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API client / Methods / Insights
Required API Key: any key with the search ACL
Method signature
$insights->user(string userToken)->convertedObjectIDs(
  string eventName,
  string indexName,
  array objectIDs
)

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About this method

Send a conversion event to capture clicked items.

Use this event to track when users convert on items unrelated to a previous Algolia request. For example, if you don’t use Algolia to build your category pages, use convertedObjectIDs.

Sending this event is useful for:

Related methods:

Examples

Read the Algolia CLI documentation for more information.

For more information about initializing the Insights client aa, see Initialize the Insights client.

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$insights = Algolia\AlgoliaSearch\InsightsClient::create(
  'YourApplicationID',
  'YourSearchOnlyAPIKey'
);

$insights->user("user-123456")->convertedObjectIDs(
  'Product Added To Wishlist',
  'YourIndexName',
  ['objectID-1', 'objectID-2']
);

Parameters

Parameter Description
userToken
type: string
pattern: [A-Za-z0-9_=+/-]{1,129}
Required

Anonymous user identifier.

See also: User Token

authenticatedUserToken
type: string
pattern: [A-Za-z0-9_=+/-]{1,129}
Optional

Pseudonymous identifier for authenticated users.

Never include personally identifiable information in user tokens.

See also: User Token

eventName
type: string
pattern: [\x20-\x7E]{1,64}
Required

Name of the specific event.

Format: 1-64 ASCII characters, except control characters.

To maximize the impact of your events, use consistent event names and consistent formatting—for example, “Product Added To Cart” (always in title case).

For example, you can adopt Segment’s object-action framework.

indexName
type: string
Required

Name of the Algolia index.

Format: same as the index name used by the search engine.

Some API clients use index instead of indexName.

objectIDs
type: array
items: string
Required

List of object identifiers for items of an Algolia index.

You can include up to 20 objectID.

Response

This method doesn't return a response.

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