Method: properties.audienceLists.create

Creates an audience list for later retrieval. This method quickly returns the audience list's resource name and initiates a long running asynchronous request to form an audience list. To list the users in an audience list, first create the audience list through this method and then send the audience resource name to the audienceLists.query method.

See Creating an Audience List for an introduction to Audience Lists with examples.

An audience list is a snapshot of the users currently in the audience at the time of audience list creation. Creating audience lists for one audience on different days will return different results as users enter and exit the audience.

Audiences in Google Analytics 4 allow you to segment your users in the ways that are important to your business. To learn more, see https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/9267572. Audience lists contain the users in each audience.

This method is introduced at alpha stability with the intention of gathering feedback on syntax and capabilities before entering beta. To give your feedback on this API, complete the Google Analytics Audience Export API Feedback form.

HTTP request

POST https://analyticsdata.googleapis.com/v1alpha/{parent=properties/*}/audienceLists

The URL uses gRPC Transcoding syntax.

Path parameters

Parameters
parent

string

Required. The parent resource where this audience list will be created. Format: properties/{property}

Request body

The request body contains an instance of AudienceList.

Response body

This resource represents a long-running operation that is the result of a network API call.

If successful, the response body contains data with the following structure:

JSON representation 
{
  "name": string,
  "metadata": {
    "@type": string,
    field1: ...,
    ...
  },
  "done": boolean,

  // Union field result can be only one of the following:
  "error": {
    object (Status)
  },
  "response": {
    "@type": string,
    field1: ...,
    ...
  }
  // End of list of possible types for union field result.
}
Fields
name

string

The server-assigned name, which is only unique within the same service that originally returns it. If you use the default HTTP mapping, the name should be a resource name ending with operations/{unique_id}.
metadata

object

Service-specific metadata associated with the operation. It typically contains progress information and common metadata such as create time. Some services might not provide such metadata. Any method that returns a long-running operation should document the metadata type, if any.

An object containing fields of an arbitrary type. An additional field "@type" contains a URI identifying the type. Example: { "id": 1234, "@type": "types.example.com/standard/id" }.
done

boolean

If the value is false, it means the operation is still in progress. If true, the operation is completed, and either error or response is available.
Union field result. The operation result, which can be either an error or a valid response. If done == false, neither error nor response is set. If done == true, exactly one of error or response can be set. Some services might not provide the result. result can be only one of the following:
error

object (Status)

The error result of the operation in case of failure or cancellation.
response

object

The normal, successful response of the operation. If the original method returns no data on success, such as Delete, the response is google.protobuf.Empty. If the original method is standard Get/Create/Update, the response should be the resource. For other methods, the response should have the type XxxResponse, where Xxx is the original method name. For example, if the original method name is TakeSnapshot(), the inferred response type is TakeSnapshotResponse.

An object containing fields of an arbitrary type. An additional field "@type" contains a URI identifying the type. Example: { "id": 1234, "@type": "types.example.com/standard/id" }.

Authorization scopes

Requires one of the following OAuth scopes:

  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/analytics.readonly
  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/analytics

Status

The Status type defines a logical error model that is suitable for different programming environments, including REST APIs and RPC APIs. It is used by gRPC. Each Status message contains three pieces of data: error code, error message, and error details.

You can find out more about this error model and how to work with it in the API Design Guide.

JSON representation 
{
  "code": integer,
  "message": string,
  "details": [
    {
      "@type": string,
      field1: ...,
      ...
    }
  ]
}
Fields
code

integer

The status code, which should be an enum value of google.rpc.Code.
message

string

A developer-facing error message, which should be in English. Any user-facing error message should be localized and sent in the google.rpc.Status.details field, or localized by the client.
details[]

object

A list of messages that carry the error details. There is a common set of message types for APIs to use.

An object containing fields of an arbitrary type. An additional field "@type" contains a URI identifying the type. Example: { "id": 1234, "@type": "types.example.com/standard/id" }.