Hello Analytics Reporting API v4; Java quickstart for installed applications

This tutorial walks through the steps required to access the Analytics Reporting API v4.

1. Enable the API

To get started using Analytics Reporting API v4, you need to first use the setup tool, which guides you through creating a project in the Google API Console, enabling the API, and creating credentials.

Create credentials

• Open the Credentials page.
• Click Create credentials and select OAuth client ID
• For the Application type select Other.
• Name the client ID quickstart and click Create.

From the Credentials page click into the newly created client ID, and click Download JSON and save it as client_secrets.json; you will need it later in the tutorial.

2. Install the client library

To install the Google Analytics API Java Client, you must download a zip file containing all of the jars you need to extract and copy into your Java classpath.

1. Download the Analytics Reporting API v4 Java Client library, which is bundled as a ZIP file with all the required dependencies.
2. Extract the ZIP file.
3. Add all the JARs within the libs directory to your classpath.
4. Add the google-api-services-analyticsreporting-v4-[version].jar jar to your classpath.

Java environment details

-classpath /path/to/directory/with/unzipped/jars

3. Setup the sample

You'll need to create a single file named HelloAnalyticsReporting.java, which will contain the given sample code.

• Copy or download the following source code to HelloAnalyticsReporting.java.

• Move the previously downloaded client_secrets.json to the same directory as the sample code.

• Replace the value of VIEW_ID with the ID of the view you wish to access.

import com.google.api.client.auth.oauth2.Credential;
import com.google.api.client.extensions.java6.auth.oauth2.AuthorizationCodeInstalledApp;
import com.google.api.client.extensions.jetty.auth.oauth2.LocalServerReceiver;
import com.google.api.client.googleapis.auth.oauth2.GoogleAuthorizationCodeFlow;
import com.google.api.client.googleapis.auth.oauth2.GoogleClientSecrets;
import com.google.api.client.googleapis.javanet.GoogleNetHttpTransport;
import com.google.api.client.http.javanet.NetHttpTransport;
import com.google.api.client.json.JsonFactory;
import com.google.api.client.json.gson.GsonFactory;
import com.google.api.client.util.store.FileDataStoreFactory;

import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.security.GeneralSecurityException;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.List;

import com.google.analyticsreporting.v4.AnalyticsreportingScopes;
import com.google.analyticsreporting.v4.Analyticsreporting;
import com.google.analyticsreporting.v4.model.ColumnHeader;
import com.google.analyticsreporting.v4.model.DateRange;
import com.google.analyticsreporting.v4.model.DateRangeValues;
import com.google.analyticsreporting.v4.model.Dimension;
import com.google.analyticsreporting.v4.model.GetReportsRequest;
import com.google.analyticsreporting.v4.model.GetReportsResponse;
import com.google.analyticsreporting.v4.model.Metric;
import com.google.analyticsreporting.v4.model.MetricHeaderEntry;
import com.google.analyticsreporting.v4.model.Report;
import com.google.analyticsreporting.v4.model.ReportRequest;
import com.google.analyticsreporting.v4.model.ReportRow;


/**
 * A simple example of how to access the Google Analytics API.
 */
public class HelloAnalytics {
  // Path to client_secrets.json file downloaded from the Developer's Console.
  // The path is relative to HelloAnalytics.java.
  private static final String CLIENT_SECRET_JSON_RESOURCE = "client_secrets.json";

  // Replace with your view ID.
  private static final String VIEW_ID = "<REPLACE_WITH_VIEW_ID>";

  // The directory where the user's credentials will be stored.
  private static final File DATA_STORE_DIR = new File(
      System.getProperty("user.home"), ".store/hello_analytics");

  private static final String APPLICATION_NAME = "Hello Analytics Reporting";
  private static final JsonFactory JSON_FACTORY = GsonFactory.getDefaultInstance();
  private static NetHttpTransport httpTransport;
  private static FileDataStoreFactory dataStoreFactory;

  public static void main(String[] args) {
    try {
      Analyticsreporting service = initializeAnalyticsReporting();

      GetReportsResponse response = getReport(service);
      printResponse(response);
    } catch (Exception e) {
      e.printStackTrace();
    }
  }


  /**
   * Initializes an authorized Analytics Reporting service object.
   *
   * @return The analytics reporting service object.
   * @throws IOException
   * @throws GeneralSecurityException
   */
  private static Analyticsreporting initializeAnalyticsReporting() throws GeneralSecurityException, IOException {

    httpTransport = GoogleNetHttpTransport.newTrustedTransport();
    dataStoreFactory = new FileDataStoreFactory(DATA_STORE_DIR);

    // Load client secrets.
    GoogleClientSecrets clientSecrets = GoogleClientSecrets.load(JSON_FACTORY,
        new InputStreamReader(HelloAnalytics.class
            .getResourceAsStream(CLIENT_SECRET_JSON_RESOURCE)));

    // Set up authorization code flow for all authorization scopes.
    GoogleAuthorizationCodeFlow flow = new GoogleAuthorizationCodeFlow
        .Builder(httpTransport, JSON_FACTORY, clientSecrets,
            AnalyticsreportingScopes.all()).setDataStoreFactory(dataStoreFactory)
        .build();

    // Authorize.
    Credential credential = new AuthorizationCodeInstalledApp(flow,
        new LocalServerReceiver()).authorize("user");
    // Construct the Analytics Reporting service object.
    return new Analyticsreporting.Builder(httpTransport, JSON_FACTORY, credential)
        .setApplicationName(APPLICATION_NAME).build();
  }

  /**
   * Query the Analytics Reporting API V4.
   * Constructs a request for the sessions for the past seven days.
   * Returns the API response.
   *
   * @param service
   * @return GetReportResponse
   * @throws IOException
   */
  private static GetReportsResponse getReport(Analyticsreporting service) throws IOException {
    // Create the DateRange object.
    DateRange dateRange = new DateRange();
    dateRange.setStartDate("7DaysAgo");
    dateRange.setEndDate("today");

    // Create the Metrics object.
    Metric sessions = new Metric()
        .setExpression("ga:sessions")
        .setAlias("sessions");

    //Create the Dimensions object.
    Dimension browser = new Dimension()
        .setName("ga:browser");

    // Create the ReportRequest object.
    ReportRequest request = new ReportRequest()
        .setViewId(VIEW_ID)
        .setDateRanges(Arrays.asList(dateRange))
        .setDimensions(Arrays.asList(browser))
        .setMetrics(Arrays.asList(sessions));

    ArrayList<ReportRequest> requests = new ArrayList<ReportRequest>();
    requests.add(request);

    // Create the GetReportsRequest object.
    GetReportsRequest getReport = new GetReportsRequest()
        .setReportRequests(requests);

    // Call the batchGet method.
    GetReportsResponse response = service.reports().batchGet(getReport).execute();

    // Return the response.
    return response;
  }

  /**
   * Parses and prints the Analytics Reporting API V4 response.
   *
   * @param response the Analytics Reporting API V4 response.
   */
  private static void printResponse(GetReportsResponse response) {

    for (Report report: response.getReports()) {
      ColumnHeader header = report.getColumnHeader();
      List<String> dimensionHeaders = header.getDimensions();
      List<MetricHeaderEntry> metricHeaders = header.getMetricHeader().getMetricHeaderEntries();
      List<ReportRow> rows = report.getData().getRows();

      if (rows == null) {
         System.out.println("No data found for " + VIEW_ID);
         return;
      }

      for (ReportRow row: rows) {
        List<String> dimensions = row.getDimensions();
        List<DateRangeValues> metrics = row.getMetrics();
        for (int i = 0; i < dimensionHeaders.size() && i < dimensions.size(); i++) {
          System.out.println(dimensionHeaders.get(i) + ": " + dimensions.get(i));
        }

        for (int j = 0; j < metrics.size(); j++) {
          System.out.print("Date Range (" + j + "): ");
          DateRangeValues values = metrics.get(j);
          for (int k = 0; k < values.getValues().size() && k < metricHeaders.size(); k++) {
            System.out.println(metricHeaders.get(k).getName() + ": " + values.getValues().get(k));
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

4. Run the sample

If you're using an IDE, make sure you have a default run target set to the HelloAnalytics class.

• The application will load the authorization page in a browser.
• If you are not already logged into your Google account, you will be prompted to log in. If you are logged into multiple Google accounts, you will be asked to select one account to use for the authorization.

When you finish these steps, the sample outputs the number of sessions for the last seven days for the given view.