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Group Identify API

Feature availability

This feature is available in accounts with a Growth or Enterprise plan with the Accounts add-on.

Use the Group Identify API to set or update properties of particular groups.

The Amplitude Accounts add-on makes analytical functionality available at the group level. A group is an object that a set of users might belong to, like a company of customers, team of users, or a playlist with listeners. Groups can help you understand how accounts interact with your product, instead of how individual users interact.

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Authorization

This API doesn't use authorization, but uses your API key. Pass your API key in the URL of the request like https://api2.amplitude.com/endpoint?api_key={{api-key}}.

See Find your Amplitude Project API Credentials for help locating your credentials.

Endpoints

Region Endpoint
Standard Server https://api2.amplitude.com/groupidentify
EU Residency Server https://api.eu.amplitude.com/groupidentify

Considerations

  • Updates affect only future events, and don't update historical events.
  • You can track up to 5 unique group types and 10 total groups per event.
  • The maximum number of group identifies per request is 1024.
  • The maximum number of group properties per request is 1024.
  • The maximum byte size/per request is 1 mb.

Example request

Set or update group properties.

https://api2.amplitude.com/groupidentify

POST /groupidentify?api_key={{api-key}}&identification={"group_properties":{"org csm":"Lucas","org plan":"Enterprise","org owner":"Luis"},"group_value":"1234","group_type":"org id"} HTTP/1.1
Host: api2.amplitude.com

Required parameters

Name
 Description
api_key Your project API key.
identification Either a single JSON identification object or an array of JSON objects, each of which represents one identification.

Identification parameter keys

Key
 Description Example
group_type String. Group type. "org name", "org id"
group_value String. One specific value of the group_type.
"group_type":"org id","group_value":"12345678" or "group_type":"account name","group_value":"Acme Corp"
group_properties String. A dictionary of key-value pairs that represent data tied to the group. Each distinct value appears as a group segment on the Amplitude dashboard.
You can store property values in an array, and date values are transformed into string values. See the next table for supported operations.		 {"arr": "10000", "cs": \["Justin", "Ben"\], "renewal_date": “01/01/2018" }

group_properties supports these operations:

Operation
 Description
$set Set the value of a property.
$setOnce Set the value of a property, prevent overriding the property value.
$add Add a numeric value to a numeric property.
$append and $prepend Append and prepend the value to a group property array.
$unset Remove a property.

Status codes

Code Message
200 Success
400 Bad request. See the error message for specifics.