mixpanel.py

# Example of adapting Mixpanel task to work with Celery

import base64
import simplejson
import urllib2

def track(event, properties=None):
    """
        A simple function for asynchronously logging to the mixpanel.com API.
        @param event: The overall event/category you would like to log this data under
        @param properties: A dictionary of key-value pairs that describe the event
        See http://mixpanel.com/api/ for further detail. 
        @return True on success
    """
    if properties == None:
        properties = {}
    token = "YOUR_TOKEN_HERE"
    if "token" not in properties:
        properties["token"] = token
    
    params = {"event": event, "properties": properties}
    data = base64.b64encode(simplejson.dumps(params))
    request = "http://api.mixpanel.com/track/?data=" + data

    url = urllib2.urlopen(request)
    return url.read() == "1"

        
def track_funnel(funnel, step, goal, properties=None):
    if properties == None:
        properties = {}
    properties["funnel"] = funnel
    properties["step"] = step
    properties["goal"] = goal
    track("mp_funnel", properties)