I want to create a SaaS, for this I need my customers' Google Analytics data. Can I do this? Is something like this possible? I found the Management API, but I don't know if I can do it, I don't even understand it. Thanks
In order to request Google analytics data you need to use serval different apis. But the first thing you need to understand is that there are two versions of google analytics these days Universal analytics and Ga4. They are not interchangeable.
Universal analytics
The management api will give you access to see what universal analytics google analytics accounts that the user has access to. This is just the accounts and users. It is not the data itself within a universal analytics account.
To see the data within a universal analytics account you need to use the Google analytics reporting api. This api will allow you to extract universal analytics data on behalf of your users.
Ga4
As for the GA4 accounts. you would need to use the Google analytics admin api to access account information. The Google analytics data api will give you access to the data within a GA4 account.
Note: at the time of writing both of the GA4 apis are still in Beta.
authorization.
All of these systems will require that you have the consent of a user on the account in order to access their data. So you will need to implement Oauth2 authentication and request access with the appropriate google analytics scope.
Management API is irrelevant. If you need the data, you need the Reporting API. It's here: https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/reporting/core/v4
It requires OAuth 2.0 authentication. Here's more on it: https://developers.google.com/identity/protocols/oauth2
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What is the difference between Google Analytics Reporting API, Google Analytics API, and Google Analytics Data API? What I need is to report on the data for a 3rd party site/account, but it sounds like all 3 of these APIs are for reporting on data. Could you advise? I've been looking through their docs and they all still sound the same.
Analytics hub is for big query.
Google analytics reporting api - Gives access to extract data from Universal analytics accounts
Google analytics api - is a little harder to nail down. It almost sounds like it gives access to extract data and and configure google analytics data. Which would imply that its management api for for universal analytics Google analytics admin api and possibly the reporting api as well.
Google analytics data api - used to extract data from Google analytics ga4 accounts
What I need is to report on the data for a 3rd party site/account
Im not sure what you mean by this. None of those are for sending data to google analytics. To send data to google analytics. you would use one of the collection options.
So we are using Reporting V3 API in our custom dashboard to retrieve custom reports from multiple GA properties. Now some of our customers have GA4 properties which doesn't show up in properties list. Question is, to support both versions (GA3 and GA4) the only alternative now is to use Reporting V3 and Data API for different properties or did we miss something and there's one API which can be used for both GA versions?
There are two versions of Google analytics now Universal analytics and GA4 they are completely different and have different APIs designed for each one.
Google analytics reporting api allows you to access data from Universal analytics accounts.
Google Analytics GA4 is a completely different system and is not supported by the reporting api to access data behind a GA4 account you will need to use the Google analytics data api
there is also the Google analytics admin API which is the equivalent for the Management api for GA4. so if you want to be able to list a customers GA4 accounts you will need to use that api as well.
Note: The admin api is currently in alpha, and the data api is currently in beta. Take that into account before developing production applications using these apis.
I am trying to use Multi-Channel Funnels Reporting API with a GA4 account, but since there is no viewid parameter in GA4 I cant call the API.
I have tried to use propertid instead of viewid but I come up to a insufficientPermissions 403 error.
I also cant find any documentation about the migration of MCF API to the new GA4.
The call i am making is to
https://www.googleapis.com/analytics/v3/data/mcf?access_token=TOKEN&ids=ga:189118519&start-date=2020-11-23&end-date=2020-11-29&metrics=mcf%3AtotalConversions%2Cmcf%3AtotalConversionValue&dimensions=mcf%3AsourcePath&filters=mcf%3AconversionGoalNumber%3D%3D001&samplingLevel=HIGHER_PRECISION&max-results=10000
You need to understand that universal analytics and GA4 are completely different systems. They can not be compared, and an api that worked on universal analytics does not support GA4
The call you are making is to the Multi-Channel Funnels Reporting API Works with universal analytics.
To my knowledge there is no equivalate yet that works with GA4 accounts
For GA4 we currently have two bata APIs, which are subject to change often.
Data api equivalent to the reporting api v4 for universal analytics.
Admin api GA4 equivalent to the management api for universal analytics
To my knowledge there is no MCF api for GA4
I need to get following google campaign data for the user visiting our website from google analytics and pass the data to another application
Campaign Content
Campaign Medium
Campaign Name
Campaign Source
Campaign Term
Found this google analytics API for user activity. https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/reporting/core/v4/user-reporting
Does it provide real time data? Is there another API which we can use to get this information real time for the user based on the google analytics User_ID or Client_ID?
Real-time traffic source information is unavailable via Analytics APIs. Also using APIs for this purpose would be hardly practical because of API limitations and quotas.
You might get some very close results with alternatives like sourcebuster.js but note that this wouldn't provide you with Google Ads synced data
I want to track my site visitors and i think google analytics is fulfill my requirement but i want to access complete google analytics from my server how's this possible.
Look at the API here
http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/gdata/gdataDeveloperGuide.html and http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/gdata/gdataLibraries.html