I'm automating the data collection from a Google Analytics 4 property.
However, whenever i'm trying to match the API data with the property data I get slight differences.
For example, when I get these fields (see image below) for february and march. The total sessions from the API data is: 188.213, while the Google Analytics UI shows 189.042.
When I make the API query, really simple, by just pulling the sessions between february and march then I get the 189.042 totally perfect. Why do I get a difference when I add some dimensions?
I hope somebody can explain. Business users need to trust the data, so it must match in my opinion. Thanks for answering in advance!
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To start: I'm completely new to working with APIs, so please bear with me.
My first question is related to getting access to the Walmart API. I see the example code to generate time stamp and signature. How do I run this file? I've looked at YouTube videos, the Walmart tutorial, and other posts in this forum and am still a little stuck.
Second, I'm guessing this file needs to be included in the actual application to continue to be able to access the products?
Third, my goal is to map only a subset of the product catalog for users of the app to view. Let's use 'soda' as an example. Is it the Taxonomy API I need to use? And how do I limit the available products a user can search?
Note: This will be implemented in a Flutter application, if it makes any difference.
I am trying to access data via the analytics reportingv4 API. I am using the.net version in visual studio. I can get it to return data but just not the data I want.
I am using a specific account that only has one view attached to it. If I try to view the data I'm looking for, using the web interface, it works, by filtering it using the search box. For example, there is currently 20 page hits for today. If I try the same, using the API, no data is returned. If I remove the filter, from my code, data is returned but none of the pages that I am looking for.
Any ideas?
Thanks
I was being silly. I eventually noticed that I was supplying a date range for the year 2017! The processing which
I wonder if I can retrieve historical weather forecast from the IBM weather company API.
I am particularly interested in comparing what the weather company had forecasted for the past two years compared to the actual weather over the same period.
Looking at the documentation it doesn't seem to be possible to retrieve forecast data for past date, but that sounds weird to me.
After talking with the Weather Company Data service team within IBM, I have confirmation that, unfortunately, historical weather forecasts are not available on IBM Bluemix. If that is something that you would find valuable, we welcome your structured ideas, which you can submit here: https://ibmcloud.ideas.aha.io/
may be an explanation : the terms and conditions said that almanac data could be retreive for US country only.
https://www-03.ibm.com/software/sla/sladb.nsf/pdf/7148-03/$file/i126-7148-03_07-2016_en_US.pdf
I am building a web app that pulls data through the Core Reporting Api v3 from Google. I am using the client PHP library offered by Google.
I am currently trying to specify a page and retrieve its pageviews for a time range. Every other seems to be working okay except for the fact that if a specfy a filter with ga:pagePath==http://link/uri then I get 0 all the time no matter the time range.
I think the problem is got to do with the setting of value for this pagePath. I want to have spearate data for the desktop version of the site and the smartphone version denoted by s. subdomain
Can anyone hint me on some tips and or tricks to use to get the required data?
Example URL:
http://domain.com/user/profile/id/1
http://s.domain.com/user/profile/id/1
Thanks in advance!
for the the default implementation of Google Analytics, ga:pagePath doesn't include the scheme or hostname so in your case you'd actually want to filter using ga:hostname and ga:pagePath together.
I suggest you use the Query Explorer to build your queries and get familiar with what will work. You can also use this tool to at least get a sense for what type of data the ga:pagePath and ga:hostname dimensions return before trying to filter on them. Finally, once you have the query you want, you can easily get the exact Core Reporting API query by clicking on the Query URI button.
Also check out the Combining Filters section of GA API docs.
So if you want filter on ga:pagepath for domain.com and s.domain.com separately you could do something like
filters=ga:pagePath==/user/profile/id/1;ga:hostname==domain.com
filters=ga:pagePath==/user/profile/id/1;ga:hostname==s.domain.com
I have been playing around with GWT and GWT Visualization Wrapper API. One thing I learned recently is that GWT Visualization API does not work without an internet connection (I was working offline the other day and it took me a good half hour to figure out why my charts were not loading)
After doing a lot of reading online about privacy, data, and GWT, it seems that many people, including me, have a concern about sending data to Google when trying to display graphs. I already searched through many sources, including stackoverflow, and I would like to 100% confirm that my assumptions are correct.
The reason for people's concern about sending data to Google was when you tried to get an image of the said chart. This required data to be sent to Google, they processed it, and then they returned an image to be embedded in your website. According to my studies, that feature has been deprecated from Google charts (and for good reason). The way it works now, to my understanding, is that every time you want to display a chart, you download the most up-to-date library on the client side and perform all the calculations on the client. This makes it so that Google doesn’t actually get any information you will display on the charts.
Thus, I can continue using the visualization API as long as I keep using interactive charts and keep checking on the Google charts documentation page that it says that for this particular chart i.e Line Chart:
https://developers.google.com/chart/interactive/docs/gallery/linechart
(SEE BOTTOM OF PAGE) “All code and data are processed and rendered in the browser. No data is sent to any server” I do not have to worry about anyone getting my data because all information is processed client side.
Please correct any incorrect assumptions that I may have. Thank you.
The charts on this page, https://developers.google.com/chart/interactive/docs/gallery, all include a "Data Policy" section which details whether the chart is rendered on the client and what data will leave the client. Currently, only GeoChart communicates with Google (in order to do the Geocoding); obviously, this could change in the future.
The charts on this other page, https://developers.google.com/chart/interactive/docs/more_charts, include some that were written by Google, and some that were written by third parties. These also include a Data Policy section. For those written by Google, you can rely on this policy. For those written by third parties, Google has not validated the claims and cannot guarantee them.