Create event using user custom ID

Events could be used in many ways, for example if you have e-commerce shop - you could bind that event to certain button, lets say it is Add to cart button, then pass data through that event.

POST

/users-by-id/:user_id/events/

Data
Type
Description
user_id
integer
Your user custom ID
name
string
The name of newly created event
timestamp
timestamp
Date when this event was performed in UNIX format
data
array
Additional data
curl -X POST -H "Authorization: Token <your_64_char_api_key>" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{
   "name":"profile_updated",
   "timestamp": 1426967129,
   "data":{
      "keyData1":"value for key data 1"
   }
}' "https://<your_app_subdomain>.user.com/api/public/users-by-id/:user_id/events/"

Response

{
  "id": 86,
  "created": true
}

Note:

'created: true' means that this is first occurrence for for created event
'created: false' means that there is at least one occurence for this event in database 
var settings = {
  "async": true,
  "crossDomain": true,
  "url": "https://<your_app_subdomain>.user.com/api/public/users-by-id/:user_id/events/",
  "method": "POST",
  "headers": {
    "authorization": "Token <your_64_char_api_key>",
    "content-type": "application/json"
  },
  "processData": false,
  "data": "{\r\n   \"name\":\"profile_updated\",\r\n \"name\":1426967129,\r\n   \"data\":{\r\n      \"keyData1\":\"value for key data 1\"\r\n   }\r\n}"
}

$.ajax(settings).done(function (response) {
  console.log(response);
});
var data = JSON.stringify({
  "name": "profile_updated",
  "timestamp": 1426967129,
  "data": {
    "keyData1": "value for key data 1"
  }
});

var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
xhr.withCredentials = true;

xhr.addEventListener("readystatechange", function () {
  if (this.readyState === 4) {
    console.log(this.responseText);
  }
});

xhr.open("POST", "https://<your_app_subdomain>.user.com/api/public/users-by-id/:user_id/events/");
xhr.setRequestHeader("authorization", "Token <your_64_char_api_key>");
xhr.setRequestHeader("content-type", "application/json");

xhr.send(data);
var request = require("request");

var options = { method: 'POST',
  url: 'https://<your_app_subdomain>.user.com/api/public/users-by-id/:user_id/events/',
  headers:
   { 'content-type': 'application/json',
     authorization: 'Token <your_64_char_api_key>' },
  body:
   { name: 'profile_updated',
     timestamp: 1426967129,
     data: { keyData1: 'value for key data 1' } },
  json: true };

request(options, function (error, response, body) {
  if (error) throw new Error(error);

  console.log(body);
});
<?php

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, array(
  CURLOPT_URL => "https://<your_app_subdomain>.user.com/api/public/users-by-id/:user_id/events/",
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
  CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
  CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
  CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "POST",
  CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => "{\r\n   \"name\":\"profile_updated\",\r\n \"name\":1426967129,\r\n  \"data\":{\r\n      \"keyData1\":\"value for key data 1\"\r\n   }\r\n}",
  CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => array(
    "authorization: Token <your_64_char_api_key>",
    "content-type: application/json"
  ),
));

$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);

curl_close($curl);

if ($err) {
  echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
  echo $response;
}
import requests

url = "https://<your_app_subdomain>.user.com/api/public/users-by-id/:user_id/events/"

payload = "{\r\n   \"name\":\"profile_updated\"\r\n \"name\":1426967129 \r\n  \"data\":{\r\n      \"keyData1\":\"value for key data 1\"\r\n   }\r\n}"
headers = {
    'authorization': "Token <your_64_char_api_key>",
    'content-type': "application/json"
    }

response = requests.request("POST", url, data=payload, headers=headers)

print(response.text)
import http.client

conn = http.client.HTTPSConnection("<your_app_subdomain>.user.com")

payload = "{\r\n   \"name\":\"profile_updated\",\\r\n  \"name\":1426967129,\\r\n \"data\":{\r\n      \"keyData1\":\"value for key data 1\"\r\n   }\r\n}"

headers = {
    'authorization': "Token <your_64_char_api_key>",
    'content-type': "application/json"
    }

conn.request("POST", "/api/public/users-by-id/:user_id/events/", payload, headers)

res = conn.getresponse()
data = res.read()

print(data.decode("utf-8"))