Segment Event Tracker

Send one Track event to a Segment source. Use an existing application user ID or leave it empty to generate a new anonymous identity for the run.

Setup

Select your Segment write-key connection in Track event in Segment. Use a source in the US region; both formats send to https://api.segment.io/v1/track. EU sources require a different endpoint.

In Open Flow, run with an Event name and optional User ID. In n8n, select Segment credentials in Segment, replace YOUR_EVENT_NAME, and leave User ID empty for the source’s anonymous behavior or enter an existing application user ID. Run manually after setup.

With no user ID, each run generates one UUID and sends it as anonymousId. A later run gets a different identity. With a user ID, the workflow sends that exact ID and omits anonymousId. No traits, event properties, destination overrides or explicit timestamps are configured. Segment applies the source’s destination settings and server timestamp.

The Open Flow output reports the Action’s HTTP acceptance flag, status and raw API response; n8n returns the raw response. A successful HTTP response does not confirm downstream destination delivery. Use Segment’s Debugger to inspect received events and delivery.

Each manual run sends another event. The workflow keeps no event history and supplies no explicit message ID for retry deduplication. Errors stop the run without an automatic retry. Check Segment before retrying an uncertain request.

Changes to the source

• Require an event name as an Open Flow run input and replace n8n’s empty event with a setup placeholder.
• Preserve the source’s fresh anonymous UUID when User ID is empty.
• Expose the HTTP acceptance result in Open Flow.

Adapted from Track an event in Segment in Zie619/n8n-workflows. The source export does not identify a separate template author or license.

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