Pixel logs can be imported to Parse.ly's backend in CSV format. Each row in the CSV file represents an event, which is analogous to a single request made by the Parse.ly tracker.

#Example

The following is an example of some different event types specified in CSV format. The column names shown are the minimum set necessary to get useful data out of the Parse.ly dashboard, but there are many other columns supported, which are documented below. The order of the columns doesn't matter, and you can choose to include or exclude most columns based on the characteristics of your dataset. The only strictly required columns, which must be non-empty for each row, are apikey, url, action, and timestamp_ms, though we recommend including all of the standard fields.

The raw log file format follows this CSV specification, especially regarding things like literal commas and quote escaping.

apikey,url,referrer,action,user_agent,timestamp_ms,visitor.ip,visitor.site_id

blog.parsely.com,https://blog.parse.ly/post/7908/prospective-students-reading/,https://blog.parse.ly/,pageview,Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 8.0.0; Moto Z (2) Build/ODXS27.109-34-7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML\, like Gecko) Chrome/66.0.3359.158 Mobile Safari/537.36,1526428787.196,141.126.54.43,z3nv4P0KHOdpTJwsGV7jL
blog.parsely.com,https://blog.parse.ly/post/3644/solve-digital-media-biggest-problems/,https://blog.parse.ly/post/7908/prospective-students-reading/,pageview,Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:56.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/56.0,1526428787.196,141.126.54.43,z3nv4PaKHOhpTJjsGV7jL

#Standard fields

#apikey

A string representing the name of the Parse.ly Site ID (apikey) for which the event should be counted. This value will be provided by Parse.ly for each site tracked.

#url

The url of the page on which the event happened. The Parse.ly tracker uses window.location.href as a default for this value.

#referrer

The HTTP referrer of the pageload on which the event happened. The Parse.ly tracker uses document.referrer as a default for this value.

#action

A string indicating the event's type. Currently, only pageview is supported by this import process.

#user_agent

The user agent string of the agent (browser) in which the event happened.

#timestamp_ms

A timestamp indicating the time at which the event was sent by the agent, in milliseconds, since epoch.

#visitor.ip

The IP address from which the event originated.

#visitor.site_id

A UUID uniquely identifying the user on whose behalf the event was sent. Expected to be unique within a 30-day period across the site from which the event was sent.

#Other supported fields

#session.id

A string uniquely identifying the user session from which the event originated. The Parse.ly tracker uses a 30 minute timeout to delineate user sessions.

#session.timestamp

A timestamp indicating the time at which the user session from which the event originated started, in seconds since epoch.

#session.initial_url

The url of the page on which the user session from which the event originated. The Parse.ly tracker defaults this value to window.location.href.

#session.initial_referrer

The HTTP referrer of the pageload on which the user session from which the event originated. The Parse.ly tracker defaults this value to document.referrer.

#session.last_session_timestamp

The start timestamp of the user session preceding the one from which the event originated, in seconds since epoch.