Using the Visitor Tracking API

Businesses that have their own software solution or backend process that want to pull website visitor tracking results into their system can use Lead Liaison's visitor tracking API web services. In the example below, Learn more about the API here.

https://app.leadliaison.com/api-documentation/index.php#api-Visits-GetVisits (use visit ID)

https://app.leadliaison.com/api-documentation/index.php#api-Hits-GetHits

Querying the API

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.net.HttpURLConnection;
import java.net.MalformedURLException;
import java.net.ProtocolException;
import java.net.URL;
import java.util.ArrayList;
//get this org.json library from http://www.java2s.com/Code/JarDownload/java/java-json.jar.zip
import org.json.JSONArray;
import org.json.JSONException;
import org.json.JSONObject;

public class LeadLiaisonAPIClient {

    public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException, JSONException {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
        StringBuffer content = getRestResponse(
                "https://api-url/v1.0/visits.json?api_key=PUT_KEY_HERE&from_date=2018-03-01&include_prospect_info=1");

        JSONObject jsonObject = new JSONObject(content.toString());
        JSONArray records = (JSONArray) jsonObject.get("records");

        //ArrayList<Integer> vistorList = new ArrayList<Integer>();

        for (int i = 0; i < records.length(); i++) {
            //vistorList.add(records.getJSONObject(i).getInt("visitor_id"));
            StringBuffer hitRep = getRestResponse(
                    "https://api-url/v1.0/hits.json?api_key=PUT_KEY_HERE&visit_id="
                            + records.getJSONObject(i).getInt("visitor_id"));
            //System.out.println(hitRep);
        }

    }

    private static StringBuffer getRestResponse(String urlString)
            throws MalformedURLException, IOException, ProtocolException {
        URL url = new URL(urlString);
        HttpURLConnection con = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
        con.setRequestMethod("GET");

        int responseCode = con.getResponseCode();
        if (responseCode != 200)
            throw new RuntimeException("ResponseCode: " + responseCode);
        else {
            
            BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(con.getInputStream()));
            String inputLine;
            StringBuffer content = new StringBuffer();
            while ((inputLine = in.readLine()) != null) {
                content.append(inputLine);
            }
            in.close();
            con.disconnect();
            return content;
        }
    }
}