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The API appears to be for getting data out - creating your custom dashboard. Just getting data from a pulled image won't provide browser data or referring data
by dpcan 17y ago
The API appears to be for getting data out - creating your custom dashboard.
Just getting data from a pulled image won't provide browser data or referring data. Javascript is unfortunately a pretty important requirement to get accurate data about visitors.
- patio11 17y agoYou are incorrect, they also have an API for data entry, which you can use to register arbitrary data from the server. (Including, I suppose, browser versions or referring URLs since those are, after all, sent in with the HTTP requests. I haven't actually implemented those since they aren't useful for my purposes.) See here for how I use the API through Rails (sans Javascript): http://www.bingocardcreator.com/articles/tracking-with-mixpanel.htm http://www.bingocardcreator.com/articles/tracking-with-mixpa...
- dpcan 17y agoIn my defense, their homepage says in exacltly these words "API TO GET DATA OUT" That being said... So you can use all the browser variables via PHP/Rails/Whatever and then use Curl (for example) to post stats to their servers? Cool. I was referring to the ability to do this by simply placing an image on your site which would require some JS, but I didn't think about it from this angle.