More controls to session recording - URL and/or event patterns

[marandaneto]

Is your feature request related to a problem?

https://posthoghelp.zendesk.com/agent/tickets/9754
https://posthog.com/questions/question-113

You can only control session recording based on URL and event pattern programmatically.

Describe the solution you'd like

Start recording when a URL is visited, this is configured using Glob patterns via project config.
Start recording when certain events are captured, this is configured via project config.

Describe alternatives you've considered

Start recording when a feature flag is active is possible, see this section and this one of the docs (requires cost control enabled).
Start recording when a URL is visited is possible programmatically, see this section of the docs.
Start recording when an event is triggered is possible programmatically, see this section of the docs.

Additional context

Thank you for your feature request – we love each and every one!

[valavalkar]

Recording when specific UTM params are passed would be super helpful for tracking the behavior of users that come in from a particular advertising campaign.

[jasondainter]

Would also love to see this!

[pauldambra]

URL blocklist coming in PostHog/posthog-js#1500
URL allowlist was merged in PostHog/posthog-js#1451