How to get active users of a specific page by Google analytics API? - real-time

Question

I use rt:activeUsers metric to get active users on website for realtime data.
I want to get active users in real time for a specific page (path or url), not the whole website. Is there a way to implement it? I went through API Explorer but gain no success.

Answer 1

For anybody else looking for this below is an example of how I accomplished this in javascript.
I started with the sample at: https://ga-dev-tools.appspot.com/embed-api/third-party-visualizations/
That sample uses a extension to the embed api to get active users: active-users.js
I didn't know where to get that active-users.js file so I just used the developer tools in Chrome and grabbed it that way. Saved it locally and linked to it in my page. If anyone knows a official location to get that please comment below. Thx.
If you look at the source to that file, I modifed the pollActiveUsers function to add a filters parameter like so:
pollActiveUsers_: function () {
var t = this.get(),
i = 1e3 * (t.pollingInterval || 5);
if (isNaN(i) || i < 5e3)
throw new Error("Frequency must be 5 seconds or more.");
this.polling_ = !0,
gapi.client.analytics.data.realtime.get({
ids: t.ids,
metrics: "rt:activeUsers",
filters: t.filters
}).then(function (t) {
var e = t.result,
s = e.totalResults ? +e.rows[0][0] : 0,
n = this.activeUsers;
this.emit("success", {
activeUsers: this.activeUsers
}),
s != n && (this.activeUsers = s, this.onChange_(s - n)),
1 == this.polling_ && (this.timeout_ = setTimeout(this.pollActiveUsers_.bind(this), i))
}
.bind(this))
},
Now in my page javascript I can call it like so:
var activeUsers = new gapi.analytics.ext.ActiveUsers({
container: 'active-users-container',
pollingInterval: 5,
filters: "rt:pagePath==/somepath/somepage/",
ids: "ga:<yourviewid>"
});
Hope that helps somebody.

Answer 2

While the Real-time API is very limited it does allow you to use filters. Filters are a kind of where clause.
The real-time documentation is also very limited but you can look at the documentation for filters on the core reporting API it works the same
filters=ga:browser%3D~%5EFirefox
I think you should check out the dimension rt:pagePath its probably what you are looking for.