Mixpanel Batch Source
Introduction
Mixpanel is a business analytics service and tracks user interactions with web and mobile applications and provides tools for targeted communication with them. Its tool set contains in-app A/B tests and user survey forms. Data collected is used to build custom reports and measure user engagement and retention. This plugin will extract raw event-level data from Mixpanel that can be further transformed and enriched with other data sources.
Use case(s)
Retrieve raw events data from Mixpanel service
User Storie(s)
As a data pipeline developer, I should be able to retrieve raw Mixpanel events data for specified start and end date so that I can enrich and transform raw data for further analysis
As a data pipeline developer, I should be able to specify API secret to authenticate the export request
As a data pipeline developer, I should be able to see all the errors while fetching the raw events data from Mixpanel so that I can review and fix those export issues
Plugin Type
Configuration
User Facing Name | Type | Description | Default value | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
API Secret | string | Mixpanel API secret |
| https://developer.mixpanel.com/docs/exporting-raw-data#section-required-parameter |
From date | string | Start date for reports data |
| YYYY-MM-DD format |
To date | string | End date for reports data |
| YYYY-MM-DD format |
Events | multi-select | Comma separated list of events you would like to get data on |
| Optional |
Filter | string | Expression to filter events by |
| Optional |
Design / Implementation Tips
Mixpanel only supports batch source so there will not be any streaming source for Mixpanel
Data export API always returns data in JSON format.
API details provide best practices around API usage
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Sample Pipeline
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References
Mixpanel Data Export API: https://developer.mixpanel.com/docs/exporting-raw-data
Client libraries: https://developer.mixpanel.com/docs/data-export-api#section-client-libraries