Posting metric to google analytics from perl script - perl

Question

I need to generate a google analytic event from my perl cron job.
Based on https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/protocol/v1/devguide
POST to www.google-analytics.com/collect will accept the metrics.
I tried posting metric using following code, but I am not seeing them in google analytics realtime page.
use LWP::UserAgent;
$ua=LWP::UserAgent->new;
$ua->default_header("Content-type" => "application/x-rm-urlencoded");
my $response = $ua->post("http://www.google-analytics.com/collect",
"v" => 1,
"tid" => "UA-XXXXXXXX-Y",
"cid" => 125,
"t" => "pageview",
"dh" => "Cron",
"dp" => "Cron.php",
"dt" => "CronTitle");
print $response->status_line;'
Response is "200 OK", but I am not seeing the data in google analytics webpage.

Answer 1

I am able to post analytics from my php scripts, but could not post analytics from perl script.
I solved my problem as follows.
Created an utility php script and called that php script from my perl script. Then it worked.
<?php
$ec = $_GET['ec'];
$ea = $_GET['ea'];
$el = $_GET['el'];
$ev = $_GET['ev'];
// Send event tracking as well.
$url = 'http://www.google-analytics.com/collect';
$event_data = array(
'v' => '1',
'tid' => 'UA-XXXXXX-Y',
'cid' => $_SERVER["REMOTE_ADDR"],
't' => 'event',
'ec' => $ec,
'ea' => $ea,
'el' => $el,
'ev' => $ev);
$event_options = array(
'http' => array(
'header' => "Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\r\n",
'method' => 'POST',
'content' => http_build_query($event_data),
),
);
$event_context = stream_context_create($event_options);
$result = file_get_contents($url, false, $event_context);
echo "XXX";
?>