Mixpanel API Client (for API version 2.0)

Ruby access to the Mixpanel web analytics tool.

Installation

gem install mixpanel_client

or if you use a Gemfile

gem 'mixpanel_client'

Usage

require 'rubygems'
require 'mixpanel_client'

config = {api_key: 'changeme', api_secret: 'changeme'}
client = Mixpanel::Client.new(config)

data = client.request('events/properties', {
  event:     'splash features',
  name:      'feature',
  values:    '["uno", "dos"]',
  type:      'unique',
  unit:      'day',
  interval:   7,
  limit:      5,
})

puts data.inspect

Parallel

require 'rubygems'
require 'mixpanel_client'

config = {api_key: 'changeme', api_secret: 'changeme', parallel: true}    
client = Mixpanel::Client.new(config)

first_request = client.request('events/properties', {
...
})

second_request = client.request('events/properties', {
...
})

third_request = client.request('events/properties', {
...
})

...

client.run_parallel_requests

puts first_request.response.handled_response
puts second_request.response.handled_response
puts third_request.response.handled_response

Development

List of rake tasks.

rake -T

Run specs.

rake spec

Run external specs.

cp config/mixpanel.template.yml config/mixpanel.yml
vi config/mixpanel.yml
rake spec:externals

Releasing Gem

Update version

vi lib/mixpanel/version.rb

Commit and push local changes

git commit -am "Some message."
git push
git status

Create tag v2.0.2 and build and push mixpanel_client-2.0.2.gem to Rubygems

rake release

Changelog

v3.1.2

Gem updates

v3.1.1

Avoid overriding the arg of client.request
Allow retrieving the request_uri of a Mixpanel request

v3.1.0

Parallel requests option.

v3.0.0

NOTE: This version breaks backwards compatibility.
Use a regular ruby hash instead of metaprogramming for mixpanel options.

v2.2.3

Added some more options.

v2.2.2

Added some more options.

v2.2.1

Added support for the raw data export API.

v2.2.0

BASE_URI is now https.
Changed funnel to funnel_id.

v2.1.0

Updated json dependency to 1.6.

v2.0.2

Added timezone to available options.
All exceptions can be caught under Mixpanel::Error.

v2.0.1

Added options used in segmentation resources.

v2.0.0

Manually tested compatibility with Mixpanel gem.

v2.0.0.beta2

Added JSON to gemspec for ruby versions less than 1.9.

v2.0.0.beta1

Reverted to namespacing via module name because it's a better practice. I.e. Use Mixpanel::Client instead of MixpanelClient.
Added 'values' as an optional parameter
gem install mixpanel_client --pre

v1.0.1

Minor housekeeping and organizing
Refactored specs

v1.0.0

Changed "Mixpanel" class name to "MixpanelClient" to prevent naming collision in other libraries. a710a84e8ba4b6f018b7

Collaborators and Maintainers

Feel free to add your name and link here.

Keolo Keagy (Author)
Hiroshige Umino
Gabor Ratky
Bill DeRusha
Jason Logsdon
James R
Mike Ferrier
Grzegorz Forysinski
Nathan Chong
Paul McMahon
Chad Etzel