Lytics Data Tool

Installation

pip install lytics

# if you don't have Pip install it
curl -O https://raw.github.com/pypa/pip/master/contrib/get-pip.py
python get-pip.py
# or apt-get install python-pip on debian

Data collection

This allows collection of 2 general types of data

1. Event data: a user visits, views, clicks. You can upload log files, other user events.
2. Entity Data: Information about a user, company, etc.

examples:

# start an interactive command line to type in name=value pairs for collection
# sends one request per line
lytics --aid=123456 --key=myapikey collect

# tail a file, sending each new line as a lytics.io data point
tail -F myfile.log | lytics --aid=123456 --key=mysecret collect

# write to stdout
myapp | lytics --aid=123456 --key=mysecret collect

# or the same
lytics --aid=123456 --key=mysecret collect < myapp

Read from A database. Because lytics handles Entity Data you may often want to read from a database and upload info to be added to event level data from javascript or mobile tags:

# read from a database table using .sql in `myscript.sql` and send one entry per row
lytics --dbuser=username --dbpwd=pwd --dbhost=localhost \
    --db=mydbname --aid=123456 --key=SECRET \
    DB upload < myscript.sql

Management Api

Manage your queries (analysis):

# sync the qry.txt files to the api
lytics setconfig key yourkey
lytics query sync < qry.lql

Configuration Options

You can pass parameters such as aid (accountid) or key (apikey) on the command line or create environment variables for them.

Create a .lytics file in current folder with these values:

# Set the aid setting permanently to 123456 in current folder
export LIOAID=123456

# api key
export LIOKEY=myapikey

# load them
. .lytics

lytics query sync < qry.lql  # does not require key