Working Example of Service Account application accessing Analytics API

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It would be great to have a working example of a Service Account application 
accessing Google Analytics API, public/private auth and all.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by Winderme...@gmail.com on 15 Jun 2012 at 12:16

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Original comment by bobaman@google.com on 15 Jun 2012 at 9:22

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i agree 10000%.

Using the examples in the README, lead me to the code, which lead me to adding 
`pry`, which lead me to an error in Google::APIClient::Method line 107 (108 
after i added pry).

Basically reading the comments in deep google , i understood you needed to do 
something like this:

~ bundle exec google-api irb oauth-2-login 
--scope='https://www.googleapis.com/auth/analytics.readonly' 
--client-id='blahaddyoursehere.apps.googleusercontent.com' 
--client-secret='secret-codedstuff'
1.9.3p125 :001 > blah = $client.discovered_api("analytics", "v3")
 => #<Google::APIClient::API:0x3fd009016a6c ID:analytics:v3> 
1.9.3p125 :002 > method = Google::APIClient::Method.new(blah.name, 
blah.method_base.to_s, "analytics.data.ga.get", 
$client.discovery_document("analytics", "v3"))
 => #<Google::APIClient::Method:0x3fd009025aa8 ID:analytics:v3> 
1.9.3p125 :003 > $client.execute(method, {})

NoMethodError: undefined method `join' for 
#<Google::APIClient::Method:0x3fd009025aa8 ID:analytics:v3>

See, just doing $client.execute('analytics.data.ga.get', {}) returned nothing 
but errors, that led me to this current error that I think line 107 is wrong... 
maybe you meant URI::Template.join

Original comment by phi...@ingraminternet.com on 26 Jun 2012 at 10:51

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Original comment by bobaman@google.com on 23 Jul 2012 at 7:37

• Added labels: Component-Docs, Milestone-Release-Beta

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Original comment by bobaman@google.com on 23 Jul 2012 at 7:38

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AFAIK, service accounts aren't supported with analytics API. Will add analytics 
sample and a service accounts sample, but won't be in the same one. Service 
accounts is currently limited to APIs like storage & prediction.

Original comment by sba...@google.com on 23 Jul 2012 at 9:44

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As a stopgap until formal documentation shows up, here's a quick blog post I 
wrote up for using SA auth with Google analytics:

Working example code:
http://ominian.com/2012/07/12/service-accounts-with-ruby-and-the-google-api-clie
nt/

And a complete Gist file here https://gist.github.com/3166610

It's a little slow, but it does work.  I would use the Analytics explorer tool 
here http://ga-dev-tools.appspot.com/explorer/ to build your queries and then 
go from there.

Original comment by ward.dav...@gmail.com on 23 Jul 2012 at 10:23

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Ah, inviting the service account through analytics works for auth :)

Original comment by sba...@google.com on 23 Jul 2012 at 10:55

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Hehe, that's actually pretty clever.

Original comment by bobaman@google.com on 24 Jul 2012 at 12:29

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Added to the samples repository.

Original comment by sba...@google.com on 24 Jul 2012 at 9:56

• Changed state: Fixed

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Might want to mention in the sample to add the SA email address to the desired 
Google analytics profile to allow for access.

Original comment by ward.dav...@gmail.com on 25 Jul 2012 at 4:32