]
}

Retrieve event definitions

Required API key scopes

event_definition:read

Path parameters

  • id
    string

Response


Example request

GET /api/projects/:project_id/event_definitions/: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/event_definitions/:id/

Example response

Status 200
RESPONSE
{
  "id": "497f6eca-6276-4993-bfeb-53cbbbba6f08",
  "name": "string",
  "owner": 0,
  "description": "string",
  "tags": [
    null
  ],
  "created_at": "2019-08-24T14:15:22Z",
  "updated_at": "2019-08-24T14:15:22Z",
  "updated_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": {},
    "role_at_organization": "engineering"
  },
  "last_seen_at": "2019-08-24T14:15:22Z",
  "last_updated_at": "2019-08-24T14:15:22Z",
  "verified": true,
  "verified_at": "2019-08-24T14:15:22Z",
  "verified_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": {},
    "role_at_organization": "engineering"
  },
  "hidden": true,
  "enforcement_mode": "allow",
  "primary_property": "string",
  "is_action": true,
  "action_id": 0,
  "is_calculating": true,
  "last_calculated_at": "2019-08-24T14:15:22Z",
  "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": {},
    "role_at_organization": "engineering"
  },
  "post_to_slack": false,
  "default_columns": [
    "string"
  ],
  "media_preview_urls": [
    "string"
  ]
}

Update event definitions

Required API key scopes

event_definition:write

Path parameters

  • id
    string

Request parameters

  • name
    string
  • owner
    integernull
  • description
    stringnull
  • tags
    array
  • verified
    boolean
  • hidden
    booleannull
  • enforcement_mode
  • primary_property
    stringnull
  • post_to_slack
    boolean
    Default: false
  • default_columns
    array

Response


Example request

PATCH /api/projects/:project_id/event_definitions/: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/event_definitions/:id/\
	-d name="string"

Example response

Status 200
RESPONSE
{
  "id": "497f6eca-6276-4993-bfeb-53cbbbba6f08",
  "name": "string",
  "owner": 0,
  "description": "string",
  "tags": [
    null
  ],
  "created_at": "2019-08-24T14:15:22Z",
  "updated_at": "2019-08-24T14:15:22Z",
  "updated_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": {},
    "role_at_organization": "engineering"
  },
  "last_seen_at": "2019-08-24T14:15:22Z",
  "last_updated_at": "2019-08-24T14:15:22Z",
  "verified": true,
  "verified_at": "2019-08-24T14:15:22Z",
  "verified_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": {},
    "role_at_organization": "engineering"
  },
  "hidden": true,
  "enforcement_mode": "allow",
  "primary_property": "string",
  "is_action": true,
  "action_id": 0,
  "is_calculating": true,
  "last_calculated_at": "2019-08-24T14:15:22Z",
  "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": {},
    "role_at_organization": "engineering"
  },
  "post_to_slack": false,
  "default_columns": [
    "string"
  ],
  "media_preview_urls": [
    "string"
  ]
}

Delete event definitions

Required API key scopes

event_definition:write

Path parameters

  • id
    string

Example request

DELETE /api/projects/:project_id/event_definitions/: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/event_definitions/:id/

Example response

Status 204 No response body

Retrieve event definitions metrics

Path parameters

  • id
    string

Example request

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

Example response

Status 200 No response body

Create event definitions bulk update tags

Bulk update tags on multiple objects.

PAT access: this action has no required_scopes= on the decorator — inheriting viewsets must add "bulk_update_tags" to their scope_object_write_actions list to accept personal API keys. Without that opt-in, APIScopePermission rejects PAT requests with "This action does not support personal API key access". Done per-viewset so granting <scope>:write for one resource doesn't leak access to sibling resources that share this mixin.

Accepts:

  • {"ids": [...], "action": "add"|"remove"|"set", "tags": ["tag1", "tag2"]}

Actions:

  • "add": Add tags to existing tags on each object
  • "remove": Remove specific tags from each object
  • "set": Replace all tags on each object with the provided list

Request parameters

  • ids
    array
  • action
  • tags
    array

Response


Example request

POST /api/projects/:project_id/event_definitions/bulk_update_tags
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/event_definitions/bulk_update_tags/\
	-d ids="array",\
	-d action=undefined,\
	-d tags="array"

Example response

Status 200
RESPONSE
{
  "updated": [
    {
      "id": 0,
      "tags": [
        "string"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "skipped": [
    {
      "id": 0,
      "reason": "string"
    }
  ]
}

Retrieve event definitions by name

Get event definition by exact name

Required API key scopes

event_definition:read

Query parameters

  • name
    string

Response


Example request

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

Example response

Status 200
RESPONSE
{
  "id": "497f6eca-6276-4993-bfeb-53cbbbba6f08",
  "name": "string",
  "created_at": "2019-08-24T14:15:22Z",
  "last_seen_at": "2019-08-24T14:15:22Z",
  "last_updated_at": "2019-08-24T14:15:22Z",
  "tags": [
    null
  ],
  "enforcement_mode": "allow",
  "primary_property": "string",
  "is_action": true,
  "action_id": 0,
  "is_calculating": true,
  "last_calculated_at": "2019-08-24T14:15:22Z",
  "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": {},
    "role_at_organization": "engineering"
  },
  "post_to_slack": false
}

Retrieve event definitions golang

Required API key scopes

event_definition:read

Example request

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

Example response

Status 200 No response body

Retrieve event definitions primary properties

Resolve team-configured primary properties for event definitions.

The response only contains entries where a non-null primary_property is set on the EventDefinition. Callers should fall back to the core taxonomy defaults client-side for names not present in the response.

Required API key scopes

event_definition:read

Query parameters

  • names
    array

Response


Example request

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

Example response

Status 200
RESPONSE
{
  "primary_properties": {
    "property1": "string",
    "property2": "string"
  }
}

Retrieve event definitions python

Required API key scopes

event_definition:read

Example request

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

Example response

Status 200 No response body

Retrieve event definitions typescript

Required API key scopes

event_definition:read

Example request

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

Example response

Status 200 No response body

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