Use cases
Reporting
Weekly digests, leaderboards and partner reporting.
Weekly digest for an artist or label
Every Monday:
GET /analytics/dashboardfor the headline numbers and the dominant genre and mood.GET /analytics/top?metric=plays&since=<7 days ago>and again fordownloads.- Post the result to Slack, email, or a sheet.
Scope: read:analytics.
Per-release performance
For a release with a known set of track ids, call
GET /analytics/stats?entity=track&ids=… with
since set to the release date. Up to 50 ids per call.
Where a track went
Combine GET /tracks/submissions with the
stats above to see whether a pitch turned into listens.
Partner platform reporting
Partners that run file requests on Postal get a platform key and can pull:
- every file request with free and paid submission counts,
- per-request submission lists with a stable, anonymised submitter id,
- accounts acquired through each request.
Platform keys are read-only and issued by Postal.
Notes
- Engagement comes from the activity log and updates within seconds of the event.
- Date ranges are inclusive and in UTC.
- The dashboard's "this week" is the current calendar week, not a rolling 7 days.