examples

PostHog Go Examples

The examples demonstrate different features of the PostHog Go client.

Running the examples

# Set your PostHog API keys
export POSTHOG_PROJECT_API_KEY="your-project-api-key"
export POSTHOG_PERSONAL_API_KEY="your-personal-api-key"

# Run all examples
go run *.go

This will run:

• Feature flags example
• Capture events example
• Capture events with feature flag options example

Prerequisites

Before running the examples, you'll need to:

1. Have a PostHog instance running (default: http://localhost:8000)

   • You can modify the endpoint in the example code if your instance is running elsewhere

2. Set up the following feature flags in your PostHog instance:

   • multivariate-test (a multivariate flag)
   • simple-test (a simple boolean flag)
   • multivariate-simple-test (a multivariate flag)
   • my_secret_flag_value (a remote config flag with string payload)
   • my_secret_flag_json_object_value (a remote config flag with JSON object payload)
   • my_secret_flag_json_array_value (a remote config flag with JSON array payload)

3. Set your PostHog API keys as environment variables:

   • POSTHOG_PROJECT_API_KEY: Your project API key (starts with phc_...)
   • POSTHOG_PERSONAL_API_KEY: Your personal API key (starts with phx_...)