Is there a way to connect web analytics history of users with contacts that were added via API?

[bsjut]

Hi colleagues, 

my understanding is that the best practice to connect the web analytics history to a contact in Hubspot is to submit that user 

a) via the Form Submit API and

b) submit the hutk token along with that request

We have a client however, that stored the hutk toke value in their own backend - but sent the contacts to Hubspot through the API via the "Add Contact" endpoint. 

What is the best practice to connect the web analytics history here after the fact? 

• Should there be a Form Submit API call to add that?  (Can Form API Submit Calls be backdated, even potentially years? 
• Is there another way to simply patch the contact with the hutk information serverside? 

Would be really interested in learning the best practice here.

[dennisedson · Accepted solution]

@bsjut 

Via the forms api would be the recommended route.  You can change the timestamp of  the submission to whatever you want.  I have not seen a past date limit (let us know if you do 😉)