Trend

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

Create

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
  • compare
    boolean

    To compare or not

  • compare_to
    string

    What to compare to

  • 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.

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 $POSTHOG_PERSONAL_API_KEY" \
<ph_app_host>/api/projects/:project_id/insights/trend/\
-d events=[{"id":"$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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