Add Annotations update API

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Name of API affected:
Analytics Data Export API

Request summary:
Allow annotations to be added/updated via an API.

Use Cases:
When we release new builds/changes to our sites, we'd utilize the API to
add annotations as part of our release.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by ichc.lo...@gmail.com on 18 Jan 2010 at 11:50

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I've love to be able to add annotations as part of my build pipeline. Being 
able to tie in changes to code to an affect on traffic would helpful.

Original comment by demetri....@gmail.com on 20 Jan 2014 at 4:36

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This will help us monitor out all the different changes in the marketing mix 
has affected Conversion rate. Is quite a task to add this manually. So the 
perfect solution would be a link with the API from a Google doc.... and the 
Google doc to be linked to an online form.

Original comment by alessand...@which.co.uk on 17 Feb 2014 at 11:37

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I would love to make this a feature for our platform. Hundreds of thousands of 
users would benefit from it.

Original comment by JoeJon...@gmail.com on 11 Mar 2014 at 2:59

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This would be incredibly valuable. Currently we manually update all annotations 
to note when we have sent newsletters, etc. Automating this process would save 
time, increase accuracy, and provide incredibly valuable data for our clients 
and our company.

Original comment by j...@ideaden.com on 16 May 2014 at 4:43

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Certainly would find this a useful feature - especially with write access, to 
allow points in time to be generated by products integrating with Google 
Analytics, now that write access to profiles and goals is being worked on in 
whitelisted beta in the Management API. It would be great if could be 
considered for about the time when Management API write access is made 
available generally, or shortly after - I couldn't imagine it'd be a big jump 
once the big aspects of profile/goal/etc. editing is made public.

It would also fit in with the ethos of the Universal Analytics "upload 
everything into GA" mentality being promoted. I'm not sure whether read-only 
access to annotations would be as crucial, but it would still be a help in this 
case.

I'd imagine it would probably need to sit in a similar position to Content 
Experiments - as a "management.annotation" resource living underneath the 
profile, but like experiments requires the profile ID for listing; no "~all" 
access.

(With v3 of the Analytics APIs, I'd suggest that this bug is miscategorised 
after the automatic component change from the sole Data Export API to Core 
Reporting, as it'd be a Management API feature now.)

Original comment by lwright...@gmail.com on 27 Jun 2014 at 2:34

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I'd love to use the Analytic API to sync the Annotations with a google 
calendar.  So, I can see/share the annotations in a calendar format.  So, 
please add this to your universal analytics update.

Original comment by sstaw...@screenflex.com on 16 Jul 2014 at 2:38

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+1 api for creating google annotations!!

Original comment by adelain...@hipagesgroup.com.au on 30 Jul 2014 at 1:25

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It's strange that the whole annotation system isn't available trough an API yet.

Original comment by pie...@siteoptimo.com on 4 Aug 2014 at 11:00

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+1 on this to enhance the power of analytics

Original comment by da...@broadplace.com on 5 Aug 2014 at 8:56

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Just spoke to Justin Cutroni and asked him to prioritize it.

Original comment by daniel.crompton on 8 Aug 2014 at 2:43

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+1 Would like twitter annotations to be possible, would make life easier

Original comment by john.lan...@oxygenna.com on 13 Aug 2014 at 8:11

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It would be great to be able to call this proposed Annotation API from 
deployment tools like OctopusDeploy to mark deployments.

Original comment by lee.engl...@gmail.com on 29 Aug 2014 at 1:38

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+1 api for creating google annotations!!

Original comment by jure...@gmail.com on 3 Sep 2014 at 12:48

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It would be great to be able to upload changes from other advertising tools 
such as when budget was changed, a campaign went live etc so our GA users can 
get a better idea of what's driving results. 

Original comment by garnieri...@gmail.com on 20 Sep 2014 at 2:00

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Could anyone add more information about this? This topic exists for four years 
now, still not any information about a planning or statusupdate (or even a 
priority).

This would be extremely helpfull for the same reasons everyone else posts, I 
also can't make a hack to do it in the meanwhile, so again, this would be 
extremely usefull.

I understand this takes time to build, but a simple 'extract items [from-till 
|| limit=10]' and a 'post item [date][text]' wouldn't be the most complicated 
piece of code (I think ;) ).

Original comment by techn...@jewelsite.nl on 7 Oct 2014 at 7:13

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I would also like to vote for this feature. As part of our BLOX TownNews.com 
Content Management System for media sites, it would be cool to allow actions in 
the CMS (a new ad campaign, change of design or navigation, publishing an 
important story, for example) to trigger an annotation in the analytics.

Original comment by cmast...@townnews.com on 18 Dec 2014 at 4:11

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this would be very helpful in proving the impact of mailings on web traffic!

Original comment by beetlesa...@gmail.com on 7 Jan 2015 at 3:33

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+1 for creating google annotations for deployments via api

Original comment by adelain...@hipagesgroup.com.au on 5 Feb 2015 at 2:15

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+1 on this, especially for GA mobile. Would be extremely useful to have an 
annotation automatically added (with the APK version number) every time I push 
a build to the Google Play Dev Console

Original comment by neiljkri...@gmail.com on 22 Feb 2015 at 3:35

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Vital - need to add this so when client adds articles to her website the cms 
can automatically add it as an annotation so that when she gets her emailed 
report she can see what happens when she posts. Very difficult to analyse a set 
of data without all the facts available.

Original comment by simonm...@googlemail.com on 26 Feb 2015 at 3:16

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This is so needed! Please add this feature to the API.

Original comment by jtay...@imegre.com on 4 Mar 2015 at 5:40

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plus 1

Original comment by d...@holstee.com on 5 Mar 2015 at 11:56

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+1 super useful for pushing commit id's, would love to see this get into the 
API.

Original comment by gooogleg...@gmail.com on 17 Mar 2015 at 7:09

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This is so needed! Please add this feature to the API.

Original comment by raf...@rafaelfurquim.com.br on 20 Mar 2015 at 2:28

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plus 1

Original comment by aryrab...@gmail.com on 26 Mar 2015 at 12:13

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Would be immensely helpful.

Original comment by smh...@gmail.com on 31 Mar 2015 at 6:34

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I would certainly like the ability to write annotations via API:

If it was possible to create annotations via the Management API then I think 
that would open up lots of useful possibilities for setting them in a 
structured way -- for example as part of the process of sending out an email or 
launching some other form of campaign, or launching a new a/b text, and so on.

Similarly, organisations which use external tools for reporting, dashboards etc 
would benefit from being able to use annotations within those interfaces. And, 
indeed, creating annotations from within their interface.

I also wonder whether the annotations system to could be expanded to allow for 
commentary widgets within the GA dashboards.

As a starting point for the native dashboards, how about a dashboard widget for 
the existing form of annotations? That might help develop their use.

Original comment by tim.lbo...@screenpages.com on 9 Apr 2015 at 4:55

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+1 for this. it would be incredible if the API allowed pulling as well as 
pushing new annotations.

Original comment by petr.hav...@optimics.cz on 10 Apr 2015 at 10:12

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+1 - It would be a great addition to the API

Original comment by a...@untanglemyweb.com on 15 Apr 2015 at 2:38

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Anybody knows these tool http://www.annoapi.com/? They tell that can 
automatically add or update annotations in Google Analytics via API.

Original comment by rodrigo....@vivareal.com on 12 May 2015 at 9:39

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This would be really useful, please add this...

Original comment by alistair...@glyndebourne.com on 1 Jul 2015 at 3:39

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Over 5 years since the initial request! hayibo Google! + 1 

Original comment by matt.g.e...@gmail.com on 14 Jul 2015 at 8:07

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+1 +1 +1 !!!!

The minute we can write an annotation via the API we'll be integrating it with 
the CMS we use and into our deployment tools. Incredibly useful to understand 
how key content changes are affecting traffic and behaviour.

Original comment by gar...@springload.co.nz on 18 Jul 2015 at 5:00

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Annotations should apply across all views, so that we do not have to constantly 
add the annotation to every view.

Original comment by track...@topspotims.com on 20 Jul 2015 at 3:31

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It's been 5 years since this post started. We are a premium customer with 
hundreds of properties and views managed and desperately need this feature. At 
the moment, to add annotations, we need to copy and paste them to every 
profile/view we have. It's absolutely preposterous. Either add it into the 
interface or add it into the API but give us something Google.

Original comment by vinny.s...@gmail.com on 14 Aug 2015 at 3:07

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+1 - we'd love this as part of the Measurement Protocol.

Original comment by m...@digitaloutdoors.co.uk on 24 Aug 2015 at 11:28

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+1 -- we have 100+ websites in GA and need to get automated annotations into GA 
as it is a manual nightmare.

Original comment by cm...@mozilla.com on 26 Aug 2015 at 4:52

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+1 Why is this not implemented yet? It would be incredibly useful!

Original comment by i...@tamyca.de on 1 Sep 2015 at 7:07

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This is sooooo needed! Manual annotations are such a pain!

Original comment by st...@alphaquad.co.uk on 7 Sep 2015 at 9:35

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This is so lame, Piwik all the way.

Original comment by Luisrodr...@gmail.com on 2 Oct 2015 at 1:35

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We need this, crazy that it hasn't been added to the API, we export data into 
Tableau for further analysis and without annotations it's only half useful

Original comment by step...@bigtripper.net on 11 Nov 2015 at 1:09

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+1 - This would absolutely make our life so much easier! Please do prioritise 
it as it would help a lot of people and businesses like us!

Original comment by emanuel...@gmail.com on 26 Nov 2015 at 12:14

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Yes please.. I assume Annotations are probably being refactored and redone- 
that this hasn't been sorted already. If not please do it.  !

Original comment by gk...@inviqa.com on 30 Nov 2015 at 2:33

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annotation in the api...when do we want it...now! Please...thank you kindly!

Original comment by doug...@schuh.co.uk on 3 Dec 2015 at 3:54

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Really disappointed that this is not available in the API. Really reduces the 
usefulness of the annotation feature. 

Original comment by dom.b...@gmail.com on 10 Dec 2015 at 2:27