Plausible automated and unattended installation support (create user and web site by script)

[stephane-klein]

Hello,

I would like to install and configure Plausible automatically via a script.

Does Plausible support automated and unattended installation?

I'd like to be able to create by script :

• A new user
• Add a website

Do you know if this feature is already available?

If not, what do you think about creating an issue to implement this feature?

Best regards,
Stéphane

[ruslandoga]

👋 @stephane-klein

There is no easy way to do it right now. But you might be able to write a script still, since Plausible supports RPC, e.g.:

$ docker compose exec plausible bin/plausible rpc 'IO.puts("hello")'
hello

[ruslandoga]

Some relevant functions / modules:

• https://github.com/plausible/analytics/blob/master/lib/plausible/sites.ex#L178-L206
• https://github.com/plausible/analytics/blob/master/lib/plausible_web/live/register_form.ex

Creating a user would be something like

Plausible.Repo.insert!(Plausible.Auth.User.new(params))

You can also combine the two repo calls in a single translation.

Plausible.Repo.transaction(fn ->
  user = Plausible.Repo.insert!(Plausible.Auth.User.new(user_params))
  {:ok, site} = Plausible.Sites.create_site(user, site_params)
  IO.inspect(user, label: "user")
  IO.inspect(site, label: "site")
end)