I have a JS library which is used by some users. I am going to track some behaviours from user using the library. I tried to configure a property on Google Analytics, however, it seems I should configure a URL for a website, an ID for an ios or an Android application.
How can I use Google Analytics in my library? Or can GA be used for this purpose?
Thanks
Google Analytics is a web analytics tool. So you won't be able to track your JS library with GA.
If you Google “Google Analytics,” the description provided is as following:
Google Analytics lets you measure your advertising ROI and track your Flash, video, and social networking sites and applications.
JS libraries are not part of the use cases.
Also, Google “Track JS Library Google Analytics.” As you can see, you’ll only get references to libraries such as gtag.js or analytics.js, which will not serve your purpose of tracking your library.
And ask yourself, will people use your JS library when they know you are tracking them? I don't think so. Instead, create a repo on GitHub with documentation and allow users to report issues.
Also, create a mailing list with users and execute small surveys to understand better how people are using your JS library.
I've searching a lot about someway to embed Firebase Analytics from my apps data into the backend UI from my website.
Is it possible to automate this process through some specific API methods to show those metrics from my Firebase Apps (like the number of installations or even the audience data)?
Thanks in advance!
Update: There now is an API to retrieve the analytics report data. See my answer here for details: Is there any api for dashboard analytics data?
The other two options are:
Use the "Export to CSV" option for the analytics in the Firebase console. This is a manual operation though, there is no public API.
Link your Firebase project to BigQuery, to automatically export the data and then use for example Data Studio to generate the charts you want.
i'm developing a windows desktop gadget for Google Analytics and I want to retrieve the data from Google Analytics.
Is there a way to get the data from Google Analytics in any form by any method?
prefered methods would be Javascript or Jquery.
thanks in advance :D
The Google Analytics Core reporting API is what you are looking for.
A handy JavaScript tool is available with the embed API.
Basically I have an admin CP I've coded for all my sites and I'd love to integrate the information gathered by Google Analytics on it to avoid having to look at both sites every morning.
BTW I'm using PHP, but I would assume if something like this exists it would just be exported as XML.
Nope.
Here's how to use Yahoo Pipes to scrape your Analytics page
Alternatively, you can export reports and use them
There's an official API in private beta. I'm looking forward to it!
http://analytics.blogspot.com/2008/10/more-enterprise-class-features-added-to.html
Nicolas Lierman has developed an AIR application that uses an API of his own creation to gather Google analytics data. He refuses to puplish the API though as apparently it exposes some severe security flaws in Analytics interface. Google themselves have never published an API for it.
If you really want to proceed with your plan, you'll have to reverse engineer the interface yourself.
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.