Autocapture Remote Configuration

Autocapture Remote Configuration lets you make adjustments to your implementation and send additional metadata into Amplitude. Use Remote Configuration either when you are setting up Autocapture or after Autocapture is running. After you analyze your first data capture, use Remote Configuration to update autocapture's settings without needing a code update.

With remote configuration you can:

• Modify the SDK settings to adjust which events you want to capture. For example:
  • Turning specific Autocapture events on or off.
  • Configuring Autocapture events such as allowed elements or allowed pages and add sub-configurations.
  • Capturing additional properties such as page referrer or page URL across all events.

To set up remote configuration for autocapture

1. Go to Data > Settings > Autocapture.
2. Specify which elements you want to capture. By default, all elements are captured. You can capture or not capture any of the following elements:
   • File downloads: Track when a user clicks an anchor or <a> tag linked to a file.
   • Form Interactions: Track a user's interaction with the form element.
   • Sessions: Track the period of time that a user has your website open. Amplitude tracks both Start Session and End Session events.
   • Page Views: Track when a user navigates to a page.
   • Element Interactions: Track when users click links, buttons, inputs and so forth.
3. For Element Interactions, you can specify the following additional aspects:
   • CSS Selector Allowlist: CSS selectors that specify which elements on the page should always be tracked.
   • Action Click Allowlist: Additional CSS selectors that must be tracked when clicked.
   • Page URL Allowlist: Defines one or more URLs or URL patterns on which Amplitude tracks element click and change events.
   • Page URL Exclude List: Defines one or more URLs or URL patterns from Amplitude tracking any element clicks or change events. Note: Using RegEx or glob patterns requires your SDK version to be 2.23.7 or higher.
   • Text Masking RegEx Patterns: Defines the RegEx patterns that you want to mask for event properties in Autocapture. Note: Using this masking feature requires your SDK version to be 2.23.7 or higher.
   • Data Attribute Prefix: Lets the Amplitude capture data attributes as an event property.
4. Click Save Changes.