Insights-3

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Endpoints

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Create insights bulk update tags

Bulk update tags on multiple objects.

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

Query parameters

  • format
    string
    One of: "csv""json"

Request parameters

  • ids
    array
  • action
  • tags
    array

Response


Example request

POST /api/projects/:project_id/insights/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/insights/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"
}
]
}

Create insights cancel

DRF ViewSet mixin that gates coalesced responses behind permission checks.

The QueryCoalescingMiddleware attaches cached response data to request.META["_coalesced_response"] for followers. This mixin runs DRF's initial() (auth + permissions + throttling) before returning the cached response, ensuring the request is authorized.

Query parameters

  • format
    string
    One of: "csv""json"

Request parameters

  • name
    stringnull
  • derived_name
    stringnull
  • query
  • order
    integernull
  • deleted
    boolean
  • dashboards
    array
  • description
    stringnull
  • tags
    array
  • favorited
    boolean
  • _create_in_folder
    string

Example request

POST /api/projects/:project_id/insights/cancel
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/insights/cancel/\
-d name=["string","null"]

Example response

Status 200 No response body

Create insights generate metadata

Generate an AI-suggested name and description for an insight based on its query configuration.

Required API key scopes

insight:write

Query parameters

  • format
    string
    One of: "csv""json"

Request parameters

  • name
    stringnull
  • derived_name
    stringnull
  • query
  • order
    integernull
  • deleted
    boolean
  • dashboards
    array
  • description
    stringnull
  • tags
    array
  • favorited
    boolean
  • _create_in_folder
    string

Example request

POST /api/projects/:project_id/insights/generate_metadata
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/insights/generate_metadata/\
-d name=["string","null"]

Example response

Status 200 No response body

Retrieve insights my last viewed

Returns basic details about the last 5 insights viewed by this user. Most recently viewed first.

Query parameters

  • format
    string
    One of: "csv""json"

Example request

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

Example response

Status 200 No response body


Create insights viewed

Update insight view timestamps. Expects: {"insight_ids": [1, 2, 3, ...]}

Required API key scopes

insight:read

Query parameters

  • format
    string
    One of: "csv""json"

Request parameters

  • name
    stringnull
  • derived_name
    stringnull
  • query
  • order
    integernull
  • deleted
    boolean
  • dashboards
    array
  • description
    stringnull
  • tags
    array
  • favorited
    boolean
  • _create_in_folder
    string

Example request

POST /api/projects/:project_id/insights/viewed
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/insights/viewed/\
-d name=["string","null"]

Example response

Status 200 No response body

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