The Scenario
A data governance lead is running an offline taxonomy review. The process: export PostHog's full event definition list — 120 events — into an Excel workbook, distribute it to the product and engineering team, have each person mark the events they own and write descriptions for ones in their domain. The problem: PostHog has no one-click export for event definitions. The governance lead opened the data management UI three hours ago and is still on event 48.
The bad version:
- Click each event in PostHog's data management list, open the detail view to see description and owner (not shown in the list), copy name, description, owner, is_action status, and 30-day volume into a workbook row
- Get through 60 events and realize the 30-day volume displayed in the UI doesn't clarify the timezone, so you write "unknown" for every volume entry
- Share the workbook after three sessions, receive updates from the team, realize there's no way to write updated descriptions back into PostHog without clicking through each event in the UI again
An offline review only works if the export is complete and the writeback is possible.
The Easy Way: One Prompt in SheetXAI
SheetXAI is an AI agent inside your Excel workbook. It calls PostHog's event definitions endpoint — handling all pagination — and writes the full taxonomy into your workbook in one operation. When the team sends updates back, it can write those too.
Fetch all event definitions in the PostHog project and write event name, description, owner name, is_action status, and volume 30-day count into columns A through E.
What You Get
- All 120 event definitions appear as rows — name, description, owner, is_action status, and 30-day volume
- No pagination cutoff, no missing events from deeper pages
- The workbook is immediately ready for team annotation and offline review
What If the Data Is Not Quite Ready
You want to write updated descriptions back
For each row in the 'Event Definitions Update' worksheet with a description in column B, update the PostHog event definition named in column A with the new description. Write 'Done' in column C after each successful update, and the error message for any that fail.
You want to flag events with no owner and no description
Fetch all PostHog event definitions and write name, description, and owner into columns A through C. In column D, write "Needs owner" for events with no owner, "Needs description" for no description, and "Needs both" for events missing both.
You want property definitions too
Fetch all PostHog property definitions and write property name, type, description, and associated event into columns A through D of the 'Property Taxonomy' worksheet. Flag any property with no description in column E.
Full governance audit with priority triage
Fetch all PostHog event definitions. Write name, description, owner, verification status, and 30-day volume into columns A through E. In column F, write triage priority: "High" for events with volume above 1000 and no description; "Medium" for 100-1000 volume and no description; "Low" for everything else missing a description. Sort by priority then by volume descending, write the result to the 'Taxonomy Triage' worksheet.
Export, flag, and prioritize in one prompt.
Try It
Get the 7-day free trial of SheetXAI and open an Excel workbook, ask it to pull your PostHog event taxonomy, and circulate it for offline review before the day is out. Related: Export All PostHog Saved Insights Into an Excel workbook and the PostHog hub.