Freshpaint Web SDK Options

Init Options

Freshpaint's SDK accepts a number of options in its init method. We'll go over those options in this document. Here's a typical invocation of init, which you can find in our Autotrack snippet:

freshpaint.init("11111111-2222-3333-4444-555555555555", {
  "api_host": "https://my.api.host/prod",
  "app_host": "https://my.app.host"
});

Below is a table of the options we support with the init method:

OptionTypeDefaultDescription

api_host

string

(your account's api host)

We use api_host to communicate with our servers, whether that's loading event definitions or tracking events. You shouldn't change the value of this option without specific guidance from Freshpaint.

app_host

string

(your account's app host)

This is an internal option we use to support client-side events and our Visual Tagger. You shouldn't change this value without specific guidance from Freshpaint.

disable_target_text_capture

boolean

false

Set this option to true if you don't want autotrack to capture target text properties like $el_text and $el_nested_text.

integrations

object

{}

Pass a list of integrations that you want to send your events to. This will override your events normal destinations. See the documentation on event options for details on how this should look.

persistence

string

cookie

How Freshpaint's SDK will save user session information. The possible values are cookie and localStorage.

unload_wait_time

number

100

The SDK will register an onUnload event to wait this number of milliseconds to let any queued events be sent to us and client-side destinations when closing a page with the SDK on it. Increasing this will cause us to wait longer, and maybe capture more events, at the cost of a longer delay before leaving a page.

session_timeout

number

1800 (30 minutes)

The timeout for Freshpaint to start a new session, in seconds. If more than session_timeout seconds have passed since the last event was registered in an existing session, Freshpaint will start a new session and generate a new distinct session_id.

Event Options

Each event allows you to pass in a list of integrations to which you want to send your event. This is a great way to conditionally enable or disable an integration while you're experimenting. Here's an example of how it works:

freshpaint.track(
  "some-event-name",
  {
    "some_property": 123,
    "$options": {
      integrations: {
        All: false,
        Mixpanel: true,
        Iterable: true
      }
    } 
  }
);

There's a couple of interesting properties to highlight here. The first is All: false. You can use this to override your event's normal list of destinations, and send to none of them, except for Mixpanel and Iterable, which are both true.

The inverse of this behavior is also possible. Consider the following:

{
  All: true,
  Mixpanel: false
}

Here, you'll send to every destination except Mixpanel.

If you have multiple configured instances of a given destination type, you can choose a specific one with a suffix, such as: Facebook Conversions API::0123456789012345. The configuration page for the instance shows the full value to use. When no suffix is specified, all configured instances of the destination type are selected for inclusion / exclusion.

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