Google Analytics API

An API for running core Google Analytics Report from Google Analytics Data API for GA4

Purpose

This project is created to remove needs of creating Google Analytics API for each individual project.

Prerequisites

• Node.js

Features

• Connect to Google Analytics Data API using Property ID and Service Account file path provided upon the instantiation of GoogleAnalyticsClient class

Installation

• Run the following commands according to your project's npm manager

// npm
npm add google-analytics-pageviews-api
// yarn
yarn add google-analytics-pageviews-api
// pnpm
pnpm add google-analytics-pageviews-api

How to use

• Input GA Property ID and Google Service Account File Path as params when instantiating the GoogleAnalyticsClient. (It is advised to set both parameters as ENV variables)
• Access the class method to use the client

import { GoogleAnalyticsClient, PageviewsDto } from 'google-analytics-pageviews-api'

const gaPropertyID = '123456789'
const gaCredentialsPath = '/path/to/file'

const gaClient = new GoogleAnalyticsClient(gaPropertyID, gaCredentialsPath)

export async function getPageViews(articleSlug) {
  const pageViewsCount: PageviewsDto = await gaClient.getPageviews(`/articles/${articleSlug}`)
  return pageViewsCount?.viewCount || 0
}
// returned value: {pagePath: provided page path, viewCount: number of page views}

License

Copyright (c) 2023 MeCode