Do something in 5 with gas 4- Get your analytics profiles to a spreadsheet
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Another in the 'do something useful with Google Apps Script' series. This time you'll see how to use the Analytics service and use exponential backoff to mitigate for quota rate limiting.
Transcript of Do something in 5 with gas 4- Get your analytics profiles to a spreadsheet
do something useful with Apps Script in 5 minutes
4. Analytics property data to a sheetBruce McPhersonwww.mcpher.com
Snippet objectives● Use the lessons learned in ‘using a spreadsheet as a
database’● Gets the properties information for all your analytics
profiles● Shows how to avoid rate limit exceeded problems● Flattens and writes it all to a sheet
Libraries used
● database abstraction● driver sheet● useful stuff
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/10rEyXjHxo42YV3wRW46o-CgrAZxFqUxyftHPkjLtbt8/edit?usp=sharing
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/10rEyXjHxo42YV3wRW46o-CgrAZxFqUxyftHPkjLtbt8/edit?usp=sharing
Add libraries to script
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Add analytics service
in advanced services, enable analytics
Enable analytics on cloud console
layout what you are going to dofunction myFunction() {
// open spreadsheet as database
// get all know analytics properties
// write to the sheet
}
write function to get properties - 1
First step - the analytics service is rate limited, so we have to handle retries using exponential backoff. You’ll find that in the cUseful library. Create a wrapper for the code we’re about to add
function findAllProperties () {
// find all the properties belonging to you
return cUseful.rateLimitExpBackoff( function () {
var am = Analytics.Management;
});
}
extend function get all accounts
function findAllProperties () {
// find all the properties belonging to you
return cUseful.rateLimitExpBackoff( function () {
var am = Analytics.Management;
return (am.Accounts.list().items || []).reduce (function(p,account) {
p.push(account);
return p;
},[]);
});
}
second step - Loop through all your accounts to get the account records and use the account id to find the webproperties
extend function get webproperties
function findAllProperties () {
// find all the properties belonging to you
return cUseful.rateLimitExpBackoff( function () {
var am = Analytics.Management;
return (am.Accounts.list().items || []).reduce (function(p,account) {
(am.Webproperties.list(account.id).items || []).forEach(function(webProperty) {
p.push(webProperty);
});
return p;
},[]);
});
}
third step - Loop through all the webproperties for each account id
extend function get profiles
function findAllProperties () {
// find all the properties belonging to you
return cUseful.rateLimitExpBackoff( function () {
var am = Analytics.Management;
return (am.Accounts.list().items || []).reduce (function(p,account) {
(am.Webproperties.list(account.id).items || []).forEach(function(webProperty) {
(am.Profiles.list(account.id,webProperty.id).items || [] ).forEach( function (profile) {
p.push(profile);
});
});
return p;
},[]);
});
}
finally - Loop through all the profiles for each webproperties.id
write everything to a sheet
// write to the sheet after deleting current contents
var result = sheetHandle.remove();
if (result.handleCode < 0 ) throw JSON.stringify(result);
var result = sheetHandle.save(properties);
if (result.handleCode < 0 ) throw JSON.stringify(result);
Array data will be flattened as required to fit in 2d sheet
Here’s the whole thing function myFunction() {
// open spreadsheet as database
var sheetHandle = new cDbAbstraction.DbAbstraction (cDriverSheet, {
siloid:'analytics',
dbid:'19tZRW5CxA4V0kjJX8yAXAGGjzvVZ1433vz-NmBIBt7U'
});
if (!sheetHandle.isHappy()) throw 'unable to open sheet';
// get all know analytics properties
var properties = findAllProperties();
// write to the sheet after deleting current contents
var result = sheetHandle.remove();
if (result.handleCode < 0 ) throw JSON.stringify(result);
var result = sheetHandle.save(properties);
if (result.handleCode < 0 ) throw JSON.stringify(result);
}
take a look at the sheetYou’ll find a row for each accounts profile you own
Further homework
● Now you know how to find your internal analytics IDs, try using the Analytics service to do some queries
Follow up materials
Take a copy of this scriptTake a copy of these slidesJoin me on G+, or the G+ communityMore on desktop liberationMore on database abstractionMore on Analytics instrumentationMore 5 minute things
