The document outlines a method for using Google Apps Script to extract Google Analytics property data into a spreadsheet. It covers setting up the script, managing rate limits, retrieving account records, web properties, and profiles, and writing the collected data to a sheet. Additionally, it provides instructions for handling errors and encourages further exploration of analytics services.

1. do something useful with
Apps Script in 5 minutes
4. Analytics property data to a sheet
Bruce McPherson
www.mcpher.com

2. Snippet objectives
● Use the lessons learned in ‘using a spreadsheet as a
database’
● Gets the properties information for all your analytics
profiles
● Shows how to avoid rate limit exceeded problems
● Flattens and writes it all to a sheet
Libraries used
● database abstraction
● driver sheet
● useful stuff

3. Add libraries to script
● create a spreadsheet
● get its id
● create a script
● Open resources
● Add references to libraries
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4. Add analytics service
in advanced services, enable analytics

5. Enable analytics on cloud console

6. layout what you are going to do
function myFunction() {
// open spreadsheet as database
// get all know analytics properties
// write to the sheet
}

7. write function to get properties - 1
First step - the analytics service is rate limited, so we have to handle retries using exponential backoff. You’ll find that in
the cUseful library. Create a wrapper for the code we’re about to add
function findAllProperties () {
// find all the properties belonging to you
return cUseful.rateLimitExpBackoff( function () {
var am = Analytics.Management;
});
}

8. extend function get all accounts
second step - Loop through all your accounts to get the account records and use the account id to find the
webproperties
function findAllProperties () {
// find all the properties belonging to you
return cUseful.rateLimitExpBackoff( function () {
var am = Analytics.Management;
return (am.Accounts.list().items || []).reduce (function(p,account) {
p.push(account);
return p;
},[]);
});
}

9. extend function get webproperties
third step - Loop through all the webproperties for each account id
function findAllProperties () {
// find all the properties belonging to you
return cUseful.rateLimitExpBackoff( function () {
var am = Analytics.Management;
return (am.Accounts.list().items || []).reduce (function(p,account) {
(am.Webproperties.list(account.id).items || []).forEach(function(webProperty) {
p.push(webProperty);
});
return p;
},[]);
});
}

10. extend function get profiles
finally - Loop through all the profiles for each webproperties.id
function findAllProperties () {
// find all the properties belonging to you
return cUseful.rateLimitExpBackoff( function () {
var am = Analytics.Management;
return (am.Accounts.list().items || []).reduce (function(p,account) {
(am.Webproperties.list(account.id).items || []).forEach(function(webProperty) {
(am.Profiles.list(account.id,webProperty.id).items || [] ).forEach( function (profile) {
p.push(profile);
});
});
return p;
},[]);
});
}

11. write everything to a sheet
Array data will be flattened as required to fit in 2d sheet
// write to the sheet after deleting current contents
var result = sheetHandle.remove();
if (result.handleCode < 0 ) throw JSON.stringify(result);
var result = sheetHandle.save(properties);
if (result.handleCode < 0 ) throw JSON.stringify(result);

12. Here’s the whole thing
function myFunction() {
// open spreadsheet as database
var sheetHandle = new cDbAbstraction.DbAbstraction (cDriverSheet, {
siloid:'analytics',
dbid:'19tZRW5CxA4V0kjJX8yAXAGGjzvVZ1433vz-NmBIBt7U'
});
if (!sheetHandle.isHappy()) throw 'unable to open sheet';
// get all know analytics properties
var properties = findAllProperties();
// write to the sheet after deleting current contents
var result = sheetHandle.remove();
if (result.handleCode < 0 ) throw JSON.stringify(result);
var result = sheetHandle.save(properties);
if (result.handleCode < 0 ) throw JSON.stringify(result);
}

13. take a look at the sheet
You’ll find a row for each accounts profile you own

14. Further homework
● Now you know how to find your internal
analytics IDs, try using the Analytics service
to do some queries

15. Follow up materials
Take a copy of this script
Take a copy of these slides
Join me on G+, or the G+ community
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