Analytics - Write Player Event

Service:

Client

API Version:

241122

Writes a player-based event into PlayStream.

POST https://titleId.playfabapi.com/Client/WritePlayerEvent

Request Header

Name	Required	Type	Description
X-Authorization	True	string	This API requires a client session ticket, available from any Client Login function.

Request Body

Name	Required	Type	Description
EventName	True	string	The name of the event, within the namespace scoped to the title. The naming convention is up to the caller, but it commonly follows the subject_verb_object pattern (e.g. player_logged_in).
Body		object	Custom data properties associated with the event. Each property consists of a name (string) and a value (JSON object).
CustomTags		object	The optional custom tags associated with the request (e.g. build number, external trace identifiers, etc.).
Timestamp		string	The time (in UTC) associated with this event. The value defaults to the current time.

Responses

Name	Type	Description
200 OK	WriteEventResponse
400 Bad Request	ApiErrorWrapper	This is the outer wrapper for all responses with errors

Security

X-Authorization

This API requires a client session ticket, available from any Client Login function.

Type: apiKey
In: header

Definitions

Name	Description
ApiErrorWrapper	The basic wrapper around every failed API response
WriteClientPlayerEventRequest	This API is designed to write a multitude of different event types into PlayStream. It supports a flexible JSON schema, which allowsfor arbitrary key-value pairs to describe any player-based event. The created event will be locked to the authenticated title and player.
WriteEventResponse

ApiErrorWrapper

The basic wrapper around every failed API response

Name	Type	Description
code	integer	Numerical HTTP code
error	string	Playfab error code
errorCode	integer	Numerical PlayFab error code
errorDetails	object	Detailed description of individual issues with the request object
errorMessage	string	Description for the PlayFab errorCode
status	string	String HTTP code

WriteClientPlayerEventRequest

This API is designed to write a multitude of different event types into PlayStream. It supports a flexible JSON schema, which allowsfor arbitrary key-value pairs to describe any player-based event. The created event will be locked to the authenticated title and player.

Name	Type	Description
Body	object	Custom data properties associated with the event. Each property consists of a name (string) and a value (JSON object).
CustomTags	object	The optional custom tags associated with the request (e.g. build number, external trace identifiers, etc.).
EventName	string	The name of the event, within the namespace scoped to the title. The naming convention is up to the caller, but it commonly follows the subject_verb_object pattern (e.g. player_logged_in).
Timestamp	string	The time (in UTC) associated with this event. The value defaults to the current time.

WriteEventResponse

Name	Type	Description
EventId	string	The unique identifier of the event. The values of this identifier consist of ASCII characters and are not constrained to any particular format.

Error Codes

Name	Code
InvalidEventField	1216
NoWritePermissionsForEvent	1207