I would like to find who developed a certain data platform though the funder of the platform does not include information regarding the developer on its webpage.
I searched the webpage and did a general google research but was not able to find information online.
I've read much about implementing LinkedIn into my website, but is it possible to upload job offers from an external software directly to LinkedIn?
I’m working with an SAP based recruiting management software. One of the function it is capable of, is to create job offers. But until now, they are only internal. I want to implement a function, which allows the user to automatically upload a job offer to LinkedIn.
Does LinkedIn provide some kind of support for such kind of work? XING for example, offers you documentations for a connection via API or XML. Is there something additional existing for LinkedIn?
Looks like it isn't available for the normal APIs. They have a specific section based on their "Talent Solutions" that may be of interest. Looks to be a paid program
https://developer.linkedin.com/partner-programs/talent
So Google Analytics does not have an API that we can use to get our data, so is there an efficient way to programaticly fetch the data collected by Google, without logging it locally?
Edit:
I would prefer a Python or PHP solution but anything will work.
Google just announced that they're making available a data export API for Google Analytics. It sounds like that's exactly what you're looking for.
Per their announcement, the feature's currently in private beta, but I figure it'll be rolled out to all accounts in coming weeks/months. Depending on your needs, you may just want to wait, instead of building a short-term hackish solution.
If you're interested, I presume that the functionality's being rolled out first to members of the Google Analytics Trusted Tester program.
Also, I forgot about this: I never actually completely implemented this for a client because the deal fell through...
But you can customize the dashboard to include the sections of Google Analytics that your report might need and have a scheduled email. If the reports do not need to be too detailed and if Google already aggregates the data in the way you need it, then this might work for you.
The Google Analytics API is now open to everyone and looks like it contains the full data set
Well, it depends on what you want to do with the data. If you only want to process part of it, then I don't think it is difficult.
Here's a basic web search with a hit explanations from Google and someone else:
http://www.google.com/support/analytics/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=55561
http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2008-01-17-n73.html
There is a completely programmatic way to access the data using greqo(PHP), but the analytics class is in beta. Check it out here.
If beta is not acceptable, you can use a mixture of the XML and Yahoo Pipes to get what you need.
Basic Method
Obtain the tracking data in a usable
format – We can schedule Google
Analytics to email this as an XML file
on a regular basis.
Make the XML file accessible online –
By emailing an attachment to Google
Groups, the file is automatically
given a public URL.
Work out the URL of the most recent
report – Since Google Groups provides
RSS/Atom feeds for all messages, we
can easily find the URL of the most
recent message and therefore work out
the URL of the XML report.
Prepare the data for use – We need to
manipulate the XML and massage it into
a handy JSON format that we can use on
our blog, which can all be done using
Yahoo Pipes.
Taken from here.
I implemented a solution where we scheduled the analytics report to be emailed to a gmail account each day and I pulled the report on demand via POP3. It's pretty easy and works fast. I've heard Epic1 will do this for you as well. I'm researching that now.
If you're using Python, Pandas io is also very helpful. Pandas has an interface on top of the Google Analytics API. It's pretty simple to get up and running and integrates with Pandas so you get the aggregation, time series features, and other data analysis library features.
instructions on how to authenticate and shows examples: http://blog.yhathq.com/posts/pandas-google-analytics.html
more examples: http://quantabee.wordpress.com/2012/12/17/google-analytics-pandas/
I've also posted a few queries to get started
https://github.com/sk8asd123/ga_pandas
Its been a while since I had to deal with this, but Google Analytics has an XML output type, so you can parse that to get the data in your own system. However, I believe that there is no way to get the xml file programatically, so someone still has to go in and generate the file and feed it to your app.
Good question though, I'd love to see if there is a 100% automated solution.
We just released a product - Megalytic - that makes it very easy to create custom reports using data from the Google Analytics API. You can email these reports to others without sharing your Google Analytics account. Also, create links to reports, download as PDF, etc.
I'm looking for a guide to interpreting results from Google Analytics. Also is there an API for accessing the data?
I'm looking for a guide to interpreting results from Google Analytics.
I like Advanced Web Metrics; it's come in quite handy. Recommended if you're at least somewhat familiar with analytics packages in general. Otherwise pick something a little simpler, like Google Analytics 2.0.
Also is there an API for accessing the data?
You can find the API here
Google released an Analytics API on Apr 21, 2009. As usual with Google, there are a few caveats:
It is in "public beta". Everyone can use it, but they reserve the right to modify the API at any time.
Most, but not all metrics and dimensions are available. You can mostly ignore this fact until you start doing advanced combinations.
Read-only access.
They provide full developer documentation and an Analytics API Google Group for discussion.
http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/
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As a new SO user, I can't add any relevant links for this answer, so feel free to edit this post and add them in.
Do you know if it's possible to build an application for the LinkedIn platform?
Yes, they have API at http://developer.linkedin.com/index.jspa, allowing access to the profile, connections, messaging and more.
While LinkedIn has promised a public API for a very long time now, they have yet to deliver.
No, there is no public LinkedIn API yet.
IMO, their widgets (which there are only two of at the moment, which are very limited) don't count.
They say that they are open to being contacted with specific uses for their API and they may give access to parts as needed - but that is if they accept your ideas for integration. They have been very picky with this - and have not accepted my attempts to integrate with LinkedIn yet, they tell me I have to wait with everyone else, apparently my applications are not "high-profile" enough.
Sure, you'll find many Google results talking about their "promised" API, but they are empty promises and won't be of much help.
Yes, Linkedin has an API:
http://www.programmableweb.com/api/linkedin
http://blog.linkedin.com/blog/2007/12/the-intelligent.html
So you could build an application that uses it.
Update: (from second link)
We’ll be phasing all of this in over the coming months and to get involved with the Intelligent Application Platform either for APIs, widgets, or hosted applications, send us an e-mail to developers#linkedin.com telling us what you want to build and what you need to build it.
Since there are published Mashups using LinkedIn I would assume that means you can use the API even if the documentation isn't readily available.
As a tip, in the future include links to what you found that didn't work, so we know not to give it to you again.
I poked around a bit more and I found some more on their widgets which appears to be the main focus of their API.