Mixpanel - Bulk delete old users - mixpanel

Question

I am about to go into the next plan in mixpanel for having too many people and would like to delete some old users first.
Is there a simple way/script/api to bulk delete old users?

Answer 1

I've written two scripts that may come in handy; mixpanel-engage-query and mixpanel-engage-post.
Using the first script (query) you can query your People Data and get a list of profiles, e.g. all users who have $last_seen set to a date older than X months.
Using the second script (post) you can perform actions in batch on those profiles, for example deleting them. See the README for an example of how to perform a batch delete.

Answer 2

Yes there is. Looking at the HTTP spec you'll find the following.
$delete
string Permanently delete the profile from Mixpanel, along with all of
its properties. The value is ignored - the profile is determined by
the $distinct_id from the request itself.
// This removes the user 13793 from Mixpanel
{
"$token": "36ada5b10da39a1347559321baf13063",
"$distinct_id": "13793",
"$delete": ""
}
Batch requests
Both the events endpoint at http://api.mixpanel.com/track/ and the profile update endpoint at http://api.mixpanel.com/engage/ accept batched updates. To send a batch of messages to an endpoint, you should use a POST instead of a GET request. Instead of sending a single JSON object as the data query parameter, send a JSON list of objects, base64 encoded, as the data parameter of an application/x-www-form-urlencoded POST request body.
// Here's a list of events
[
{
"event": "Signed Up",
"properties": {
"distinct_id": "13793",
"token": "e3bc4100330c35722740fb8c6f5abddc",
"Referred By": "Friend",
"time": 1371002000
}
},
{
"event": "Uploaded Photo",
"properties": {
"distinct_id": "13793",
"token": "e3bc4100330c35722740fb8c6f5abddc",
"Topic": "Vacation",
"time": 1371002104
}
}
]
Base64 encoded, the list becomes:
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
So the body of a POST request to send the events as a batch is:
data=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
Both endpoints will accept up to 50 messages in a single batch. Usually, batch requests will have a "time" property associated with events, or a "$time" attribute associated with profile updates.

Answer 3

Using the Mixpanel-api python Module
pip install mixpanel-api
This script will delete any profile that hasn't been seen since January 1st, 2019:
from mixpanel_api import Mixpanel
mixpanel = Mixpanel('MIXPANEL_SECRET', token='MIXPANEL_TOKEN')
deleted_count = mixpanel.people_delete(query_params={ 'selector' : 'user["$last_seen"]<"2019-01-01T00:00:00"'})
print(deleted_count)
Replace MIXPANEL_SECRET and MIXPANEL_TOKEN with your own project tokens.

Answer 4

Install Mixpanel Python API (Click Here)
pip install mixpanel-api
Create a python file : delete_people.py and copy and paste below code and perform changes as per your project configuration, i.e secret,token, filter params etc.
from mixpanel_api import Mixpanel
from datetime import datetime
now = datetime.now()
current_time = now.strftime("%Y_%m_%d_%H_%M_%S")
if __name__ == '__main__':
#Mixpanel Project :
credentials = {
'API_secret': '<Your API Secret>',
'token': '<Your API Token>',
}
# first we are going to make a Mixpanel object instance
mlive = Mixpanel(credentials['API_secret'])
# Mixpanel object with token to delete people
ilive = Mixpanel(credentials['API_secret'],credentials['token'])
#Prepare parameters for delete condition
#<filter_by_cohort_here> - Get from mixpanel explore UI, from engage api xhr call (https://mixpanel.com/api/2.0/engage)
parameters = {'filter_by_cohort':'<filter_by_cohort_here>','include_all_users':'true','limit':0}
# Backup data before deleting
print("\n Creating backup of data\n")
mlive.export_people('backup_people_'+current_time+'.json', parameters)
# Delete people using parameters filter
print("\n Backup Completed! Deleting Data\n")
ilive.people_delete(query_params=parameters)
print("\n Data Deleted Successfully\n")
Run below command from terminal
python delete_people.py
Note: people_delete method of mixpanel api will automatically create backup_timestamp.json file in same directory where you put this script