I am trying to use custom cost data (from PLA, price comparison sites), I already upload data on daily basis, it shows up in GA. However, It does not work as expected on API side - as I need to use this cost data for custom reporting, using ga:adCost return cost data only for Google Ads, nothing else. As I have checked, there is no other cost column in dimensions or metrics....
Concrete:
I import cost data using APIs
Success
However, on the API side, when I want to use that data as a source for data export, the only ,,cost,, related colum is adCost - but only Google Ads costs as a traffic source are returned
https://ga-dev-tools.appspot.com/dimensions-metrics-explorer/
I would expect all traffic sources to have ga:adCost (or ga:cost?) in API as well, however, only Google Ads have that. I suppose that ga:ad* is related to GAds connection data only and custom data imported are to passed to Analytics API and/or there is no metric for that data...
Am i doing wrong API calls to get traffic source / medium & cost data, or custom imported data are not able to get back via API?
Is there a solution? Thanks!
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I understand that GA4 data API does not support segments yet. I read that you can imitate a segment using audiences. In my code, I create a new dimension 'audienceName', however, it only returns 'All users' audience. How can I select the audience I manually created in GA4 UI with the criterias needed for my query to show me the data I want ?
Thanks!
I need to get sample data from sales force developer account but i am unable to find any API to get any data from sales force.
Is there any API exposed by sales force to accomplish the task.
Salesforce exposes a large number of thoroughly documented APIs.
Access to record data is most commonly achieved through the standard REST API.
You may be most interested in the endpoints named under Working with Records, which provide access to record data, or Working with Searches and Queries.
I am building a chrome extension/third-party app that needs to read data from salesforce.
One way is to make a API call directly to salesforce whenever a user needs to query something, but this will create a large number of API calls.
What I attempted to do is to pull a ton of data from salesforce into a Google Sheet using the reports API, on an hourly basis, then query the data through Google App Script. But Salesforce's 2000 row limits for Reports and SOQL API, as well as the runtime limits posed by Google App Script, make my life difficult :(
What are the best ways to get data from salesforce for third party extensions?
Appreciate your help!
The bulk API can fulfill your needs as it hasn't a limitation on the number of returned rows.
If there a similar meta data API for MCF reporting like there is for GA:
https://www.googleapis.com/analytics/v3/metadata/ga/columns?pp=1"
No currently the Google Analytics Metadata api only supports the Normal Core reporting dimensions and metrics.
But if you check the documentation for columns list there is a parameter option. It currently states.
reportType string Report type. Allowed Values: ga. Where ga
corresponds to the Core Reporting API.
Right now the only thing you can request are the ga dimensions and metrics but this implies to me that they may at some point open up for more.
I added a feature request a while back asking for Access to Realtime Dimensions and metric list. I have asked the devs and the only response was they weren't going to do it right now.
I have a custom variable defined on my site and the data is being recorded properly in my Google Analytics account. When I go to access the data via the Google Data Feed Query Explorer, the data I get isn't the same. Really, this is only the case with 'Visits' and any metrics calculated using it.
This is what I see in my dashboard:
http://www.screencast.com/t/QJl21ZOmpw
This is what I see in the query explorer:
http://www.screencast.com/t/WNGLiUUWum
I made sure the time frame matches and have pulled the same metrics. 'Hits' (aka pageviews) match up perfectly every time. Visits is obviously off and seems to be messing up other metrics that depend on it, such as 'Pages/Visit' (aka pageviews per visit).
I have reviewed the code and the custom variable is being set prior to recording the pageview. Am I missing something? My understanding is that Google Uses this exact same API to run their Analytics Dashboard, so why am I getting different data?
Try removing the visitors metric from your feed in the Query Explorer. A "Visitor" is different than a "Visit". I believe the stats of the Google Analytics screenshot have nothing to do with visitors. And including this metric might actually limit your result set to the unique visitors (I think).