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API client / Methods / Insights
Required API Key: any key with the search ACL
Method signature
$insights->user(userToken)->viewedFilters(
  string eventName,
  string indexName,
  array filters
)

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About this method

Send a view event to capture the active filters for items a user viewed.

When users browse a category page, they see content filtered on that specific category.

To capture the active filters, send a viewEvent.

Sending this event is useful for:

Examples

Read the Algolia CLI documentation for more information.

For more information about initializing the Insights client aa, see Initialize the Insights client.

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$insights = Algolia\AlgoliaSearch\InsightsClient::create(
  'YourApplicationID',
  'YourSearchOnlyAPIKey'
);

$insights->user("user-123456")->viewedFilters(
  'Brand Viewed',
  'YourIndexName',
  ['brand:google']
);

Parameters

Parameter Description
userToken
type: string
pattern: [A-Za-z0-9_=+/-]{1,129}
Required

Anonymous user identifier.

See also: User Token

authenticatedUserToken
type: string
pattern: [A-Za-z0-9_=+/-]{1,129}
Optional

Pseudonymous identifier for authenticated users.

Never include personally identifiable information in user tokens.

See also: User Token

eventName
type: string
pattern: [\x20-\x7E]{1,64}
Required

Name of the specific event.

Format: 1-64 ASCII characters, except control characters.

To maximize the impact of your events, use consistent event names and consistent formatting—for example, “Product Added To Cart” (always in title case).

For example, you can adopt Segment’s object-action framework.

indexName
type: string
Required

Name of the Algolia index.

Format: same as the index name used by the search engine.

Some API clients use index instead of indexName.

filters
type: array
items: string
pattern: ${attr}:${value}
Required

List of facet filters.

You can include up to 10 filters.

Format: ${attribute}:${value}—for example, brand:apple. Both the attribute and value in each facet filter must be URL-encoded individually and separated by a :, such as, "discount:10%25".

Response

This method doesn't return a response.

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