Export API
The Export API lets you export your project's event data.
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Authorization¶
This API uses basic authentication, using the API key and secret key for your project. Pass base64-encoded credentials in the request header like {{api-key}}:{{secret-key}}
. api-key
replaces username, and secret-key
replaces the password.
Your authorization header should look something like this:
--header 'Authorization: Basic YWhhbWwsdG9uQGFwaWdlZS5jb206bClwYXNzdzByZAo'
See Find your Amplitude Project API Credentials for help locating your credentials.
Endpoints¶
Region | Endpoint |
---|---|
Standard Server | https://amplitude.com/api/2/export |
EU Residency Server | https://analytics.eu.amplitude.com/api/2/export |
Considerations¶
- The specified date range refers to the time the event data was uploaded to Amplitude servers (see
server_upload_time
). The Export API returns events timestamped in UTC. Data is available to export at a minimum within 2 hours of when the servers received it. For example, data sent between 8 and 9 PM begins loading at 9 PM and is available via the Export API at 11 PM. Note that there is no delay in platform reporting. Only exports are delayed. - Export API isn't supported for a cross-project view because the view doesn’t own any data. To export all the data in the view, you would need to call the Export API on the underlying projects that actually ingested the data.
- Size limit is 4GB. If the size exceeds 4GB, the request returns a 400 response. In this case, choose a smaller time range to export the data. In cases where an hour's worth of data exceeds 4GB, use the Amazon S3 export.
- To export a whole day, use
T00
toT23
. For example,GET 'https://amplitude.com/api/2/export?start=20230101T00&end=20220101T23'
- The max period you can query at once is 365 days.
Example request¶
Send a GET request to https://amplitude.com/api/2/export
with two required query parameters: start date and end date.
curl --location --request GET 'https://amplitude.com/api/2/export?start=<starttime>&end=<endtime>' \
-u '{api_key}:{secret_key}'
GET /api/2/export?start=<starttime>&end=<endtime> HTTP/1.1
Host: amplitude.com
Authorization: Basic {{api-key}}:{{secret-key}} #credentials must be base64 encoded
Example: Get data for a period (click to expand)
This example exports activity data from between midnight on January 1, 2022 and midnight January 27, 2022.
curl --location --request GET 'https://amplitude.com/api/2/export?start=20220101T00&end=20220127T00' \
--header 'Authorization: Basic YWhhbWwsdG9uQGFwaWdlZS5jb206bClwYXNzdzByZAo'
GET /api/2/export?start=20220101T00&end=20220127T00 HTTP/1.1
Host: amplitude.com
Authorization: Basic YWhhbWwsdG9uQGFwaWdlZS5jb206bClwYXNzdzByZAo
Query parameters¶
Name | Description |
---|---|
start |
Required. First hour included in data series, formatted YYYYMMDDTHH. For example, '20220201T05'. |
end |
Required. Last hour included in data series, formatted YYYYMMDDTHH For example, '20220201T05'. |
Response¶
The response is a zipped archive of JSON files. Depending on data volume, there can be several files per hour. The API returns a 404 response is there is no data for the time range you requested.
Note
Events before November 12, 2014 are grouped by day, instead of by the hour.
Response schema¶
The response includes one event JSON object per line in each file, with the following schema:
{
"server_received_time": UTC ISO-8601 formatted timestamp,
"app": int,
"device_carrier": string,
"city": string,
"user_id": string,
"uuid": UUID,
"event_time": UTC ISO-8601 formatted timestamp,
"platform": string,
"os_version": string,
"amplitude_id": long,
"processed_time": UTC ISO-8601 formatted timestamp,
"version_name": string,
"ip_address": string,
"paying": boolean,
"dma": string,
"group_properties": dict,
"user_properties": dict,
"client_upload_time": UTC ISO-8601 formatted timestamp,
"$insert_id": string,
"event_type": string,
"library": string,
"amplitude_attribution_ids": string,
"device_type": string,
"start_version": string,
"location_lng": float,
"server_upload_time": UTC ISO-8601 formatted timestamp,
"event_id": int,
"location_lat": float,
"os_name": string,
"groups": dict,
"event_properties": dict,
"data": dict,
"device_id": string,
"language": string,
"country": string,
"region": string,
"session_id": long,
"device_family": string,
"sample_rate": null,
"client_event_time": UTC ISO-8601 formatted timestamp,
}
Status codes¶
Code | Message |
---|---|
200 | Success |
400 | The file size of the exported data is too large. Shorten the time ranges and try again. The limit size is 4GB. |
404 | No data available for the time range requested. |
504 | The amount of data is large causing a timeout. For large amounts of data, use the Amazon S3 destination. |