Method: properties.runReport

Returns a customized report of your Google Analytics event data. Reports contain statistics derived from data collected by the Google Analytics tracking code. The data returned from the API is as a table with columns for the requested dimensions and metrics. Metrics are individual measurements of user activity on your property, such as active users or event count. Dimensions break down metrics across some common criteria, such as country or event name.

For a guide to constructing requests & understanding responses, see Creating a Report.

HTTP request

POST https://analyticsdata.googleapis.com/v1beta/{property=properties/*}:runReport

The URL uses gRPC Transcoding syntax.

Path parameters

Parameters
property

string

A Google Analytics GA4 property identifier whose events are tracked. Specified in the URL path and not the body. To learn more, see where to find your Property ID. Within a batch request, this property should either be unspecified or consistent with the batch-level property.

Example: properties/1234

Request body

The request body contains data with the following structure:

JSON representation 
{
  "dimensions": [
    {
      object (Dimension)
    }
  ],
  "metrics": [
    {
      object (Metric)
    }
  ],
  "dateRanges": [
    {
      object (DateRange)
    }
  ],
  "dimensionFilter": {
    object (FilterExpression)
  },
  "metricFilter": {
    object (FilterExpression)
  },
  "offset": string,
  "limit": string,
  "metricAggregations": [
    enum (MetricAggregation)
  ],
  "orderBys": [
    {
      object (OrderBy)
    }
  ],
  "currencyCode": string,
  "cohortSpec": {
    object (CohortSpec)
  },
  "keepEmptyRows": boolean,
  "returnPropertyQuota": boolean,
  "comparisons": [
    {
      object (Comparison)
    }
  ]
}
Fields
dimensions[]

object (Dimension)

The dimensions requested and displayed.
metrics[]

object (Metric)

The metrics requested and displayed.
dateRanges[]

object (DateRange)

Date ranges of data to read. If multiple date ranges are requested, each response row will contain a zero based date range index. If two date ranges overlap, the event data for the overlapping days is included in the response rows for both date ranges. In a cohort request, this dateRanges must be unspecified.
dimensionFilter

object (FilterExpression)

Dimension filters let you ask for only specific dimension values in the report. To learn more, see Fundamentals of Dimension Filters for examples. Metrics cannot be used in this filter.
metricFilter

object (FilterExpression)

The filter clause of metrics. Applied after aggregating the report's rows, similar to SQL having-clause. Dimensions cannot be used in this filter.
offset

string (int64 format)

The row count of the start row. The first row is counted as row 0.

When paging, the first request does not specify offset; or equivalently, sets offset to 0; the first request returns the first limit of rows. The second request sets offset to the limit of the first request; the second request returns the second limit of rows.

To learn more about this pagination parameter, see Pagination.
limit

string (int64 format)

The number of rows to return. If unspecified, 10,000 rows are returned. The API returns a maximum of 250,000 rows per request, no matter how many you ask for. limit must be positive.

The API can also return fewer rows than the requested limit, if there aren't as many dimension values as the limit. For instance, there are fewer than 300 possible values for the dimension country, so when reporting on only country, you can't get more than 300 rows, even if you set limit to a higher value.

To learn more about this pagination parameter, see Pagination.
metricAggregations[]

enum (MetricAggregation)

Aggregation of metrics. Aggregated metric values will be shown in rows where the dimensionValues are set to "RESERVED_(MetricAggregation)".
orderBys[]

object (OrderBy)

Specifies how rows are ordered in the response.
currencyCode

string

A currency code in ISO4217 format, such as "AED", "USD", "JPY". If the field is empty, the report uses the property's default currency.
cohortSpec

object (CohortSpec)

Cohort group associated with this request. If there is a cohort group in the request the 'cohort' dimension must be present.
keepEmptyRows

boolean

If false or unspecified, each row with all metrics equal to 0 will not be returned. If true, these rows will be returned if they are not separately removed by a filter.

Regardless of this keepEmptyRows setting, only data recorded by the Google Analytics (GA4) property can be displayed in a report.

For example if a property never logs a purchase event, then a query for the eventName dimension and eventCount metric will not have a row eventName: "purchase" and eventCount: 0.
returnPropertyQuota

boolean

Toggles whether to return the current state of this Analytics Property's quota. Quota is returned in PropertyQuota.
comparisons[]

object (Comparison)

Optional. The configuration of comparisons requested and displayed. The request only requires a comparisons field in order to receive a comparison column in the response.

Response body

If successful, the response body contains an instance of RunReportResponse.

Authorization scopes

Requires one of the following OAuth scopes:

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