get_usage: Get usage information for deployed content

In connectapi: Utilities for Interacting with the 'Posit Connect' Server API

Get usage information for deployed content

Description

Retrieve content hits for all available content on the server. Available content depends on the user whose API key is in use. Administrator accounts will receive data for all content on the server. Publishers will receive data for all content they own or collaborate on.

If no date-times are provided, all usage data will be returned.

Usage

get_usage(client, from = NULL, to = NULL)

Arguments

client	A Connect R6 client object.
from	Optional date-time (POSIXct or POSIXlt). Only records after this time are returned. If not provided, records are returned back to the first record available.
to	Optional date-time (POSIXct or POSIXlt). Only records before this time are returned. If not provided, all records up to the most recent are returned.

Details

The data returned by get_usage() includes all content types. For Shiny content, the timestamp indicates the start of the Shiny session. Additional fields for Shiny and non-Shiny are available respectively from get_usage_shiny() and get_usage_static(). get_usage_shiny() includes a field for the session end time; get_usage_static() includes variant, rendering, and bundle identifiers for the visited content.

When possible, however, we recommend using get_usage() over get_usage_static() or get_usage_shiny(), as it is faster and more efficient.

Value

A list of usage records. Each record is a list with all elements as character strings unless otherwise specified.

• id: An integer identifier for the hit.

• user_guid: The user GUID if the visitor is logged-in, NULL for anonymous hits.

• content_guid: The GUID of the visited content.

• timestamp: The time of the hit in RFC3339 format.

• data: A nested list with optional fields:

  • path: The request path (if recorded).

  • user_agent: The user agent string (if available).

Use as.data.frame() or tibble::as_tibble() to convert to a flat table with parsed types. In the resulting data frame:

• timestamp is parsed to POSIXct.

• path and user_agent are extracted from the nested data field.

By default, as.data.frame() attempts to extract the nested fields using the tidyr package. If tidyr is not available, or if you want to skip unnesting, call as.data.frame(x, unnest = FALSE) to leave data as a list-column.

See Also

as.data.frame.connect_list_hits(), as_tibble.connect_list_hits()

Examples

## Not run: 
client <- connect()

# Fetch the last 2 days of hits
usage <- get_usage(client, from = Sys.Date() - 2, to = Sys.Date())

# Fetch usage after a specified date and convert to a data frame.
usage <- get_usage(
  client,
  from = as.POSIXct("2025-05-02 12:40:00", tz = "UTC")
)

# Fetch all usage
usage <- get_usage(client)

# Convert to tibble or data frame
usage_df <- tibble::as_tibble(usage)

# Skip unnesting if tidyr is not installed
usage_df <- as.data.frame(usage, unnest = FALSE)

## End(Not run)

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