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Unity Analytics Raw Data Export

Overview

Unity Analytics Raw Data Export gives you full access to raw event data. This lets you use the data in whatever way you choose, for example to construct custom queries or data visualizations.

There are two ways you can access raw data export:

The Unity Analytics dashboard user interface
By calling the REST API

Raw Data Export provides data from June 2016 onwards.

Analytics dashboard user interface

The Unity Analytics dashboard provides a way to export and access your raw event data without writing any code. In your Unity Analytics dashboard (analytics.cloud.unity3d.com), select your project and navigate to Analytics > Raw Data Export.

Then follow these steps in the Export section of that screen:

Specify the Data Set you want to export (such as appRunning, appStart, custom, deviceInfo, or transaction).
Specify the Start Date, or alternatively continue exporting data from a previous job by selecting the Previous Job Id from the drop-down box.
Specify the End Date.
The file format defaults to JSON. Specify your preferred file format by clicking on and selecting an item from the drop-down menu under Export as JSON.

The Export section and Activity table on the Raw Data Export screen — The **Export** section and **Activity** table on the **Raw Data Export** screen

Raw Data Export automatically creates the job and displays it in the Activity table on the screen.

Once the job is done, you can download your data by selecting the files from the Download column.

REST (Representational State Transfer) API

Every data point sent to Unity Analytics is stored in Unity’s data store. The Raw Data Export APIs allow you to download your raw event data in files as the data is received and stored.

Requirements

Every request requires HTTP Basic authentication using your Unity Project ID (UPID) and API Key.

Limitations

The request period (startDate to endDate) is limited to 31 days.
Limits to usage may be subject to change.
Unity Analytics retains the raw data files generated for a request for 14 days. (To access the data after 14 days has elapsed, make a new request.)

User workflow

To export raw data, call the Create Raw Data Export API. This request triggers an asynchronous job to process the data. The time this takes depends on how much data is being exported.

To get the current status or result, poll using the Get Raw Data Export API. Once the export is completed, you can get the result in the response of this API. The result contains the list of files and the corresponding download URLs. You can loop through the URLs and download the exported data.

Notes:

All dates and times in requests or responses are in the UTC timezone.
API requests or responses use the JSON format (which is formatted for readability in this document). The data file format is configurable.
Data is exported in .gzip compressed files.
The URL base for the API is https://analytics.cloud.unity3d.com.

Create Raw Data Export

A Raw Data Export is specific to a project and specific to a single dataset (event type). The request period is limited to 31 days.

Use the following HTTP method to create a Raw Data Export:

POST api/v2/projects/{UNITY_PROJECT_ID}/rawdataexports

Arguments are provided in the payload of the request, and are in JSON format with the Content-Type application/json.

Request argument	Required or optional	Type	Description
startDate	Required unless continueFrom is specified	string	The start date (inclusive) of the export. The date is expressed in YYYY-MM-DD format (ISO–8601).
endDate	Required	String	The end data (exclusive) of the export. The date is expressed in YYYY-MM-DD format (ISO 8601). This is the date at which to close the query. When searching for the current day, use the following day’s date.
format	Required	String	The output data format: json (newline-delimited json) or tsv.
dataset	Required	String	One of the following event types: appStart, appRunning, deviceInfo, custom, or transaction.
continueFrom	Optional	String	The Raw Data Export ID to continue exporting data from. This is used for continuing a previous export from the point it finished. See Continuing for more information. Instead of specifying a startDate, a prior Raw Data Export ID could be specified in continueFrom. It is an error to specify both continueFrom and startDate.

Template for a request using cURL on the command line:

curl --user {UNITY_PROJECT_ID}:{API_KEY} --request POST --header "Content-Type: application/json" --data {REQUEST_JSON}
https://analytics.cloud.unity3d.com/api/v2/projects/{UNITY_PROJECT_ID}/rawdataexports

Example values:

UNITY_PROJECT_ID = aa43ae0a-a7a7-4016-ae96-e253bb126aa8
API_KEY = 166291ff148b2878375a8e54aebb1549
REQUEST_JSON = { "startDate": "2016-05-15" , "endDate": "2016-05-16", "format": "tsv", "dataset": "appStart" }

An actual request using the example values:

curl --user aa43ae0a-a7a7-4016-ae96-e253bb126aa8:166291ff148b2878375a8e54aebb1549 --request POST --header "Content-Type: application/json" --data '{ "startDate": "2016-05-15" , "endDate": "2016-05-16", "format": "tsv", "dataset": "appStart" }' https://analytics.cloud.unity3d.com/api/v2/projects/aa43ae0a-a7a7-4016-ae96-e253bb126aa8/rawdataexports

The response uses the common Raw Data Export Response Attributes in JSON format.

Raw Data Export Response Attributes

Response attribute	Type	Description
id	String	The Raw Data Export ID.
upid	String	The Unity Project ID.
createdAt	String	The created time in ISO 8601 format.
status	string	The current status of the export. Possible values are: running, completed, or failed.
duration	Long	The time it took to export data (in milliseconds).
request	Json	The request arguments.
result	Json	The result contains attributes that detail the exported data. The result is only available after the export is successfully completed. See below for result attributes.
result.size	Long	The total size of the data exported (in bytes).
result.eventCount	Long	The total number of events exported.
result.intraDay	Boolean	When the request includes the current day it might not contain all the data for the day. This attribute is TRUE if the data is incomplete for the last day.
result.fileList	Json	The list of files containing the data exported. The file list is empty when there is no data.
result.fileList.name	String	The file name.
result.fileList.url	String	The download URL for the file. The files are compressed in gzip format.
result.fileList.size	Long	The size of the file in bytes.
result.fileList.date	String	The file contains events for this specific date. This date is based on the submit time of the event. There may be multiple files for the same date. The date in is in ISO 8601 format.

An example of response:

{  
   "id":"8228d1e9-31b3-4a5e-aabe-55d9c8afa052",
   "upid":"beff3f49-b9ed-41a4-91ea-677e9b85e71e",
   "createdAt":"2016-05-10T10:10:10.100+0000",
   "status":"running",
   "duration" : 0,
   "request":{  
      "startDate":"2016-05-01",
      "endDate":"2016-05-02",
      "format":"json",
      "dataset":"appRunning"
   }
}

Continue creating from a prior Raw Data Export

When you are running periodic Raw Data Exports, you must provide the continueFrom argument instead of the startDate to make sure you are continuing from the previous Raw Data Export. Prior Raw Data Export IDs can be fetched via the GET APIs or accessed via the Dashboard.

Prior Raw Data Exports in the Unity Analytics Project Dashboard

Get Raw Data Export

Use the following HTTP method to get a specific Raw Data Export or ongoing export status:

GET api/v2/projects/{UNITY_PROJECT_ID}/rawdataexports/{raw_data_export_id}

All required arguments are part of the URL path.

An example of a request:

curl --user {UNITY_PROJECT_ID}:${API_KEY} https://analytics.cloud.unity3d.com/api/v2/projects/{UNITY_PROJECT_ID}/rawdataexports/${ID}

The response is the Raw Data Export in JSON format. It is the same as the response in Create Raw Data Export.

An example of a response:

{  
   "id":"6601f70e-6a0b-48ed-909f-26711af82b49",
   "status":"completed",
   "createdAt":"2016-05-21T04:41:54.000+0000",
   "duration":8631714000,
   "request":{  
      "startDate":"2016-02-11T00:00:00.000+0000",
      "endDate":"2016-03-11T00:00:00.000+0000",
      "format":"tsv",
      "dataset":"custom"
   },
   "result":{  
      "size":78355,
      "eventCount":17473,
      "fileList":[  
         {  
            "name":"headers.gz",
            "url":"https://uca-export.s3.amazonaws.com/staging/devTest/custom/appid%3DUNITY_PROJECT_ID/jid%3D6601f70e-6a0b-48ed-909f-26711af82b49/headers.gz?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAJUXGNF66F4XPWSWA&Expires=1463872651&Signature=PnzIeeI%2FNxSOlKkLVpLcfK%2FxVpU%3D",
            "size":105
         },
         {  
            "name":"part-4b0cf376-3478-4bc8-845e-f73aff5c0be4.gz",
            "url":"https://uca-export.s3.amazonaws.com/staging/devTest/custom/appid%3DUNITY_PROJECT_ID/jid%3D6601f70e-6a0b-48ed-909f-26711af82b49/part-4b0cf376-3478-4bc8-845e-f73aff5c0be4.gz?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAJUXGNF66F4XPWSWA&Expires=1463872651&Signature=xZk3%2BzQNTQ6yjK2Mh%2FaH338ABn8%3D",
            "size":78250,
            "date":"2016-02-13T00:00:00.000+0000"
         }
      ],
      "intraDay":false
   }
}

List all Raw Data Exports

Use this HTTP method to get the list of all Raw Data Exports for a specific project:

GET api/v2/projects/{UNITY_PROJECT_ID}/rawdataexports

All required arguments are part of the URL path.

An example of a request:

curl --user {UNITY_PROJECT_ID}:${API_KEY} https://analytics.cloud.unity3d.com/api/v2/projects/${UNITY_PROJECT_ID}/rawdataexports/

The response is a list of Raw Data Exports in JSON format. See Raw Data Export Response Attributes for the definition of each export list element.

An example of a response:

[
{  
   "id":"6601f70e-6a0b-48ed-909f-26711af82b49",
   "status":"completed",
   "createdAt":"2016-05-21T04:41:54.000+0000",
   "duration":8631714000,
   "request":{  
      "startDate":"2016-02-11T00:00:00.000+0000",
      "endDate":"2016-03-11T00:00:00.000+0000",
      "format":"tsv",
      "dataset":"custom"
   },
   "result":{  
      "size":78355,
      "eventCount":17473,
      "fileList":[  
         {  
            "name":"headers.gz",
            "url":"https://uca-export.s3.amazonaws.com/staging/devTest/custom/appid%3DUNITY_PROJECT_ID/jid%3D6601f70e-6a0b-48ed-909f-26711af82b49/headers.gz?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAJUXGNF66F4XPWSWA&Expires=1463872651&Signature=PnzIeeI%2FNxSOlKkLVpLcfK%2FxVpU%3D",
            "size":105
         },
         {  
            "name":"part-4b0cf376-3478-4bc8-845e-f73aff5c0be4.gz",
            "url":"https://uca-export.s3.amazonaws.com/staging/devTest/custom/appid%3DUNITY_PROJECT_ID/jid%3D6601f70e-6a0b-48ed-909f-26711af82b49/part-4b0cf376-3478-4bc8-845e-f73aff5c0be4.gz?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAJUXGNF66F4XPWSWA&Expires=1463872651&Signature=xZk3%2BzQNTQ6yjK2Mh%2FaH338ABn8%3D",
            "size":78250,
            "date":"2016-02-13T00:00:00.000+0000"
         }
      ],
      "intraDay":false
   }
},
{  
   "id":"6601f70e-6a0b-48ed-909f-26711af82b48",
   "status":"completed",
   "createdAt":"2016-05-21T04:41:54.000+0000",
   "duration":8631714000,
   "request":{  
      "startDate":"2016-02-11T00:00:00.000+0000",
      "endDate":"2016-03-11T00:00:00.000+0000",
      "format":"tsv",
      "dataset":"custom"
   },
   "result":{  
      "size":78355,
      "eventCount":17473,
      "fileList":[  
         {  
            "name":"headers.gz",
            "url":"https://uca-export.s3.amazonaws.com/staging/devTest/custom/appid%3DUNITY_PROJECT_ID/jid%3D6601f70e-6a0b-48ed-909f-26711af82b48/headers.gz?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAJUXGNF66F4XPWSWA&Expires=1463872651&Signature=PnzIeeI%2FNxSOlKkLVpLcfK%2FxVpU%3D",
            "size":105
         },
         {  
            "name":"part-4b0cf376-3478-4bc8-845e-f73aff5c0be4.gz",
            "url":"https://uca-export.s3.amazonaws.com/staging/devTest/custom/appid%3DUNITY_PROJECT_ID/jid%3D6601f70e-6a0b-48ed-909f-26711af82b48/part-4b0cf376-3478-4bc8-845e-f73aff5c0be4.gz?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAJUXGNF66F4XPWSWA&Expires=1463872651&Signature=xZk3%2BzQNTQ6yjK2Mh%2FaH338ABn8%3D",
            "size":78250,
            "date":"2016-02-13T00:00:00.000+0000"
         }
      ],
      "intraDay":false
   }
}
]

TSV format

If you choose to export in TSV format, the headers are provided in a separate file in headers.gz. The data files do not include headers.

An example headers file:

ts  appid   type    userid  sessionid   platform    sdk_ver debug_device    user_agent  submit_time name    custom_params

Dataset

Each of the six data types (event types) differ. See below for their schema definitions.