Use Autocapture to get fast insights

Amplitude's Autocapture is the best option for getting up and running quickly. This document helps you enable Autocapture across your digital products for out of the box analytics with minimal engineering.

Autocapture for the web

Starting with version 2.10.0, the Amplitude Browser SDK includes Autocapture to help you capture events, interactions, and attribution on your site.

Install the Browser SDK

To get started with Autocapture, install the latest version of the Browser SDK (2.11.3).

1<script src="https://cdn.amplitude.com/libs/analytics-browser-2.11.3-min.js.gz"></script>
2<script>
3  window.amplitude.init("AMPLITUDE_API_KEY", {
4      autocapture: { elementInteractions: true }
5  });
6</script>

1npm install @amplitude/analytics-browser

1yarn add @amplitude/analytics-browser

Initialize the SDK

Browser SDK 2.10.0 and above includes element click and change tracking, which enables visual labeling within Amplitude. To enable it, make sure config.autocapture.elementInteractions is set to true when initializing the SDK.

Autocapture ships with Browser SDK 2.10.0 and above. To enable it, set config.autocapture.elementInteractions to true when initializing the SDK.

1import * as amplitude from '@amplitude/analytics-browser';
2import { autocapturePlugin } from '@amplitude/plugin-autocapture-browser';
3 
4amplitude.init('AMPLITUDE_API_KEY', {
5  autocapture: {
6    elementInteractions: true
7  }
8});

Content security policy (CSP)

If your web app configures the strict Content Security Policy (CSP) for security concerns, adjust the policy to allowlist to Amplitude domains:

• Add https://*.amplitude.com to script-src
• Add https://*.amplitude.com to connect-src

Events

For more information, see Autocapture in the Browser SDK 2 documentation.

Marketing attribution

Captures the following properties:

• UTM parameters (utm_source, utm_medium, utm_campaign, utm_term, utm_content)
• Referrer parameters (referrer, referring_domain)
• Click identifiers for Google, Facebook, Kochava, Microsoft, TikTok, X (Twitter), LinkedIn, and Reddit.
• First-touch and multi-touch. For more information about attribution, see Use sessions, channels, and attribution to drive marketing analytics.

User properties

Amplitude attaches User Properties to all Autocapture events, unless disabled.

Visual labeling for web

Amplitude's visual labeling tool enables you to identify and select individual elements on a page that you want to track. For example, if you want to track the number of users who click a Sign up, button you can select it with visual labeling, and Amplitude creates an event that targets the specific element.

Events you add with visual labeling work retroactively, since Amplitude captures all form-related events starting from when your instrumentation is live.

For more information, see Visual labeling.

Autocapture for iOS

The latest version of Amplitude's iOS SDK includes Autocapture capabilities.

Install the SDK

Install the SDK as instructed in the iOS-Swift SDK documentation.

Initialize the SDK with Autocapture enabled

The iOS SDK enables session tracking, and disables application lifecycle, screen view, and element interaction tracking by default. To enable all Autocapture capabilities, initialize the SDK with the following snippet:

1let amplitude = Amplitude(configuration: Configuration(
2    apiKey: "API_KEY",
3    autocapture: [.sessions, .appLifecycles, .screenViews, .elementInteractions] 
4))

1AMPConfiguration* configuration = [AMPConfiguration initWithApiKey:@"API_KEY"];
2configuration.autocapture = [[AMPAutocaptureOptions alloc] initWithOptionsToUnion:@[  
3    AMPAutocaptureOptions.sessions,  
4    AMPAutocaptureOptions.appLifecycles,  
5    AMPAutocaptureOptions.screenViews,  
6    AMPAutocaptureOptions.elementInteractions  
7]]; 
8Amplitude* amplitude = [Amplitude initWithConfiguration:configuration];

Autocapture events

User properties

Amplitude attaches User Properties to all Autocapture events, unless disabled.

Autocapture for Android

The latest version of Amplitude's Android SDK includes Autocapture capabilities.

Install the SDK

Install the SDK as instructed in the Android-Kotlin SDK documentation.

Initialize the SDK with Autocapture enabled

The Android-Kotlin SDK enables session tracking, and disables application lifecycle, screen view, deep link, and element interaction tracking by default. To enable all Autocapture capabilities, initialize the SDK with the following snippet:

 1Amplitude(
 2    Configuration(
 3     apiKey = AMPLITUDE_API_KEY,
 4        context = applicationContext,
 5        autocapture = autocaptureOptions { 
 6          +sessions               // or `+Autocapture.SESSIONS` 
 7          +appLifecycles          // or `+Autocapture.APP_LIFECYCLES` 
 8          +deepLinks              // or `+Autocapture.DEEP_LINKS` 
 9          +screenViews            // or `+Autocapture.SCREEN_VIEWS` 
10          +elementInteractions    // or `+Autocapture.ELEMENT_INTERACTIONS` 
11        } 
12    )
13)

1Configuration configuration = new Configuration(AMPLITUDE_API_KEY, getApplicationContext());
2configuration.getAutocapture().addAll(Arrays.asList( 
3    AutocaptureOption.APP_LIFECYCLES, 
4    AutocaptureOption.DEEP_LINKS, 
5    AutocaptureOption.SCREEN_VIEWS, 
6    AutocaptureOption.ELEMENT_INTERACTIONS 
7)); 
8 
9Amplitude amplitude = new Amplitude(configuration);

Autocapture events

User properties

Amplitude attaches User Properties to all Autocapture event, unless disabled.