Google Analytics Admin API developer quickstart

In this quickstart, you create and send list requests to the Google Analytics Admin API, then view the responses to set up and verify your API access.

You can complete this quickstart using a an SDK, or the REST API in your local environment or a Google Cloud VM instance.

Here's a summary of the steps:

  • Set up a Google Cloud project and enable the Google Analytics Admin API.
  • On your local machine or Cloud VM instance:
    • Install, initialize, and authenticate with the Google Cloud.
    • Install the SDK for your language (optional).
  • Configure authentication.
  • Configure Google Analytics access.
  • Set up an SDK.
  • Make an API call.

Set up a Google Cloud project

Click the following Enable the Google Analytics Admin API button to select or create a new Google Cloud project and automatically enable the Google Analytics Admin API.

Enable the Google Analytics Admin API

Set up Google Cloud

On your local machine or a Cloud VM instance, set up and authenticate with Google Cloud.

  1. Install and initialize the Google Cloud.

  2. To ensure your gcloud components are up to date, run the following command.

    gcloud components update

To avoid providing your project ID to Google Cloud, you can use the gcloud config set command to set a default project and region.

Configure authentication

This quickstart uses Application Default Credentials to automatically find credentials based on the application environment, so you don't have to change the client code to authenticate.

The Google Analytics Admin API supports user accounts and service accounts:

  • User accounts represent a developer, administrator, or any other person who interacts with Google APIs and services.
  • Service accounts do not represent a specific human user. They provide a way to manage authentication and authorization when a human is not directly involved, such as when an application needs to access Google Cloud resources.

To learn more about authentication and setting up account credentials for your application, see Authentication methods at Google.

User Account

Generate a local Application Default Credentials (ADC) file by running the following command. This command launches a web flow where you provide your user credentials.

  gcloud auth application-default login --scopes="https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform,https://www.googleapis.com/auth/analytics.readonly"

Remember to specify the scopes required by the Google Analytics Admin API in the command. For more information, see Set up Application Default Credentials

Service Account

Here are the steps to authenticate with a service account:

  1. Create a service account.
  2. Attach the service account to your Cloud VM instance by running the following gcloud CLI command:
  gcloud compute instances stop YOUR-VM-INSTANCE-ID

  gcloud compute instances set-service-account YOUR-VM-INSTANCE-ID \
    --service-account YOUR-SERVICE-ACCOUNT-EMAIL-ALIAS  \
    --scopes="https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform,https://www.googleapis.com/auth/analytics.readonly"

Remember to specify the scopes required by the Google Analytics Admin API in the command. For more information, see Set up Application Default Credentials

Configure access to Google Analytics

Grant Google Analytics access to the email associated with your user or service account.

Set up the SDK for your programming language

On your local machine, install the SDK for your programming language.

Java

Java client library installation guide

PHP

PHP client library installation guide

Python

Python client library installation guide

Node.js

Node.js client library installation guide

.NET

.NET client library installation guide

Ruby

Ruby client library installation guide

Go

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

REST

Configure your environment variables by entering the following. Replace PROJECT_ID with the ID of your Google Cloud project.

  EXPORT PROJECT_ID=PROJECT_ID

Make an API call

Run the following code to make your first call:

Java

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();
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

PHP

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;
}

Python

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)

Node.js

  // 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();

.NET

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();
            }
        }
    }
}

REST

To send this request, run the curl command from the command line or include the REST call in your application.

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $(gcloud auth application-default print-access-token)" \
  -H "x-goog-user-project: ${PROJECT_ID}" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  https://analyticsadmin.googleapis.com/v1beta/accounts

The sample code response lists the Google Analytics accounts your user or service account has access to view:

{
  "accounts": [
    {
      "name": "accounts/123456789",
      "createTime": "2025-01-01T00:12:23.456Z",
      "createTime": "2025-01-01T00:12:23.456Z",
      "displayName": "Demo Account",
      "regionCode": "US",
      "gmpOrganization": "marketingplatformadmin.googleapis.com/organizations/abcdef12345678"
    }
}