Go-Nalytics

A basic week-end project: Go based dashboard for Google Analytics real time API

History

Wanted to try Go(lang) for a project. As my wife pointed out; Who would use this if it has a nicer web interface? Well.. I would.

If you came here, searching for a google analytics real time call example, try this: https://github.com/xfreakart/GO-Real-Time-Dump

Install dependences:

$ go get github.com/gizak/termui
$ go get github.com/common-nighthawk/go-figure
$ go get google.golang.org/api/analytics/v3

Configuration:

You need an app JSON from the Google Cloud Console (it's free). Go to Google Cloud Console and register a new Aplication, a json with the configuration will be downloaded. Open the JSON and add the email of the app (eg: 1324567890-compute@developer.gserviceaccount.com) to your Google Analytics account.

Fields needed:

From the json

gaServiceAcctEmail  = "1324567980-compute@developer.gserviceaccount.com" // (json:"client_email")
gaTokenurl          = "https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/token"         // (json:"token_uri") 
goPrivateKey        = "-----BEGIN PRIVATE KEY-----\nXXXXXXXXXXXXXX=\n-----END PRIVATE KEY-----\n"

From Google Analytics

gaTableID  = "ga:1324678"

Can be found in account/property/profile (it doesn't have a ga: string).

http://code.rickt.org/post/142452087425/how-to-download-google-analytics-data-with-golang

IMPORTANT!!

You have to add the client_email from google json to google Analytics. Do it as if it was a new user and give him Reading permission.

RUN:

$ go run *.go

Google Analytics Api

By default, the api can be called 500K per user per day. This dashboard does 2 Querys each timem, one for the page list, the other for everything else. Keep that in mind if you plan to do your own stuff.

Todo

Better way to handle configuration (YAML / JSON)
Better error handling
Improve code
detele extra stuff

xfreakart/Go-Nalytics