Quickstart: Using Client Libraries

This page shows you how to get started with the Google Analytics Admin API in your favorite programming language using the client Libraries.

Step 1. Enable the API

Click this button to create a new Cloud Platform project and automatically enable the Google Analytics Admin API:

In resulting dialog click DOWNLOAD CLIENT CONFIGURATION and save the file credentials.json to your working directory.

Step 2. Configure authentication

This application demonstrates the usage of the Google Analytics Admin API using service account credentials.

Read more for instructions on creating and setting service account credentials for your application.

An easy way to provide service account credentials is by setting the GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS environment variable, the API client will use the value of this variable to find the service account key JSON file.

To set the application credentials in this example, run the following command and use the path to the service account JSON file downloaded at Step 1:

export GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS="[PATH]"

For example:

export GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS="/home/user/Downloads/service_account.json"

Step 3. Install the client library

Go

go get google.golang.org/genproto/googleapis/analytics/admin/v1beta

Make an API call

Now you can use the Google Analytics Admin API to list the Google Analytics accounts. Run the following code to perform your first call to the API:

Java

google-analytics-admin/src/main/java/com/google/analytics/admin/samples/QuickstartSample.java

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import com.google.analytics.admin.v1beta.Account;
import com.google.analytics.admin.v1beta.AnalyticsAdminServiceClient;
import com.google.analytics.admin.v1beta.AnalyticsAdminServiceClient.ListAccountsPage;
import com.google.analytics.admin.v1beta.AnalyticsAdminServiceClient.ListAccountsPagedResponse;
import com.google.analytics.admin.v1beta.ListAccountsRequest;

/**
 * This application demonstrates the usage of the Analytics Admin API using service account
 * credentials. For more information on service accounts, see
 * https://cloud.google.com/iam/docs/understanding-service-accounts.
 *
 * <p>The following document provides instructions on setting service account credentials for your
 * application: https://cloud.google.com/docs/authentication/production
 *
 * <p>In a nutshell, you need to:
 *
 * <ol>
 *   <li>Create a service account and download the key JSON file as described at
 *       https://cloud.google.com/docs/authentication/production#creating_a_service_account.
 *   <li>Provide service account credentials using one of the following options:
 *       <ul>
 *         <li>Set the {@code GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS} environment variable. The API client
 *             will use the value of this variable to find the service account key JSON file. See
 *             https://cloud.google.com/docs/authentication/production#setting_the_environment_variable
 *             for more information.
 *             <p>OR
 *         <li>Manually pass the path to the service account key JSON file to the API client by
 *             specifying the {@code keyFilename} parameter in the constructor. See
 *             https://cloud.google.com/docs/authentication/production#passing_the_path_to_the_service_account_key_in_code
 *             for more information.
 *       </ul>
 * </ol>
 *
 * <p>To run this sample using Maven:
 *
 * <pre>{@code
 * cd google-analytics-data
 * mvn compile exec:java -Dexec.mainClass="com.google.analytics.admin.samples.QuickstartSample"
 * }</pre>
 */
public class QuickstartSample {

  public static void main(String... args) throws Exception {
    listAccounts();
  }

  // This is an example snippet that calls the Google Analytics Admin API and lists all Google
  // Analytics accounts available to the authenticated user.
  static void listAccounts() throws Exception {
    // Instantiates a client using default credentials.
    // See https://cloud.google.com/docs/authentication/production for more information
    // about managing credentials.
    try (AnalyticsAdminServiceClient analyticsAdmin = AnalyticsAdminServiceClient.create()) {
      // Calls listAccounts() method of the Google Analytics Admin API and prints
      // the response for each account.
      ListAccountsPagedResponse response =
          analyticsAdmin.listAccounts(ListAccountsRequest.newBuilder().build());
      for (ListAccountsPage page : response.iteratePages()) {
        for (Account account : page.iterateAll()) {
          System.out.printf("Account name: %s%n", account.getName());
          System.out.printf("Display name: %s%n", account.getDisplayName());
          System.out.printf("Country code: %s%n", account.getRegionCode());
          System.out.printf("Create time: %s%n", account.getCreateTime().getSeconds());
          System.out.printf("Update time: %s%n", account.getUpdateTime().getSeconds());
          System.out.println();
        }
      }
    }
  }
}
QuickstartSample.java

PHP

google-analytics-admin/quickstart.php

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require 'vendor/autoload.php';

use Google\Analytics\Admin\V1beta\Account;
use Google\Analytics\Admin\V1beta\Client\AnalyticsAdminServiceClient;
use Google\Analytics\Admin\V1beta\ListAccountsRequest;

/**
 * TODO(developer): Replace this variable with your Google Analytics 4
 *   property ID before running the sample.
 */
$property_id = 'YOUR-GA4-PROPERTY-ID';

// Using a default constructor instructs the client to use the credentials
// specified in GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS environment variable.
// See https://cloud.google.com/docs/authentication/production for more information
// about managing credentials.
$client = new AnalyticsAdminServiceClient();

// Calls listAccounts() method of the Google Analytics Admin API and prints
// the response for each account.
$request = new ListAccountsRequest();
$response = $client->listAccounts($request);

print 'Result:' . PHP_EOL;
foreach($response->iterateAllElements() as $account) {
    print 'Account name: ' . $account->getName() . PHP_EOL;
    print 'Display name: ' . $account->getDisplayName() . PHP_EOL;
    print 'Country code: ' . $account->getRegionCode() . PHP_EOL;
    print 'Create time: ' . $account->getCreateTime()->getSeconds() . PHP_EOL;
    print 'Update time: ' . $account->getUpdateTime()->getSeconds() . PHP_EOL;
}quickstart.php

Python

google-analytics-admin/quickstart.py

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def list_accounts(transport: str = None):
    """
    Lists the available Google Analytics accounts.

    Args:
        transport(str): The transport to use. For example, "grpc"
            or "rest". If set to None, a transport is chosen automatically.
    """
    from google.analytics.admin import AnalyticsAdminServiceClient

    # Using a default constructor instructs the client to use the credentials
    # specified in GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS environment variable.
    client = AnalyticsAdminServiceClient(transport=transport)

    results = client.list_accounts()

    # Displays the configuration information for all Google Analytics accounts
    # available to the authenticated user.
    print("Result:")
    for account in results:
        print(account)

quickstart.py

Node.js

google-analytics-admin/quickstart.js

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  // Imports the Google Analytics Admin API client library.
  const analyticsAdmin = require('@google-analytics/admin');

  // Using a default constructor instructs the client to use the credentials
  // specified in GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS environment variable.
  const analyticsAdminClient = new analyticsAdmin.AnalyticsAdminServiceClient();

  // Lists all Google Analytics accounts available to the authenticated user.
  async function listAccounts() {
    // Uses listAccounts() with no arguments to fetch all pages. For more
    // information on pagination in the Node.js library, see:
    // https://github.com/googleapis/gax-nodejs/blob/main/client-libraries.md#auto-pagination
    const [response] = await analyticsAdminClient.listAccounts();

    console.log('Accounts:');
    for (const account of response) {
      console.log('Account name:', account.name);
      console.log('Display name:', account.displayName);
      console.log('Region code:', account.regionCode);
      console.log('Create time:', account.createTime.seconds);
      console.log('Update time:', account.updateTime.seconds);
    }
  }

  listAccounts();quickstart.js

.NET

analytics-admin/QuickStart/QuickStart.cs

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using Google.Analytics.Admin.V1Beta;
using Google.Api.Gax;
using System;

namespace AnalyticsSamples
{
    class QuickStart
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            AnalyticsAdminServiceClient client = AnalyticsAdminServiceClient.Create();
            PagedEnumerable<ListAccountsResponse, Account> response =
                client.ListAccounts( new ListAccountsRequest() );
            foreach( Account account in response )
            {
                Console.WriteLine("Account name: {0}", account.Name);
                Console.WriteLine("Display name: {0}", account.DisplayName);
                Console.WriteLine("Region code: {0}", account.RegionCode);
                Console.WriteLine("Update time: {0}", account.UpdateTime);
                Console.WriteLine("Create time: {0}", account.CreateTime);
                Console.WriteLine();
            }
        }
    }
}QuickStart.cs

Congratulations! You've sent your first request to the Google Analytics Admin API.

Quickstart: Using Client Libraries

Step 1. Enable the API

Step 2. Configure authentication

Step 3. Install the client library

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