Migrate to the Google Analytics Admin API for User Deletion

The legacy Google Analytics User Deletion API (v3) has been sunset along with Universal Analytics. The Google Analytics Admin API (v1alpha) provides a replacement SubmitUserDeletion method to request data deletion for users in Google Analytics properties.

Do I need to migrate?

If your code is still calling the upsert method of the legacy User Deletion API (v3), you must migrate to the Google Analytics Admin API to perform user deletions for your Google Analytics properties.

Migration steps

Follow these steps to start using the new SubmitUserDeletion method.

Enable the Google Analytics Admin API

Click the following Enable the Google Analytics Admin API button to select or create a new Google Cloud project and automatically enable the Google Analytics Admin API.

Enable the Google Analytics Admin API

Find and replace calls to the legacy User Deletion API

Replace any calls to the legacy upsert method of the legacy User Deletion API with calls to the new SubmitUserDeletion method of the Google Analytics Admin API.

Example upsert request to the legacy User Deletion API:

REST

  POST https://analytics.googleapis.com/analytics/v3/userDeletion/userDeletionRequests:upsert
  {
    "propertyId": "1234567",
    "id": {
      "type": "USER_ID",
      "userId": "user123"
    }
  }

Example of an equivalent SubmitUserDeletion request of the Google Analytics Admin API:

REST

  POST https://analyticsadmin.googleapis.com/v1alpha/properties/1234567:submitUserDeletion
  {
    "userId": "user123"
  }

Update requested OAuth scopes

The new SubmitUserDeletion of the Google Analytics Admin API uses the scope https://www.googleapis.com/auth/analytics.edit.

This is different from the legacy User Deletion API, which used the https://www.googleapis.com/auth/analytics.user.deletion scope.

You should update any code or access token request commands that are using https://www.googleapis.com/auth/analytics.user.deletion to request https://www.googleapis.com/auth/analytics.edit instead.

If you are using a client library, it should request the necessary scopes automatically.

Disable the legacy API

Once you have updated your code to use the SubmitUserDeletion method, you are ready to disable the legacy API in your Google Cloud project.

Open the following link to open the legacy Universal Analytics API endpoint in your Google Cloud Console. Select your Cloud Project and click the Disable API button.