Another in the 'do something useful with Google Apps Script' series. This time you'll see how to use the Analytics service and use exponential backoff to mitigate for quota rate limiting.

1. do something useful with
Apps Script in 5 minutes
4. Analytics property data to a sheet
Bruce McPherson
www.mcpher.com

2. Snippet objectives
● Use the lessons learned in ‘using a spreadsheet as a
database’
● Gets the properties information for all your analytics
profiles
● Shows how to avoid rate limit exceeded problems
● Flattens and writes it all to a sheet
Libraries used
● database abstraction
● driver sheet
● useful stuff

3. Add libraries to script
● create a spreadsheet
● get its id
● create a script
● Open resources
● Add references to libraries
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4. Add analytics service
in advanced services, enable analytics

5. Enable analytics on cloud console

6. layout what you are going to do
function myFunction() {
// open spreadsheet as database
// get all know analytics properties
// write to the sheet
}

7. write function to get properties - 1
First step - the analytics service is rate limited, so we have to handle retries using exponential backoff. You’ll find that in
the cUseful library. Create a wrapper for the code we’re about to add
function findAllProperties () {
// find all the properties belonging to you
return cUseful.rateLimitExpBackoff( function () {
var am = Analytics.Management;
});
}

8. extend function get all accounts
second step - Loop through all your accounts to get the account records and use the account id to find the
webproperties
function findAllProperties () {
// find all the properties belonging to you
return cUseful.rateLimitExpBackoff( function () {
var am = Analytics.Management;
return (am.Accounts.list().items || []).reduce (function(p,account) {
p.push(account);
return p;
},[]);
});
}

9. extend function get webproperties
third step - Loop through all the webproperties for each account id
function findAllProperties () {
// find all the properties belonging to you
return cUseful.rateLimitExpBackoff( function () {
var am = Analytics.Management;
return (am.Accounts.list().items || []).reduce (function(p,account) {
(am.Webproperties.list(account.id).items || []).forEach(function(webProperty) {
p.push(webProperty);
});
return p;
},[]);
});
}

10. extend function get profiles
finally - Loop through all the profiles for each webproperties.id
function findAllProperties () {
// find all the properties belonging to you
return cUseful.rateLimitExpBackoff( function () {
var am = Analytics.Management;
return (am.Accounts.list().items || []).reduce (function(p,account) {
(am.Webproperties.list(account.id).items || []).forEach(function(webProperty) {
(am.Profiles.list(account.id,webProperty.id).items || [] ).forEach( function (profile) {
p.push(profile);
});
});
return p;
},[]);
});
}

11. write everything to a sheet
Array data will be flattened as required to fit in 2d sheet
// write to the sheet after deleting current contents
var result = sheetHandle.remove();
if (result.handleCode < 0 ) throw JSON.stringify(result);
var result = sheetHandle.save(properties);
if (result.handleCode < 0 ) throw JSON.stringify(result);

12. Here’s the whole thing
function myFunction() {
// open spreadsheet as database
var sheetHandle = new cDbAbstraction.DbAbstraction (cDriverSheet, {
siloid:'analytics',
dbid:'19tZRW5CxA4V0kjJX8yAXAGGjzvVZ1433vz-NmBIBt7U'
});
if (!sheetHandle.isHappy()) throw 'unable to open sheet';
// get all know analytics properties
var properties = findAllProperties();
// write to the sheet after deleting current contents
var result = sheetHandle.remove();
if (result.handleCode < 0 ) throw JSON.stringify(result);
var result = sheetHandle.save(properties);
if (result.handleCode < 0 ) throw JSON.stringify(result);
}

13. take a look at the sheet
You’ll find a row for each accounts profile you own

14. Further homework
● Now you know how to find your internal
analytics IDs, try using the Analytics service
to do some queries

15. Follow up materials
Take a copy of this script
Take a copy of these slides
Join me on G+, or the G+ community
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