Trend

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

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Required API key scopes

insight: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

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

Request parameters

  • events
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    array

    Events to filter on. One of events or actions is required.

  • actions
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    array

    Actions to filter on. One of events or actions is required.

  • properties

    Filter events by event property, person property, cohort, groups and more.

  • filter_test_accounts
    boolean

    Whether to filter out internal and test accounts. See "project settings" in your PostHog account for the filters.

  • date_from
    string
    Default: -7d

    What date to filter the results from. Can either be a date 2021-01-01, or a relative date, like -7d for last seven days, -1m for last month, mStart for start of the month or yStart for the start of the year.

  • date_to
    string
    Default: -7d

    What date to filter the results to. Can either be a date 2021-01-01, or a relative date, like -7d for last seven days, -1m for last month, mStart for start of the month or yStart for the start of the year.

  • breakdown
    string

    A property or cohort to break down on. You can select the type of the property with breakdown_type.

    • event (default): a property key
    • person: a person property key
    • cohort: an array of cohort IDs (ie [9581,5812])
  • breakdown_type
    Default: event

    Type of property to break down on.

    • event - event
    • person - person
    • cohort - cohort
    • group - group
    • session - session
    • hogql - hogql
  • display
    Default: ActionsLineGraph

    How to display the data. Will change how the data is returned.

    • ActionsLineGraph - ActionsLineGraph
    • ActionsLineGraphCumulative - ActionsLineGraphCumulative
    • ActionsTable - ActionsTable
    • ActionsPie - ActionsPie
    • ActionsBar - ActionsBar
    • ActionsBarValue - ActionsBarValue
    • WorldMap - WorldMap
    • BoldNumber - BoldNumber
  • formula
    string

    Combine the result of events or actions into a single number. For example A + B or (A-B)/B. The letters correspond to the order of the events or actions lists.

  • compare
    boolean

    For each returned result show the current period and the previous period. The result will contain compare:true and a compare_label with either current or previous.

Response


Request

POST /api/projects/:project_id/insights/trend
export POSTHOG_PERSONAL_API_KEY=[your personal api key]
curl 
    -H 'Content-Type: application/json'\
    -H "Authorization: Bearer $POSTHOG_PERSONAL_API_KEY" \
    https://app.posthog.com/api/projects/:project_id/insights/trend/\
	-d events=[{"id":"$pageview"}]

Response

Status 200
RESPONSE
{
  "is_cached": true,
  "last_refresh": "2019-08-24T14:15:22Z",
  "timezone": "UTC",
  "result": [
    {
      "data": [
        0
      ],
      "days": [
        "2019-08-24"
      ],
      "labels": [
        "string"
      ],
      "filter": {
        "events": [
          {
            "id": "string",
            "properties": [
              {
                "type": "AND",
                "values": [
                  {
                    "key": "string",
                    "value": "string",
                    "operator": "exact",
                    "type": "event"
                  }
                ]
              }
            ],
            "math": "total"
          }
        ],
        "actions": [
          {
            "id": "string",
            "properties": [
              {
                "type": "AND",
                "values": [
                  {
                    "key": "string",
                    "value": "string",
                    "operator": "exact",
                    "type": "event"
                  }
                ]
              }
            ],
            "math": "total"
          }
        ],
        "properties": {
          "type": "AND",
          "values": [
            {
              "key": "string",
              "value": "string",
              "operator": "exact",
              "type": "event"
            }
          ]
        },
        "filter_test_accounts": false,
        "date_from": "-7d",
        "date_to": "-7d"
      },
      "label": "string"
    }
  ]
}

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