Create Connector

post https://mixpanel.com/api/app/projects/{projectId}/connectors

Cloud provider-independent params

connector_type (string enum) : “s3Import”, “gcsImport”
compression (string enum) : “none”, “gzip”
data_format (string enum) : “mixpanel_event”, “mixpanel_group”, “mixpanel_people”, "remap_event", "remap_people", "remap_group"
this is how we know which type of data to process. Please check Sample Data for examples for each data_format

Cloud provider-specific params

s3/gcs_bucket (string) : name of bucket
s3/gcs_prefix (string) : prefix or directory path of files to be imported. Use “” (empty string) to import all contents of the bucket. For more details on prefix, please check Cloud Import FAQ
s3_role (string) : s3 IAM (Please refer to Configuring Access And Permissions
s3_region (string) : region of the bucket. Please refer to S3 Endpoint and refer to column Region for accepted values

Template for each bucket type

{
    "connector_type": “gcsImport”,
    "connector_properties": {
        "gcs_bucket": "sample-data",
        "gcs_prefix": "cloudimport/event",
    },
    "category_properties": {
        "data_format": "mixpanel_event",
        "compression": "none"
    }
}

{
    "connector_type": “s3Import”,
    "connector_properties": {
        "s3_bucket": "sample-data",
        "s3_prefix": "cloudimport/event",
        "s3_region": "us",
        “s3_role”: “arn:aws:iam::485438090326:role/test-mixpanel”,
    },
    "category_properties": {
        "data_format": "mixpanel_event",
        "compression": "none"
    }
}

curl -X POST https://mixpanel.com/api/app/projects/{PROJECT_ID}/connectors/ --user "{SVC_ACCOUNT}:{SECRET}" --data '{"connector_type":"gcsImport",  "connector_properties": { "gcs_bucket": "sample-dataset", "gcs_prefix": "cloudimport/event","gcs_region": "us"}, "category_properties": { "data_format": "mixpanel_event", "compression": "none"}}'

{
    "status": "ok",
    "results": {
        "connector_id": "232f40cc-7ccc-4da3-b9c3-d8c1d14142c6",
        "label": "",
        "connector_type": "gcsImport",
        "connector_properties": {
            "gcs_bucket": "sample-data",
            "gcs_prefix": "cloudimport/event",
        },
        "category_properties": {
            "data_format": "mixpanel_event",
            "compression": "none"
        },
        "status": "active",
        "created_at": "2020-09-17T02:10:33.799738Z",
        "created_by": "[email protected]"
    }
}