I am using Google Analytics 4. I have created the json file for the service account, and got the email address. This email was added to my users as Admin in the Account Access Management, yet I am still getting the error that I do not have sufficient permissions for this profile.
Any idea what am I doing wrong please?
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When trying to pull GA4 data from the api, it says the user doesn't have permission. I'm having no issues with the UA accounts.
However, my GA4 accounts are both:
tied to the same account as my Universal accounts
the api service email account is also attached to those account.
I'm wondering if perhaps the property id isn't what i use for ga4, as I did for the Univsal code.
Has anyone had this issue?
I have tried using both the property ID, the Stream ID and the Measurement ID with no luck.
user doesn't have permission
means exactly that the user you are authenticating with does not have permission to access the google analytics account you are trying to access.
You need to go into the GA4 account via the admin section on the website and grant it access
Its under property and access management, add the service account in there.
Hi generated secret file using OAuth 2.0 client ID. In that secret file, I do not see any google mail address to authenticate or access permissions to that mail address. Still facing below error.
Arg, there was an API error : 403 : User does not have sufficient permissions for this profile.
How come I know, to which user, we do not have sufficient previliges?
Please help me with this
You have created an Oauth2 client for use with your application. When the application runs a user will need to login using their Google account and grant the application (client) access to their data. I have an article that explains how google oauth2 works if you are interested. Oauth2 for beginners
User does not have sufficient permissions for this profile.
Means that the user you have authenticated with does not have access to the Google Analytics profile you are trying to request data form. Try doing an Accountsummires.list this will return a list of the Google Analytics accounts that the current authenticated user has access to and the ones you will be able to request data from.
Question: How come I know, to which user, we do not have sufficient privileges?
You have a profile id you are trying to access find someone who has access to that profile and have them run your application. When they have logged in and authenticated they will be able to see the data.
I am trying to create a simple node app and I using service account to automate the OAuth Flow. While am able to successfully do this, am not able to retrieve the report from Google Analytics using this service account. I get the following error message,
{
"error": {
"code": 403,
"message": "User does not have any Google Analytics account.",
"status": "PERMISSION_DENIED"
}
}
I can't add this service account to the Analytics account as my owner account (under which I created this service account) has only read-only access. So how do I proceed? How can I grant this service account the same read-only access as my owner account? When I login into Google Analytics using my owner account, I am not able to perform any User Management as it has limited access.
Please help me on how to proceed here.
Thanks
If using a service account, there is no way to proceed other than finding someone with user management permissions and have him add the account.
It is hard to see why you would expect it to be otherwise; the purpose of the permission system is to prevent unauthorized access, and it would do a pretty poor job if it suddenly allowed you to exceed your privileges by adding a user.
As per the answer from Eike, you cannot add a Service Account if you lack the permissions to do so.
There is an alternative approach which allows you to use your own account, i.e. no service accounts anywhere. This basically involves you obtaining a Refresh Token, and using that to authenticate your access. You can follow the steps at How do I authorise an app (web or installed) without user intervention? (canonical ?) to do this.
I want to be able to access other users Google Calendars through a service account so I am not prompted for authorization. I am doing this in a simple .net c# console app. When I attempt to create my credentials in the Google API Manager, it gives me the following alert when I specify I am using a non UI app and I want to access User Data. Isn't the purpose of using the service account to access other users data without a UI?
"User data cannot be accessed from a platform without a UI because it requires user interaction for sign-in."
You may have misunderstood the meaning of using a service account to impersonate a user. To help you with Authentication, you might want to check this tutorial : Google Calendar API Authentication with C# by Daimto.
Things to take note of :
To be able to access other calendars by service account, users who own the calendar should share it to the service account.
To impersonate a user, you must know the email address.
From the tutorial:
If you are only accessing data that you own there is no reason to ask a user for permission to access it. You can use a Service account. (Privacy)
If you want to be able to access data owned by someone else you will need to be authenticated.
Hope this helps!
I am writing a small program to retrieve and display Google Analytics information. I keep getting a 403 Forbidden error because of insufficient permissions.
I read on other posts that you have to add the email address associated with the client id you are using to access analytics in User Management.
The client id I am using however is associated with an installed application and doesn't have an email address, it only lists a client id, client secret, and redirect Urls as credentials in the developer's console.
How can I allow access for this client id when there is no associated email address listed in the developer's console to grant permissions to on the User Management page in Google Analytics?
Simply follow Google's OAuth 2.0 guide for installed applications.
Create a URL for authorization like you would for a web app. Only set redirect_uri to urn:ietf:wg:oauth:2.0:oob.
Point your user to this URL and let him authorize your app. Then the user will receive a code.
Prompt the user to enter this code in your app and use it to retrieve a refresh token from Google.
Store the refresh token and use it to get a fresh access token whenever you need one.