Using Google Analytics

The Google Analytics API allows client applications to request data, saved in the analytics accounts.

See » http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/gdata/v2/gdataOverview.html for more information about the Google Analytics API.

Retrieving account data

Using the account feed, you are able to retrieve a list of all the accounts available to a specified user.

$service = Zend_Gdata_Analytics::AUTH_SERVICE_NAME;
$client = Zend_Gdata_ClientLogin::getHttpClient($email, $password, $service);
$analytics = new Zend_Gdata_Analytics($client);  
$accounts = $analytics->getAccountFeed();
 
foreach ($accounts as $account) {  
  echo "\n{$account->title}\n";
}

The $analytics->getAccountFeed() call, results in a Zend_Gdata_Analytics_AccountFeed object that contains Zend_Gdata_Analytics_AccountEntry objects. Each of this objects represent a google analytics account.

Retrieving report data

Besides the account feed, google offers a data feed, to retrieve report data using the Google Analytics API. To easily request for these reports, Zend_Gdata_Analytics offers a simple query construction interface. You can use all the » metrics and dimensions specified by the API. Additionaly you can apply some » filters to retrieve some » common data or even complex results.

$query = $service->newDataQuery()->setProfileId($profileId)  
  ->addMetric(Zend_Gdata_Analytics_DataQuery::METRIC_BOUNCES)   
  ->addMetric(Zend_Gdata_Analytics_DataQuery::METRIC_VISITS) 
  ->addDimension(Zend_Gdata_Analytics_DataQuery::DIMENSION_MEDIUM)  
  ->addDimension(Zend_Gdata_Analytics_DataQuery::DIMENSION_SOURCE)  
  ->addFilter("ga:browser==Firefox")  
  ->setStartDate('2011-05-01')   
  ->setEndDate('2011-05-31')   
  ->addSort(Zend_Gdata_Analytics_DataQuery::METRIC_VISITS, true)  
  ->addSort(Zend_Gdata_Analytics_DataQuery::METRIC_BOUNCES, false)  
  ->setMaxResults(50); 
  
$result = $analytics->getDataFeed($query);
foreach($result as $row){  
  echo $row->getMetric('ga:visits')."\t";  
  echo $row->getValue('ga:bounces')."\n";  
}