Data Subject Access Request API

The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) requires businesses to provide all data about an end user upon request. This Data Subject Access Request (DSAR) API makes it easy to retrieve all data about a user.

Authentication

This API uses basic authentication, using the API key and secret key for your project. Pass base64-encoded credentials in the request header like {api-key}:{secret-key}. api-key replaces username, and secret-key replaces the password.

Your authorization header should look something like this:

--header 'Authorization: Basic YWhhbWwsdG9uQGFwaWdlZS5jb206bClwYXNzdzByZAo'

For more information, see Find your API Credentials

Endpoints

Region	Endpoint
Standard server	`https://amplitude.com/api/2/dsar/requests`

Considerations

You can expect about one file per month per app for which the user has data.
Each download URL requires the same auth credentials to access.
Because the API is asynchronous, you must poll to check the status of the request. See the Rate Limits section to help select the appropriate polling rate.

Asynchronous operation

To support data volume, this API works asynchronously. Getting user data happens in three steps:

Make a POST request, which returns a requestId.
Make a GET request using the requestId to check the status of the job.
When the job finishes, make a GET request to fetch a list of URLs from which to get the data files.

Output

Each file is gzipped, and the contents adhere to the following rules:

One line per event
Each line is a JSON object
No order guarantee

Example Output

1{"amplitude_id":123456789,"app":12345,"event_time":"2020-02-15 01:00:00.123456","event_type":"first_event","server_upload_time":"2020-02-18 01:00:00.234567"}
2{"amplitude_id":123456789,"app":12345,"event_time":"2020-02-15 01:00:11.345678","event_type":"second_event","server_upload_time":"2020-02-18 01:00:11.456789"}
3{"amplitude_id":123456789,"app":12345,"event_time":"2020-02-15 01:02:00.123456","event_type":"third_event","server_upload_time":"2020-02-18 01:02:00.234567"}

Rate limits

All DSAR endpoints share a budget of 14.4 K “cost” per hour. POST requests cost 8, and GET requests cost 1. Requests beyond this count get 429 response codes.

In general for each POST, there is typically one output file per month per project the user has events for.

For example, if you are fetching 13 months of data for a user with data in two projects, expect about 26 files.

If you need to get data for 40 users per hour, you can spend 14400 / 40 = 360 cost per request. Conservatively allocating 52 GETs for output files (twice the computed amount) and 8 for the initial POST, you can poll for the status of the request 360 - 8 - 52 = 300 times.

Given the 3 day SLA for results (4,320 minutes), this allows for checking the status every 4320 / 300 ~= 15 minutes over 3 days.
A practical use might be to have a service which runs every 20 minutes, posting 20 new requests and checking on the status of all outstanding requests.

SLAs

Request jobs complete within 3 days.
Request result expires in 2 days.
Users with more than 100k events per month aren't supported.

Example client implementation

 1base_url = 'https://amplitude.com/api/2/dsar/requests'
 2payload = {
 3  "amplitudeId": AMPLITUDE_ID,
 4  "startDate": "2019-03-01",
 5  "endDate": "2020-04-01"
 6}
 7headers = {
 8    'Accept': 'application/json',
 9    'Content-Type': 'application/json'
10}
11auth = HTTPBasicAuth(API_KEY, SECRET_KEY)
12r = requests.post(base_url, headers=headers, auth=auth, data=payload)
13request_id = r.json().get('requestId')
14time.sleep(POLL_DELAY)
15while (True):
16    r = requests.get(f'{base_url}/{request_id}', auth=auth, headers=headers)
17    response = r.json()
18    if response.get('status') == 'failed':
19        sys.exit(1)
20    if response.get('status') == 'done':
21        break
22    time.sleep(POLL_INTERVAL)
23for url in response.get('urls'):
24    r = requests.get(url, headers=headers, auth=auth, allow_redirects=True)
25    index = url.split('/')[-1]
26    filename = f'{AMPLITUDE_ID}-{index}.gz'
27    with open(f'{OUTPUT_DIR}/{filename}','wb') as f:
28        f.write(r.content)

Create a request for data

1curl --location --request POST 'https://amplitude.com/api/2/dsar/requests' \
2--header 'Accept: application/json' \
3--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
4-u '{org-api-key}:{org-secret_key}' \
5--data-raw '{
6"userId": 12345,
7"startDate": "2020-04-24",
8"endDate": "2022-02-20"
9}'

 1POST /api/2/dsar/requests HTTP/1.1
 2Host: amplitude.com
 3Accept: application/json
 4Content-Type: application/json
 5Authorization: Basic {org-api-key}:{org-secret_key} # credentials must be base64 encoded
 6{
 7    "userId": 12345,
 8    "startDate": "2020-04-24",
 9    "endDate": "2022-02-20"
10}

Example: Create a request by user ID

This example creates a request by user ID 12345, between the dates of April 24, 2020 and February 20, 2022.

1curl --location --request POST 'https://amplitude.com/api/2/dsar/requests' \
2--header 'Accept: application/json' \
3--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
4--header 'Authorization: Basic YWhhbWwsdG9uQGFwaWdlZS5jb206bClwYXNzdzByZAo' \
5--data-raw '{
6    "userId": 12345,
7    "startDate": "2020-04-24",
8    "endDate": "2022-02-20"
9}'

 1POST /api/2/dsar/requests HTTP/1.1
 2Host: amplitude.com
 3Accept: application/json
 4Content-Type: application/json
 5Authorization: Basic YWhhbWwsdG9uQGFwaWdlZS5jb206bClwYXNzdzByZAo
 6Content-Length: 83
 7 
 8{
 9    "userId": 12345,
10    "startDate": "2020-04-24",
11    "endDate": "2022-02-20"
12}

Example: Create a request by Amplitude ID

This example creates a request by Amplitude ID 90102919293, between the dates of April 24, 2020 and February 20, 2022.

1curl --location --request POST 'https://amplitude.com/api/2/dsar/requests' \
2--header 'Accept: application/json' \
3--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
4--header 'Authorization: Basic YWhhbWwsdG9uQGFwaWdlZS5jb206bClwYXNzdzByZAo' \
5--data-raw '{
6    "amplitudeId": 90102919293,
7    "startDate": "2020-04-24",
8    "endDate": "2022-02-20"
9}'

 1POST /api/2/dsar/requests HTTP/1.1
 2Host: amplitude.com
 3Accept: application/json
 4Content-Type: application/json
 5Authorization: Basic YWhhbWwsdG9uQGFwaWdlZS5jb206bClwYXNzdzByZAo
 6Content-Length: 83
 7 
 8{
 9    "amplitudeId": 90102919293,
10    "startDate": "2020-04-24",
11    "endDate": "2022-02-20"
12}

Request body

Name	Description
`userId`	Required if `amplitudeID` isn't set. The user ID of the user to request data for.
`amplitudeId`	Required if `userID` isn't set. Integer. The Amplitude ID of the user to request data for.
`startDate`	Required. Date. The start date for the data request.
`endDate`	Required. Date. The end date for the data request.

Response

When successful, the call returns a 202 Accepted response and requestID. Use the requestID to poll the job status.

1{
2    "requestId": 53367
3}

Get request status

Poll the data request job to get its status.

1curl --location --request GET 'https://amplitude.com/api/2/dsar/requests/requestID' \
2--header 'Accept: application/json' \
3--header 'Authorization: Basic org-api-key}:{org-secret_key}' #credentials must be base64 encoded

1GET /api/2/dsar/requests/requestID HTTP/1.1
2Host: amplitude.com
3Accept: application/json
4Authorization: Basic {org-api-key}:{org-secret_key} #credentials must be base64 encoded

Example: Poll a specific request

This example polls request 53367.

1curl --location --request GET 'https://amplitude.com/api/2/dsar/requests/53367' \
2--header 'Accept: application/json' \
3--header 'Authorization: Basic YWhhbWwsdG9uQGFwaWdlZS5jb206bClwYXNzdzByZAo'

1GET /api/2/dsar/requests/53367 HTTP/1.1
2Host: amplitude.com
3Accept: application/json
4Authorization: Basic YWhhbWwsdG9uQGFwaWdlZS5jb206bClwYXNzdzByZAo

Path variables

Name	Description
`requestId`	Required. The request ID retrieved with the create data request call.

Response

Name	Description
`requestId`	Integer. The ID of the request.
`userId`	String. The User Id of the user to request data for.
`amplitudeId`	Integer. The Amplitude ID of the user to request data for.
`startDate`	Date. The start date for the data request.
`endDate`	The end date for the data request.
`status`	staging: not started submitted: in progress done: job completed and download URLs populated failed: job failed, may need to retry
`failReason`	String. If the job failed, contains Information about the failure.
`urls`	Array of strings. A list of download URLs for the data.
`expires`	Data. The date that the output download links expire.

Get output files

Download a returned output file.

The download link is valid for two days. Most clients used to send API requests automatically download the data from the S3 link. If your API client doesn't automatically download the file from the link, access it manually using your org API key as the username and your org secret key as the password.

1curl --location --request GET 'https://analytics.amplitude.com/api/2/dsar/requests/:request_id/outputs/:output_id' \
2-u '{org-api-key}:{org-secret_key}'

1GET /api/2/dsar/requests/request_id/outputs/:output_id HTTP/1.1
2Host: analytics.amplitude.com
3Authorization: Basic {org-api-key}:{org-secret_key} # credentials must be base64 encoded

Example: Get the output for a specific request ID

This example gets output with ID 0 for request 53367.

1curl --location --request GET 'https://analytics.amplitude.com/api/2/dsar/requests/53367/outputs/0' \
2--header 'Authorization: Basic YWhhbWwsdG9uQGFwaWdlZS5jb206bClwYXNzdzByZAo'

1GET /api/2/dsar/requests/53367/outputs/0 HTTP/1.1
2Host: amplitude.com
3Accept: application/json
4Authorization: Basic YWhhbWwsdG9uQGFwaWdlZS5jb206bClwYXNzdzByZAo

Path variables

Name	Description
`request_id`	Required. Integer. The ID of the request. Returned with the original GET request.
`output_id`	Required. Integer. The ID of the output to download. An integer at the end of the URL returned in the status response after the job finishes.