PostHog web_analytics API

openapi: 3.0.3
info:
  title: PostHog actions web_analytics API
  version: 1.0.0
  description: ''
tags:
- name: web_analytics
paths:
  /api/environments/{project_id}/web_analytics/weekly_digest/:
    get:
      operationId: web_analytics_weekly_digest
      description: 'Summarizes a project''s web analytics over a lookback window (default 7 days): unique visitors, pageviews, sessions, bounce rate, and average session duration with period-over-period comparisons, plus the top 5 pages, top 5 traffic sources, and goal conversions.'
      summary: Summarize web analytics
      parameters:
      - in: query
        name: compare
        schema:
          type: boolean
          default: true
        description: When true (default), include period-over-period change for each metric comparing against the prior equal-length period. Set to false to skip the comparison query (faster).
      - in: query
        name: days
        schema:
          type: integer
          default: 7
        description: Lookback window in days (1–90). Defaults to 7.
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/ProjectIdPath'
      tags:
      - web_analytics
      security:
      - PersonalAPIKeyAuth:
        - web_analytics:read
      responses:
        '200':
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/WeeklyDigestResponse'
          description: ''
      x-explicit-tags:
      - web_analytics
components:
  schemas:
    WeeklyDigestResponse:
      type: object
      properties:
        visitors:
          allOf:
          - $ref: '#/components/schemas/NumericMetric'
          description: Unique visitors.
        pageviews:
          allOf:
          - $ref: '#/components/schemas/NumericMetric'
          description: Total pageviews.
        sessions:
          allOf:
          - $ref: '#/components/schemas/NumericMetric'
          description: Total sessions.
        bounce_rate:
          allOf:
          - $ref: '#/components/schemas/NumericMetric'
          description: Bounce rate (0–100).
        avg_session_duration:
          allOf:
          - $ref: '#/components/schemas/DurationMetric'
          description: Average session duration.
        top_pages:
          type: array
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/TopPage'
          description: Top 5 pages by unique visitors.
        top_sources:
          type: array
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/TopSource'
          description: Top 5 traffic sources by unique visitors.
        goals:
          type: array
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Goal'
          description: Goal conversions.
        dashboard_url:
          type: string
          format: uri
          description: Link to the Web analytics dashboard for this project.
      required:
      - avg_session_duration
      - bounce_rate
      - dashboard_url
      - goals
      - pageviews
      - sessions
      - top_pages
      - top_sources
      - visitors
    NumericMetric:
      type: object
      properties:
        current:
          type: number
          format: double
          description: Value for the most recent period.
        previous:
          type: number
          format: double
          nullable: true
          description: Value for the prior period, if available.
        change:
          allOf:
          - $ref: '#/components/schemas/WoWChange'
          nullable: true
          description: Period-over-period change, null when not meaningful.
      required:
      - change
      - current
      - previous
    DurationMetric:
      type: object
      properties:
        current:
          type: string
          description: Human-readable duration, e.g. '2m 34s'.
        previous:
          type: string
          nullable: true
          description: Prior-period duration, e.g. '2m 10s'.
        change:
          allOf:
          - $ref: '#/components/schemas/WoWChange'
          nullable: true
          description: Period-over-period change, null when not meaningful.
      required:
      - change
      - current
      - previous
    Goal:
      type: object
      properties:
        name:
          type: string
          description: Goal name (action name).
        conversions:
          type: integer
          description: Total conversions in the period.
        change:
          allOf:
          - $ref: '#/components/schemas/WoWChange'
          nullable: true
          description: Period-over-period change in conversions, null when not meaningful.
      required:
      - change
      - conversions
      - name
    TopSource:
      type: object
      properties:
        name:
          type: string
          description: Initial referring domain.
        visitors:
          type: integer
          description: Unique visitors from this source.
        change:
          allOf:
          - $ref: '#/components/schemas/WoWChange'
          nullable: true
          description: Period-over-period change in visitors, null when not meaningful.
      required:
      - change
      - name
      - visitors
    TopPage:
      type: object
      properties:
        host:
          type: string
          description: Host for the page, if recorded.
        path:
          type: string
          description: URL path.
        visitors:
          type: integer
          description: Unique visitors in the period.
        change:
          allOf:
          - $ref: '#/components/schemas/WoWChange'
          nullable: true
          description: Period-over-period change in visitors, null when not meaningful.
      required:
      - change
      - host
      - path
      - visitors
    WoWChange:
      type: object
      properties:
        percent:
          type: integer
          description: Absolute percentage change, rounded to nearest integer.
        direction:
          allOf:
          - $ref: '#/components/schemas/DirectionEnum'
          description: 'Direction of the change relative to the prior period.


            * `Up` - Up

            * `Down` - Down'
        color:
          type: string
          description: Hex color indicating whether the change is a positive or negative signal.
        text:
          type: string
          description: Short label, e.g. 'Up 12%'.
        long_text:
          type: string
          description: Verbose label, e.g. 'Up 12% from prior period'.
      required:
      - color
      - direction
      - long_text
      - percent
      - text
    DirectionEnum:
      enum:
      - Up
      - Down
      type: string
      description: '* `Up` - Up

        * `Down` - Down'
  parameters:
    ProjectIdPath:
      in: path
      name: project_id
      required: true
      schema:
        type: string
      description: Project ID of the project you're trying to access. To find the ID of the project, make a call to /api/projects/.
  securitySchemes:
    PersonalAPIKeyAuth:
      type: http
      scheme: bearer
x-tagGroups:
- name: All endpoints
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