Analytics Service

The Analytics service allows you to use the Google Analytics Management API and Reporting APIs in Apps Script. These APIs gives Analytics users the ability to get information about the structure of their account and run reports on how it is performing.

Reference

For detailed information on this service, see the reference documentation for the various Google Analytics APIs:

Like all advanced services in Apps Script, the Analytics service uses the same objects, methods, and parameters as the public API. For more information, see How method signatures are determined.

To report issues and find other support, see the corresponding support pages:

Sample code

The sample code below version 3 of the Management API.

List account structure

The sample lists all of the Google Analytics accounts, web properties, and profiles that the current user can access.

advanced/analytics.gs
/**
 * Lists Analytics accounts.
 */
function listAccounts() {
  try {
    const accounts = Analytics.Management.Accounts.list();
    if (!accounts.items || !accounts.items.length) {
      console.log('No accounts found.');
      return;
    }

    for (let i = 0; i < accounts.items.length; i++) {
      const account = accounts.items[i];
      console.log('Account: name "%s", id "%s".', account.name, account.id);

      // List web properties in the account.
      listWebProperties(account.id);
    }
  } catch (e) {
    // TODO (Developer) - Handle exception
    console.log('Failed with error: %s', e.error);
  }
}

/**
 * Lists web properites for an Analytics account.
 * @param  {string} accountId The account ID.
 */
function listWebProperties(accountId) {
  try {
    const webProperties = Analytics.Management.Webproperties.list(accountId);
    if (!webProperties.items || !webProperties.items.length) {
      console.log('\tNo web properties found.');
      return;
    }
    for (let i = 0; i < webProperties.items.length; i++) {
      const webProperty = webProperties.items[i];
      console.log('\tWeb Property: name "%s", id "%s".',
          webProperty.name, webProperty.id);

      // List profiles in the web property.
      listProfiles(accountId, webProperty.id);
    }
  } catch (e) {
    // TODO (Developer) - Handle exception
    console.log('Failed with error: %s', e.error);
  }
}

/**
 * Logs a list of Analytics accounts profiles.
 * @param  {string} accountId     The Analytics account ID
 * @param  {string} webPropertyId The web property ID
 */
function listProfiles(accountId, webPropertyId) {
  // Note: If you experience "Quota Error: User Rate Limit Exceeded" errors
  // due to the number of accounts or profiles you have, you may be able to
  // avoid it by adding a Utilities.sleep(1000) statement here.
  try {
    const profiles = Analytics.Management.Profiles.list(accountId,
        webPropertyId);

    if (!profiles.items || !profiles.items.length) {
      console.log('\t\tNo web properties found.');
      return;
    }
    for (let i = 0; i < profiles.items.length; i++) {
      const profile = profiles.items[i];
      console.log('\t\tProfile: name "%s", id "%s".', profile.name,
          profile.id);
    }
  } catch (e) {
    // TODO (Developer) - Handle exception
    console.log('Failed with error: %s', e.error);
  }
}

Run a report

The sample runs a report to retrieve the top 25 keywords and traffic sources and stores the results in a new spreadsheet.

advanced/analytics.gs
/**
 * Runs a report of an Analytics profile ID. Creates a sheet with the report.
 * @param  {string} profileId The profile ID.
 */
function runReport(profileId) {
  const today = new Date();
  const oneWeekAgo = new Date(today.getTime() - 7 * 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000);

  const startDate = Utilities.formatDate(oneWeekAgo, Session.getScriptTimeZone(),
      'yyyy-MM-dd');
  const endDate = Utilities.formatDate(today, Session.getScriptTimeZone(),
      'yyyy-MM-dd');

  const tableId = 'ga:' + profileId;
  const metric = 'ga:visits';
  const options = {
    'dimensions': 'ga:source,ga:keyword',
    'sort': '-ga:visits,ga:source',
    'filters': 'ga:medium==organic',
    'max-results': 25
  };
  const report = Analytics.Data.Ga.get(tableId, startDate, endDate, metric,
      options);

  if (!report.rows) {
    console.log('No rows returned.');
    return;
  }

  const spreadsheet = SpreadsheetApp.create('Google Analytics Report');
  const sheet = spreadsheet.getActiveSheet();

  // Append the headers.
  const headers = report.columnHeaders.map((columnHeader) => {
    return columnHeader.name;
  });
  sheet.appendRow(headers);

  // Append the results.
  sheet.getRange(2, 1, report.rows.length, headers.length)
      .setValues(report.rows);

  console.log('Report spreadsheet created: %s',
      spreadsheet.getUrl());
}