Web Auto-Collection

The Web Auto-Collector is now part of the keen-tracking.js package. It will automatically collect the following events with data rich properties like url, referrer, geo-location, and date-time from your website or web app.

Install

Follow the install instructions

To learn more about how you can use keen-tracking.js for custom event tracking check out keen-tracking.js.

Please note the Web Auto-Collector currently only supports modern browsers, including:

  • Chrome 8+
  • Android Browser 3+
  • Chrome for Android 53+
  • Safari 9.1+
  • iOS Safari 5.1+
  • Firefox 47+
  • Opera 15+
  • Internet Explorer 10+

Pre-made Dashboard

If you are using the Auto-Collector, you can take advantage of this dashboard that we have created for you:

Example Dashboard GIF

This dashboard is built using the existing event data models, so you don’t have to! You can see a live example of the dashboard here.

You just need to replace the PROJECT_ID and WRITE_KEY with your own Project ID and Write Key. You can find more info on how to get started here.

Data Models

Data Enrichment addons used

This addons array property will not show up in your event data, but is required to be sent in with the event body to the Keen API to let Keen know which data enrichment addons you want to use. This array of addons is sent with every tracking call form the AutoCollector and populates several the event properties listed out in the events below. Learn more about our addons here: https://keen.io/docs/api/#data-enrichment

"addons": [
  {
    "name": "keen:ip_to_geo",
    "input": {
      "ip": "ip_address"
    },
    "output" : "geo"
  },
  {
    "name": "keen:ua_parser",
    "input": {
      "ua_string": "user_agent"
    },
    "output": "tech"
  },
  {
    "name": "keen:url_parser",
    "input": {
      "url": "url.full"
    },
    "output": "url.info"
  },
  {
    "name": "keen:url_parser",
    "input": {
      "url": "referrer.full"
    },
    "output": "referrer.info"
  },
  {
    "name": "keen:date_time_parser",
    "input": {
      "date_time": "keen.timestamp"
    },
    "output": "time.utc"
  },
  {
    "name": "keen:date_time_parser",
    "input": {
      "date_time": "local_time_full"
    },
    "output": "time.local"
  }
]

pageviews event collection

{
  "pageviews": {
    "keen": {
      "timestamp": "2016-10-31T23:15:31.622Z",
      "created_at": "2016-10-31T23:15:31.622Z",
      "id": "5817d09336bca4185823a919"
    }
  },
  "geo": { // Generated automatically by the "IP to Geo" data enrichment addon
    "province": "California",
    "city": "San Francisco",
    "country": "United States",
    "postal_code": "94109",
    "country_code": "US",
    "continent": "North America"
  },
  "tracked_by": "keen-tracking-1.4.2",
  "local_time_full": "2016-10-31T23:15:32.807Z",
  "time": {
    "utc": { // Generated automatically by the "Datetime parser" data enrichment addon
      "millisecond": 913,
      "day_of_week_string": "Monday",
      "hour": 23,
      "timezone_offset": 0,
      "day_of_month": 31,
      "day_of_week": 1,
      "month": 10,
      "second": 32,
      "week": 44,
      "year": 2016,
      "minute": 15
    },
    "local": { // Generated automatically by the "Datetime parser" data enrichment addon
      "millisecond": 807,
      "day_of_week_string": "Monday",
      "hour": 23,
      "timezone_offset": 0,
      "day_of_month": 31,
      "day_of_week": 1,
      "month": 10,
      "second": 32,
      "week": 44,
      "year": 2016,
      "minute": 15
    }
  },
  "ip_address":  "173.247.198.26", // Generated using a Keen "dynamic placeholder": "${keen.ip}". Learn more about dynamic placeholders here: https://keen.io/docs/api/#dynamic-placeholders
  "user_agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_12_0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/53.0.2785.143 Safari/537.36", // Generated using a Keen "dynamic placeholder": "${keen.user_agent}"
  "url": {
    "full": "https://keen.io/platform?utm_source=producthunt&type=bottom",
    "info": { // Generated automatically by the "URL parser" data enrichment addon
      "query_string": {
        "utm_source": "producthunt",
        "type": "bottom"
      },
      "path": "/platform",
      "domain": "keen.io",
      "protocol": "https"
    },
  },
  "referrer": {
    "full": "https://keen.io/platform?utm_source=producthunt&type=bottom",
    "info": { // Generated automatically by the "URL parser data enrichment addon
      "query_string": {
        "utm_source": "producthunt",
        "type": "bottom"
      },
      "path": "/platform",
      "domain": "keen.io",
      "protocol": "https"
    },
  },
  "user": {
    "uuid": "70a2374e-3a2b-4dcd-891d-77cfe6651934"
  },
  "page": {
    "title": "Platform | Keen "
    "description": "Keen is a set of powerful APIs that allow you to collect, analyze, and visualize events from anything connected to the internet."
  },
  "tech": { // Generated automatically by the "User Agent parser" data enrichment addon
    "device": {
      "family": "Other"
    },
    "os": {
      "major": "10",
      "patch_minor": null,
      "minor": "11",
      "family": "Mac OS X",
      "patch": "5"
    },
    "browser": {
      "major": "54",
      "minor": "0",
      "family": "Chrome",
      "patch": "2840"
    },
    "profile": {
      "cookies": true,
      "name": "Netscape",
      "language": "en-US",
      "screen": {
        "orientation": {
          "type": "landscape",
          "angle": 0
        },
        "width": 1280,
        "availHeight": 709,
        "height": 800,
        "availWidth": 1280,
        "colorDepth": 24,
        "pixelDepth": 24
      },
      "platform": "MacIntel",
      "window": {
        "width": 1272,
        "ratio": {
          "width": 0.99,
          "height": 0.9
        },
        "scrollHeight": 1156,
        "height": 635
      },
      "version": "5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_11_5) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/54.0.2840.71 Safari/537.36",
      "online": true,
      "useragent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_11_5) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/54.0.2840.71 Safari/537.36",
      "codeName": "Mozilla"
    }
  }
}

clicks event collection

{
  "clicks": {
    "keen": {
      "timestamp": "2016-10-31T23:15:31.622Z",
      "created_at": "2016-10-31T23:15:31.622Z",
      "id": "5817d09336bca4185823a919"
    }
  },
  "geo": { // Generated automatically by the "IP to Geo" data enrichment addon
    "province": "California",
    "city": "San Francisco",
    "country": "United States",
    "postal_code": "94109",
    "country_code": "US",
    "continent": "North America"
  },
  "tracked_by": "keen-tracking-1.4.2",
  "local_time_full": "2016-10-31T23:15:32.807Z",
  "time": {
    "utc": { // Generated automatically by the "Datetime parser" data enrichment addon
      "millisecond": 913,
      "day_of_week_string": "Monday",
      "hour": 23,
      "timezone_offset": 0,
      "day_of_month": 31,
      "day_of_week": 1,
      "month": 10,
      "second": 32,
      "week": 44,
      "year": 2016,
      "minute": 15
    },
    "local": { // Generated automatically by the "Datetime parser" data enrichment addon
      "millisecond": 807,
      "day_of_week_string": "Monday",
      "hour": 23,
      "timezone_offset": 0,
      "day_of_month": 31,
      "day_of_week": 1,
      "month": 10,
      "second": 32,
      "week": 44,
      "year": 2016,
      "minute": 15
    }
  },
  "ip_address":  "173.247.198.26", // Generated using a Keen "dynamic placeholder": "${keen.ip}". Learn more about dynamic placeholders here: https://keen.io/docs/api/#dynamic-placeholders
  "user_agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_12_0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/53.0.2785.143 Safari/537.36", // Generated using a Keen "dynamic placeholder": "${keen.user_agent}"
  "url": {
    "full": "https://keen.io/platform?utm_source=producthunt&type=bottom",
    "info": { // Generated automatically by the "URL parser" data enrichment addon
      "query_string": {
        "utm_source": "producthunt",
        "type": "bottom"
      },
      "path": "/platform",
      "domain": "keen.io",
      "protocol": "https"
    },
  },
  "referrer": {
    "full": "https://keen.io/platform?utm_source=producthunt&type=bottom",
    "info": { // Generated automatically by the "URL parser" data enrichment addon
      "query_string": {
        "utm_source": "producthunt",
        "type": "bottom"
      },
      "path": "/platform",
      "domain": "keen.io",
      "protocol": "https"
    },
  },
  "user": {
    "uuid": "70a2374e-3a2b-4dcd-891d-77cfe6651934"
  },
  "page": {
    "title": "Platform | Keen"
    "description": "Keen is a set of powerful APIs that allow you to collect, analyze, and visualize events from anything connected to the internet."
  },
  "tech": { // Generated automatically by the "User Agent parser" data enrichment addon
    "device": {
      "family": "Other"
    },
    "os": {
      "major": "10",
      "patch_minor": null,
      "minor": "11",
      "family": "Mac OS X",
      "patch": "5"
    },
    "browser": {
      "major": "54",
      "minor": "0",
      "family": "Chrome",
      "patch": "2840"
    },
    "profile": {
      "cookies": true,
      "name": "Netscape",
      "language": "en-US",
      "screen": {
        "orientation": {
          "type": "landscape",
          "angle": 0
        },
        "width": 1280,
        "availHeight": 709,
        "height": 800,
        "availWidth": 1280,
        "colorDepth": 24,
        "pixelDepth": 24
      },
      "platform": "MacIntel",
      "window": {
        "width": 1272,
        "ratio": {
          "width": 0.99,
          "height": 0.9
        },
        "scrollHeight": 1156,
        "height": 635
      },
      "version": "5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_11_5) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/54.0.2840.71 Safari/537.36",
      "online": true,
      "useragent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_11_5) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/54.0.2840.71 Safari/537.36",
      "codeName": "Mozilla"
    }
  },
  "element": {
    "node_name": "A",
    "id": "main-cta",
    "class": "cta",
    "text": "Learn More",
    "href": "https://keen.io/plans/",
    "selector": "body > div:eq(0) > div:eq(1) > div:eq(0) > a",
    "x_position": 191,
    "y_position": 970
  }
}

form_submissions event collection

{
  "form_submissions": {
    "keen": {
      "timestamp": "2016-10-31T23:15:31.622Z",
      "created_at": "2016-10-31T23:15:31.622Z",
      "id": "5817d09336bca4185823a919"
    }
  },
  "geo": { // Generated automatically by the "IP to Geo" data enrichment addon
    "province": "California",
    "city": "San Francisco",
    "country": "United States",
    "postal_code": "94109",
    "country_code": "US",
    "continent": "North America"
  },
  "tracked_by": "keen-tracking-1.4.2",
  "local_time_full": "2016-10-31T23:15:32.807Z",
  "time": {
    "utc": { // Generated automatically by the "Datetime parser" data enrichment addon
      "millisecond": 913,
      "day_of_week_string": "Monday",
      "hour": 23,
      "timezone_offset": 0,
      "day_of_month": 31,
      "day_of_week": 1,
      "month": 10,
      "second": 32,
      "week": 44,
      "year": 2016,
      "minute": 15
    },
    "local": { // Generated automatically by the "Datetime parser" data enrichment addon
      "millisecond": 807,
      "day_of_week_string": "Monday",
      "hour": 23,
      "timezone_offset": 0,
      "day_of_month": 31,
      "day_of_week": 1,
      "month": 10,
      "second": 32,
      "week": 44,
      "year": 2016,
      "minute": 15
    }
  },
  "ip_address":  "173.247.198.26", // Generated using a Keen "dynamic placeholder": "${keen.ip}". Learn more about dynamic placeholders here: https://keen.io/docs/api/#dynamic-placeholders
  "user_agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_12_0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/53.0.2785.143 Safari/537.36", // Generated using a Keen "dynamic placeholder": "${keen.user_agent}"
  "url": {
    "full": "https://keen.io/platform?utm_source=producthunt&type=bottom",
    "info": { // Generated automatically by the "URL parser" data enrichment addon
      "query_string": {
        "utm_source": "producthunt",
        "type": "bottom"
      },
      "path": "/platform",
      "domain": "keen.io",
      "protocol": "https"
    },
  },
  "referrer": {
    "full": "https://keen.io/platform?utm_source=producthunt&type=bottom",
    "info": { // Generated automatically by the "URL parser" data enrichment addon
      "query_string": {
        "utm_source": "producthunt",
        "type": "bottom"
      },
      "path": "/platform",
      "domain": "keen.io",
      "protocol": "https"
    },
  },
  "user": {
    "uuid": "70a2374e-3a2b-4dcd-891d-77cfe6651934"
  },
  "page": {
    "title": "Platform | Keen"
    "description": "Keen is a set of powerful APIs that allow you to collect, analyze, and visualize events from anything connected to the internet."
  },
  "tech": { // Generated automatically by the "User Agent parser" data enrichment addon
    "device": {
      "family": "Other"
    },
    "os": {
      "major": "10",
      "patch_minor": null,
      "minor": "11",
      "family": "Mac OS X",
      "patch": "5"
    },
    "browser": {
      "major": "54",
      "minor": "0",
      "family": "Chrome",
      "patch": "2840"
    },
    "profile": {
      "cookies": true,
      "name": "Netscape",
      "language": "en-US",
      "screen": {
        "orientation": {
          "type": "landscape",
          "angle": 0
        },
        "width": 1280,
        "availHeight": 709,
        "height": 800,
        "availWidth": 1280,
        "colorDepth": 24,
        "pixelDepth": 24
      },
      "platform": "MacIntel",
      "window": {
        "width": 1272,
        "ratio": {
          "width": 0.99,
          "height": 0.9
        },
        "scrollHeight": 1156,
        "height": 635
      },
      "version": "5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_11_5) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/54.0.2840.71 Safari/537.36",
      "online": true,
      "useragent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_11_5) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/54.0.2840.71 Safari/537.36",
      "codeName": "Mozilla"
    }
  },
  "element": {
    "element": {
      "id": "signup-form",
      "selector": "body > div:eq(2) > div:eq(1) > div:eq(1) > main > form"
      "y_position": 878,
      "x_position": 668
  },
  "form": {
    "action": "https://keen.io/signup",
    "fields": {
      "email": "erickanderson@keen.io",
      "name": "Eric Anderson"
    },
    "method": "post"
    }
  }
}