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  • Destination Info
  • Getting Started
  • Grant Freshpaint's Google Cloud Service Account publisher access to your Topic
  • Configure Freshpaint Event Definition to Topic Mappings
  • Events
  • Page
  • Identify
  • Group
  • Payload Format

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Google PubSub

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Use the Google PubSub destination to send Freshpaint data to a Google Pub/Sub Topic, facilitating queued reliable delivery to any number of Topic subscribers.

Destination Info

  • Supports , , and , and calls

  • Supports

  • Connection Modes:

Client-side
Server-side

Web

Mobile

Server

Getting Started

To set up the Google PubSub destination, follow the steps below:

Grant Freshpaint's Google Cloud Service Account publisher access to your Topic

  1. In your Google Cloud Console, navigate to the

  2. Select one or more Topics using the checkboxes.

  3. Click "Add Principal" and specify Freshpaint's Service Account emailpubsub@freshpaint-1.iam.gserviceaccount.com, then choose Role: "Pub/Sub" -> "Pub/Sub Publisher", then click "Save".

  4. You should see the Freshpaint Service Account email listed under Role/Principal

Configure Freshpaint Event Definition to Topic Mappings

  1. Click "Add Mapping"

  2. Enter the Event Definition name to be mapped

  3. Enter the Google Pub/Sub Topic Name

  4. Click "Save"

Events

When you send an event to the Google Pubsub destination from Freshpaint, Freshpaint will send Event data for each mapped Event Definition to the corresponding Topic. The body of the message will look like this:

{
    "event": "a",
    "type": "track",
    "timestamp": "2022-12-28T21:16:50Z",
    "messageId": "iI5pcrFfZHTuAfEu1DZ6Mg==",
    "anonymousId": "1855a980cb1529-066ed15036156b-18525635-13c680-1855a980cb2178a",
    "context": {
        "page": {
            "url": "https://example.com/",
            "title": "Home Page",
            "path": "/"
        },
        "library": {
            "name": "freshpaint.js"
        }
    },
    "properties": {
        "customProp": 42
    }
}I

Page

When a pageview event occurs, Freshpaint will send pageview event data to the corresponding Topic. The body of the message will look like this:

{
    "type": "page",
    "timestamp": "2022-12-28T21:51:30Z",
    "messageId": "icgQY4taV/WsZPiE9/0ZaA==",
    "anonymousId": "1855a980cb1529-066ed15036156b-18525635-13c680-1855a980cb2178a",
    "context": {
        "page": null,
        "library": {
            "name": "freshpaint.js"
        }
    },
    "properties": {
        "url": "https://example.com/",
        "title": "Example Domain",
        "path": "/"
    }
}

Identify

{
    "type": "identify",
    "timestamp": "2022-12-28T22:00:25Z",
    "messageId": "Zi1TKug6D8lLqNUD1v0i1w==",
    "anonymousId": "1855a980cb1529-066ed15036156b-18525635-13c680-1855a980cb2178a",
    "userId": "hello@example.com",
    "context": {
        "page": {
            "url": "https://example.com/",
            "title": "Home Page",
            "path": "/"
        },
        "library": {
            "name": "freshpaint.js"
        }
    },
    "properties": {},
    "traits": {
        "phone": "+15558675309"
    }
}

Group

{
    "type": "group",
    "timestamp": "2022-12-28T21:56:23Z",
    "messageId": "7Kx9d7JNjo3Tbi9IcFITYw==",
    "anonymousId": "1855a980cb1529-066ed15036156b-18525635-13c680-1855a980cb2178a",
    "context": {
        "page": {
            "url": "https://example.com/",
            "title": "Home Page",
            "path": "/"
        },
        "library": {
            "name": "freshpaint.js"
        }
    },
    "groupId": "Acme, Inc",
    "properties": {},
    "traits": {
        "companyId": "1234"
    }
}

Payload Format

Here is what each piece of message body means:

Key
Type
Description

event

string

The name of the event

type

string

The type of the event, for example "track", "identify", "page", or "group"

timestamp

string

The time the event occurred. Example: "2022-08-08T17:15:45Z"

messageId

string

Unique id identifying this event

anonymousId

string

The ID of the device the identify call was performed on

userId

optional string

An identifier that uniquely identifies the user that performed the event (usually email address)

groupId

optional string

For group events, a string that uniquely identifies the group this user belongs to (such as a company name).

context.page

object

Data about the page that the event was performed on

context.library

object

Data about the Freshpaint SDK that was used to capture this event

properties

object

Any additional event properties for Track and Page events

traits

object

Any additional properties of the user (for identify events) or group (for group events)

Go to the in Freshpaint and click "Configure" for Mappings.

When you call , Freshpaint will send Identify data for each mapped Event Definition to the corresponding Topic. The body of the message will look like this:

When you call ,Freshpaint will send Group data for each mapped Event Definition to the corresponding Topic. The body of the message will look like this:

Page
Track
Identify
Group
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freshpaint.identify('hello@example.com', {"phone": "+15558675309"}
freshpaint.group("Acme, Inc", {"companyId": "1234"})