Export API

The Export API lets you export your project's event data.

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¶

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 to T23. 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

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¶

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.

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¶