hoarder 0.0.1

The ultimate analytics kit for Django.

The ultimate analytics kit for Django.

Hoarder in an event tracking API for Django that supports multiple analytics backends: KISSMetrics, Google Analytics, local MongoDB.

Hoarder is for you if: - You want to use multiple web analytics tools without duplicating code for each of them - You want to be able to swap analytics packages without changing your code - You want to have a local copy of all your analytics data

Installation

1. Run pip install hoarder

2. Add ‘hoarder’ app to INSTALLED_APPS

3. Add ‘hoarder.middleware.LoggingMiddleware’ and ‘hoarder.middleware.DeduplicationMiddleware’ to MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES

4. Add ‘hoarder.context_processors.tracking’ to TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS

5. Specify the backends you want to use in HOARDER_BACKENDS settings variable

Supported backends

• hoarder.backends.LogBackend - just outputs all events to log for debug purposes

• hoarder.mongo.MongoBackend - stores all events in a local MongoDB database

• hoarder.backends.KISSMetricsBackend - sends all events to KISSMetrics

Settings

HOARDER_BACKENDS - list of enabled backends

HOARDER_MONGO_DATABASE - for Mongo backend, name of the database to use

KISSMETRICS_API_KEY - for KISSMetrics backend, the API key from your KISSMetrics account

Usage

Registering an event in view:

from hoarder import register_request_event
...
register_request_event(request, 'signed up', {'plan level' : 'Basic'})

Registering an event outside of a view:

from hoarder import register_request_event
...
register_user_event(user, 'billed', {'amount' : '49.99'})

Labeling current visitor:

from hoarder import label_visitor,
...
label_visitor(request, 'Nice person')