> HttpWebRequest req = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create("https://www.google.com/accounts/ClientLogin");

> req.Headers.Add("accountType", "GOOGLE");
> req.Headers.Add("Email", "my email...");
> req.Headers.Add("Passwd", "my password...");
> req.Headers.Add("service", "analytics");
> req.Headers.Add("source", "test-test-1.00");

> HttpWebResponse res = (HttpWebResponse)req.GetResponse();

> Any thoughts???

> Eric

> On Oct 7, 3:16 am,Marty<mburo...@gmail.com> wrote:

> > I'm having a hard time authenticating into my Google Analytics account
> > with C#.  I get a 403 forbidden error message with the following code:

> > HttpWebRequest req = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create("https://www.google.com/accounts/ClientLogin");

> > req.Headers.Add("accountType", "GOOGLE");
> > req.Headers.Add("Email", "my email...");
> > req.Headers.Add("Passwd", "my password...");
> > req.Headers.Add("service", "analytics");
> > req.Headers.Add("source", "test-test-1.00");

> > HttpWebResponse res = (HttpWebResponse)req.GetResponse();

> > Any thoughts???

> string sreq = "https://www.google.com/accounts/ClientLogin?
> accountType=HOSTED_OR_GOOGLE&Email=" + username + "&Passwd=" +
> password + "&service=analytics&source=test-test-v1";
> HttpWebRequest req = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(sreq);
> HttpWebResponse res = (HttpWebResponse)req.GetResponse();

> The following IDs were returned: SID, LSID, and Auth.  I'm not sure
> what I'm supposed to do with these IDs.

> For starters, I'd like to login into my Google Analytics account and
> pull any number.

> I've found the following data export protocol, but I'm not sure how my
> Auth token fits in with this, and I'm really confused about the ids
> that I need.  Where exactly do I find those?

> string sreq = "https://www.google.com/accounts/analytics/feeds/data?
> start-date=2008-10-01&end-
> date=2008-10-31&dimensions=ga:source,ga:medium";
> sreq = sreq + "&metrics=ga:visits,ga:bounces&sort=-
> ga:visits&filters=ga:medium%3D%3Dreferral&max-results=5&ids=ga:xxxxx
> &prettyprint=true";
> HttpWebRequest req = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(sreq);
> HttpWebResponse res = (HttpWebResponse)req.GetResponse();

> Thanks,Marty

> On Oct 7, 12:52 am, "Eric (Google)" <api.e...@google.com> wrote:

> > Hmm, well you're adding those parameters as headers.
> > Rather, you need to add them as form encoded to the body
> > of the request:http://code.google.com/apis/accounts/docs/AuthForInstalledApps.html#R...

> > Eric

> > On Oct 7, 3:16 am,Marty<mburo...@gmail.com> wrote:

> > > I'm having a hard time authenticating into my Google Analytics account
> > > with C#.  I get a 403 forbidden error message with the following code:

> > > HttpWebRequest req = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create("https://www.google.com/accounts/ClientLogin");

> > > req.Headers.Add("accountType", "GOOGLE");
> > > req.Headers.Add("Email", "my email...");
> > > req.Headers.Add("Passwd", "my password...");
> > > req.Headers.Add("service", "analytics");
> > > req.Headers.Add("source", "test-test-1.00");

> > > HttpWebResponse res = (HttpWebResponse)req.GetResponse();

> > > Any thoughts???

> http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/gdata/gdataExplorer.html

> However, I get an "unauthorized" error when I tried to use this.  Do I
> have to pass an auth token into the header or something?

> https://www.google.com/analytics/feeds/data?ids=ga%xxxxx&dimensions=g...";

> Thanks,Marty

> On Oct 9, 10:16 am,Marty<mburo...@gmail.com> wrote:

> > I was able to login in using the following C# syntax:

> > string sreq = "https://www.google.com/accounts/ClientLogin?
> > accountType=HOSTED_OR_GOOGLE&Email=" + username + "&Passwd=" +
> > password + "&service=analytics&source=test-test-v1";
> > HttpWebRequest req = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(sreq);
> > HttpWebResponse res = (HttpWebResponse)req.GetResponse();

> > The following IDs were returned: SID, LSID, and Auth.  I'm not sure
> > what I'm supposed to do with these IDs.

> > For starters, I'd like to login into my Google Analytics account and
> > pull any number.

> > I've found the following data export protocol, but I'm not sure how my
> > Auth token fits in with this, and I'm really confused about the ids
> > that I need.  Where exactly do I find those?

> > string sreq = "https://www.google.com/accounts/analytics/feeds/data?
> > start-date=2008-10-01&end-
> > date=2008-10-31&dimensions=ga:source,ga:medium";
> > sreq = sreq + "&metrics=ga:visits,ga:bounces&sort=-
> > ga:visits&filters=ga:medium%3D%3Dreferral&max-results=5&ids=ga:xxxxx
> > &prettyprint=true";
> > HttpWebRequest req = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(sreq);
> > HttpWebResponse res = (HttpWebResponse)req.GetResponse();

> > Thanks,Marty

> > On Oct 7, 12:52 am, "Eric (Google)" <api.e...@google.com> wrote:

> > > Hmm, well you're adding those parameters as headers.
> > > Rather, you need to add them as form encoded to the body
> > > of the request:http://code.google.com/apis/accounts/docs/AuthForInstalledApps.html#R...

> > > Eric

> > > On Oct 7, 3:16 am,Marty<mburo...@gmail.com> wrote:

> > > > I'm having a hard time authenticating into my Google Analytics account
> > > > with C#.  I get a 403 forbidden error message with the following code:

> > > > HttpWebRequest req = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create("https://www.google.com/accounts/ClientLogin");

> > > > req.Headers.Add("accountType", "GOOGLE");
> > > > req.Headers.Add("Email", "my email...");
> > > > req.Headers.Add("Passwd", "my password...");
> > > > req.Headers.Add("service", "analytics");
> > > > req.Headers.Add("source", "test-test-1.00");

> > > > HttpWebResponse res = (HttpWebResponse)req.GetResponse();

> > > > Any thoughts???

> Hopefully this will help somebody else.

> namespace GA
> {
>     public class GoogleAnalytics
>     {
>         public string SID { get; set; }  // Have no idea what this is
> used for.
>         public string LSID { get; set; } // Have no idea what this is
> used for.
>         public string Auth { get; set; } // Our authorization token
> sent in ExecuteQuery().

>         /// <summary>
>         /// Simple client login.
>         /// </summary>
>         /// <param name="username"></param>
>         /// <param name="password"></param>
>         public void Login( string username, string password)
>         {
>             string sreq = "https://www.google.com/accounts/ClientLogin?
> accountType=HOSTED_OR_GOOGLE&Email=" + username + "&Passwd=" +
> password + "&service=analytics&source=test-test-v1";
>             HttpWebRequest req = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create
> (sreq);
>             HttpWebResponse res = (HttpWebResponse)req.GetResponse();

>             Stream responseBody = res.GetResponseStream();
>             Encoding encode = System.Text.Encoding.GetEncoding
> ("utf-8");
>             StreamReader readStream = new StreamReader(responseBody,
> encode);
>             string loginStuff = readStream.ReadToEnd();

>             SID = loginStuff.Substring(0, loginStuff.IndexOf
> ("LSID")).Replace( "SID=","").TrimEnd( '\n' );
>             LSID = loginStuff.Substring(loginStuff.IndexOf("LSID"),
> (loginStuff.IndexOf("Auth") - loginStuff.IndexOf("LSID"))).Replace
> ( "LSID=", "" ).TrimEnd( '\n' );
>             Auth = loginStuff.Substring(loginStuff.IndexOf
> ("Auth")).Replace( "Auth=", "" ).TrimEnd('\n');
>         }

>         /// <summary>
>         /// Adds the authorization token created from Login() to our
> request and executes our query based on
>         /// the query created at:http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/gdata/gdataExplorer.html.
>         ///
>         /// The basic RSS format:
>         ///
>         /// <rss xmlns:dxp="http://schemas.google.com/analytics/2009"
> xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:openSearch="http://
> a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/" version="2.0">
>         /// <channel>
>         /// <description />
>         /// <atom:id></atom:id>
>         /// <lastBuildDate></lastBuildDate>
>         /// <title></title>
>         /// <managingEditor></managingEditor>
>         /// <generator></generator>
>         /// <openSearch:totalResults>1</openSearch:totalResults>
>         /// <openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex>
>         /// <openSearch:itemsPerPage>50</openSearch:itemsPerPage>
>         /// <dxp:aggregates>
>         /// <dxp:metric confidenceInterval="0.0" name="ga:visits"
> type="integer" value="150" />
>         /// </dxp:aggregates>
>         /// <dxp:dataSource>
>         /// <dxp:property name="ga:profileId" value="15804376" />
>         /// <dxp:property name="ga:webPropertyId" value="UA-379213-2" /

>         /// <dxp:property name="ga:accountName" value="mburolla" />
>         /// <dxp:tableId></dxp:tableId>
>         /// <dxp:tableName></dxp:tableName>
>         /// </dxp:dataSource>
>         /// <dxp:endDate></dxp:endDate>
>         /// <dxp:startDate></dxp:startDate>
>         ///     <item>
>         ///        <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.google.com/
> analytics/feeds/data?ids=ga:XXXX&ga:year=2009&start-
> date=2009-03-01&end-date=2009-10-09</guid>
>         ///        <atom:updated></atom:updated>
>         ///        <title></title>
>         ///        <link></link>
>         ///        <dxp:dimension name="ga:year" value="2009" />
>         ///        <dxp:metric confidenceInterval="0.0"
> name="ga:visits" type="integer" value="150" />
>         ///     </item>
>         /// </channel>
>         /// </rss>
>         /// </summary>
>         /// <param name="dataExportQuery"></param>
>         /// <returns></returns>
>         public string ExecuteQuery(string dataExportQuery)
>         {
>             string retval = "";
>             dataExportQuery = dataExportQuery + "&alt=rss"; // Formats
> the content to the RSS spec (couldn't parse the atom files).
>             HttpWebRequest req = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create
> (dataExportQuery);
>             req.Headers.Add("Authorization: GoogleLogin auth=" +
> Auth);
>             HttpWebResponse res = (HttpWebResponse)req.GetResponse();
>             Stream responseBody = res.GetResponseStream();
>             Encoding encode = System.Text.Encoding.GetEncoding
> ("utf-8");
>             StreamReader readStream = new StreamReader(responseBody,
> encode);
>             XmlDocument d = new XmlDocument();
>             d.LoadXml(readStream.ReadToEnd());

>             XmlNodeList nl = d.DocumentElement.SelectNodes("/rss/
> channel/item");

>             foreach (XmlNode n in nl)
>             {
>                 foreach (XmlNode nn in n.ChildNodes)
>                 {
>                     if ( nn.Name == "dxp:dimension" )
>                         retval="Year: " + nn.Attributes
> [ "value" ].Value;

>                     if ( nn.Name == "dxp:metric" )
>                     {
>                         retval+= ( ", Visits: " + nn.Attributes
> [ "value" ].Value );
>                         break;
>                     }
>                 }
>             }

>             return retval;
>         }

>     }

> }

> On Oct 9, 10:28 am, Marty <mburo...@gmail.com> wrote:

> > Actually, I discovered the data export app which answers a lot of my
> > questions:

> >http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/gdata/gdataExplorer.html

> > However, I get an "unauthorized" error when I tried to use this.  Do I
> > have to pass an auth token into the header or something?

> >https://www.google.com/analytics/feeds/data?ids=ga%xxxxx&dimensions=g...";

> > Thanks,Marty

> > On Oct 9, 10:16 am,Marty<mburo...@gmail.com> wrote:

> > > I was able to login in using the following C# syntax:

> > > string sreq = "https://www.google.com/accounts/ClientLogin?
> > > accountType=HOSTED_OR_GOOGLE&Email=" + username + "&Passwd=" +
> > > password + "&service=analytics&source=test-test-v1";
> > > HttpWebRequest req = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(sreq);
> > > HttpWebResponse res = (HttpWebResponse)req.GetResponse();

> > > The following IDs were returned: SID, LSID, and Auth.  I'm not sure
> > > what I'm supposed to do with these IDs.

> > > For starters, I'd like to login into my Google Analytics account and
> > > pull any number.

> > > I've found the following data export protocol, but I'm not sure how my
> > > Auth token fits in with this, and I'm really confused about the ids
> > > that I need.  Where exactly do I find those?

> > > string sreq = "https://www.google.com/accounts/analytics/feeds/data?
> > > start-date=2008-10-01&end-
> > > date=2008-10-31&dimensions=ga:source,ga:medium";
> > > sreq = sreq + "&metrics=ga:visits,ga:bounces&sort=-
> > > ga:visits&filters=ga:medium%3D%3Dreferral&max-results=5&ids=ga:xxxxx
> > > &prettyprint=true";
> > > HttpWebRequest req = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(sreq);
> > > HttpWebResponse res = (HttpWebResponse)req.GetResponse();

> > > Thanks,Marty

> > > On Oct 7, 12:52 am, "Eric (Google)" <api.e...@google.com> wrote:

> > > > Hmm, well you're adding those parameters as headers.
> > > > Rather, you need to add them as form encoded to the body
> > > > of the request:http://code.google.com/apis/accounts/docs/AuthForInstalledApps.html#R...

> > > > Eric

> > > > On Oct 7, 3:16 am,Marty<mburo...@gmail.com> wrote:

> > > > > I'm having a hard time authenticating into my Google Analytics account
> > > > > with C#.  I get a 403 forbidden error message with the following code:

> > > > > HttpWebRequest req = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create("https://www.google.com/accounts/ClientLogin");

> > > > > req.Headers.Add("accountType", "GOOGLE");
> > > > > req.Headers.Add("Email", "my email...");
> > > > > req.Headers.Add("Passwd", "my password...");
> > > > > req.Headers.Add("service", "analytics");
> > > > > req.Headers.Add("source", "test-test-1.00");

> > > > > HttpWebResponse res = (HttpWebResponse)req.GetResponse();

> > > > > Any thoughts???

> Hopefully this will help somebody else.

> namespace GA
> {
>     public class GoogleAnalytics
>     {
>         public string SID { get; set; }  // Have no idea what this is
> used for.
>         public string LSID { get; set; } // Have no idea what this is
> used for.
>         public string Auth { get; set; } // Our authorization token
> sent in ExecuteQuery().

>         /// <summary>
>         /// Simple client login.
>         /// </summary>
>         /// <param name="username"></param>
>         /// <param name="password"></param>
>         public void Login( string username, string password)
>         {
>             string sreq = "https://www.google.com/accounts/ClientLogin?
> accountType=HOSTED_OR_GOOGLE&Email=" + username + "&Passwd=" +
> password + "&service=analytics&source=test-test-v1";
>             HttpWebRequest req = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create
> (sreq);
>             HttpWebResponse res = (HttpWebResponse)req.GetResponse();

>             Stream responseBody = res.GetResponseStream();
>             Encoding encode = System.Text.Encoding.GetEncoding
> ("utf-8");
>             StreamReader readStream = new StreamReader(responseBody,
> encode);
>             string loginStuff = readStream.ReadToEnd();

>             SID = loginStuff.Substring(0, loginStuff.IndexOf
> ("LSID")).Replace( "SID=","").TrimEnd( '\n' );
>             LSID = loginStuff.Substring(loginStuff.IndexOf("LSID"),
> (loginStuff.IndexOf("Auth") - loginStuff.IndexOf("LSID"))).Replace
> ( "LSID=", "" ).TrimEnd( '\n' );
>             Auth = loginStuff.Substring(loginStuff.IndexOf
> ("Auth")).Replace( "Auth=", "" ).TrimEnd('\n');
>         }

>         /// <summary>
>         /// Adds the authorization token created from Login() to our
> request and executes our query based on
>         /// the query created at:http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/gdata/gdataExplorer.html.
>         ///
>         /// The basic RSS format:
>         ///
>         /// <rss xmlns:dxp="http://schemas.google.com/analytics/2009"
> xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:openSearch="http://
> a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/" version="2.0">
>         /// <channel>
>         /// <description />
>         /// <atom:id></atom:id>
>         /// <lastBuildDate></lastBuildDate>
>         /// <title></title>
>         /// <managingEditor></managingEditor>
>         /// <generator></generator>
>         /// <openSearch:totalResults>1</openSearch:totalResults>
>         /// <openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex>
>         /// <openSearch:itemsPerPage>50</openSearch:itemsPerPage>
>         /// <dxp:aggregates>
>         /// <dxp:metric confidenceInterval="0.0" name="ga:visits"
> type="integer" value="150" />
>         /// </dxp:aggregates>
>         /// <dxp:dataSource>
>         /// <dxp:property name="ga:profileId" value="15804376" />
>         /// <dxp:property name="ga:webPropertyId" value="UA-379213-2" /

>         /// <dxp:property name="ga:accountName" value="mburolla" />
>         /// <dxp:tableId></dxp:tableId>
>         /// <dxp:tableName></dxp:tableName>
>         /// </dxp:dataSource>
>         /// <dxp:endDate></dxp:endDate>
>         /// <dxp:startDate></dxp:startDate>
>         ///     <item>
>         ///        <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.google.com/
> analytics/feeds/data?ids=ga:XXXX&ga:year=2009&start-
> date=2009-03-01&end-date=2009-10-09</guid>
>         ///        <atom:updated></atom:updated>
>         ///        <title></title>
>         ///        <link></link>
>         ///        <dxp:dimension name="ga:year" value="2009" />
>         ///        <dxp:metric confidenceInterval="0.0"
> name="ga:visits" type="integer" value="150" />
>         ///     </item>
>         /// </channel>
>         /// </rss>
>         /// </summary>
>         /// <param name="dataExportQuery"></param>
>         /// <returns></returns>
>         public string ExecuteQuery(string dataExportQuery)
>         {
>             string retval = "";
>             dataExportQuery = dataExportQuery + "&alt=rss"; // Formats
> the content to the RSS spec (couldn't parse the atom files).
>             HttpWebRequest req = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create
> (dataExportQuery);
>             req.Headers.Add("Authorization: GoogleLogin auth=" +
> Auth);
>             HttpWebResponse res = (HttpWebResponse)req.GetResponse();
>             Stream responseBody = res.GetResponseStream();
>             Encoding encode = System.Text.Encoding.GetEncoding
> ("utf-8");
>             StreamReader readStream = new StreamReader(responseBody,
> encode);
>             XmlDocument d = new XmlDocument();
>             d.LoadXml(readStream.ReadToEnd());

>             XmlNodeList nl = d.DocumentElement.SelectNodes("/rss/
> channel/item");

>             foreach (XmlNode n in nl)
>             {
>                 foreach (XmlNode nn in n.ChildNodes)
>                 {
>                     if ( nn.Name == "dxp:dimension" )
>                         retval="Year: " + nn.Attributes
> [ "value" ].Value;

>                     if ( nn.Name == "dxp:metric" )
>                     {
>                         retval+= ( ", Visits: " + nn.Attributes
> [ "value" ].Value );
>                         break;
>                     }
>                 }
>             }

>             return retval;
>         }

>     }

> }

> On Oct 9, 10:28 am, Marty <mburo...@gmail.com> wrote:

> > Actually, I discovered the data export app which answers a lot of my
> > questions:

> >http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/gdata/gdataExplorer.html

> > However, I get an "unauthorized" error when I tried to use this.  Do I
> > have to pass an auth token into the header or something?

> >https://www.google.com/analytics/feeds/data?ids=ga%xxxxx&dimensions=g...";

> > Thanks,Marty

> > On Oct 9, 10:16 am,Marty<mburo...@gmail.com> wrote:

> > > I was able to login in using the following C# syntax:

> > > string sreq = "https://www.google.com/accounts/ClientLogin?
> > > accountType=HOSTED_OR_GOOGLE&Email=" + username + "&Passwd=" +
> > > password + "&service=analytics&source=test-test-v1";
> > > HttpWebRequest req = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(sreq);
> > > HttpWebResponse res = (HttpWebResponse)req.GetResponse();

> > > The following IDs were returned: SID, LSID, and Auth.  I'm not sure
> > > what I'm supposed to do with these IDs.

> > > For starters, I'd like to login into my Google Analytics account and
> > > pull any number.

> > > I've found the following data export protocol, but I'm not sure how my
> > > Auth token fits in with this, and I'm really confused about the ids
> > > that I need.  Where exactly do I find those?

> > > string sreq = "https://www.google.com/accounts/analytics/feeds/data?
> > > start-date=2008-10-01&end-
> > > date=2008-10-31&dimensions=ga:source,ga:medium";
> > > sreq = sreq + "&metrics=ga:visits,ga:bounces&sort=-
> > > ga:visits&filters=ga:medium%3D%3Dreferral&max-results=5&ids=ga:xxxxx
> > > &prettyprint=true";
> > > HttpWebRequest req = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(sreq);
> > > HttpWebResponse res = (HttpWebResponse)req.GetResponse();

> > > Thanks,Marty

> > > On Oct 7, 12:52 am, "Eric (Google)" <api.e...@google.com> wrote:

> > > > Hmm, well you're adding those parameters as headers.
> > > > Rather, you need to add them as form encoded to the body
> > > > of the request:http://code.google.com/apis/accounts/docs/AuthForInstalledApps.html#R...

> > > > Eric

> > > > On Oct 7, 3:16 am,Marty<mburo...@gmail.com> wrote:

> > > > > I'm having a hard time authenticating into my Google Analytics account
> > > > > with C#.  I get a 403 forbidden error message with the following code:

> > > > > HttpWebRequest req = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create("https://www.google.com/accounts/ClientLogin");

> > > > > req.Headers.Add("accountType", "GOOGLE");
> > > > > req.Headers.Add("Email", "my email...");
> > > > > req.Headers.Add("Passwd", "my password...");
> > > > > req.Headers.Add("service", "analytics");
> > > > > req.Headers.Add("source", "test-test-1.00");

> > > > > HttpWebResponse res = (HttpWebResponse)req.GetResponse();

> > > > > Any thoughts???

> Hopefully this will help somebody else.

> namespace GA
> {
>     public class GoogleAnalytics
>     {
>         public string SID { get; set; }  // Have no idea what this is
> used for.
>         public string LSID { get; set; } // Have no idea what this is
> used for.
>         public string Auth { get; set; } // Our authorization token
> sent in ExecuteQuery().

>         /// <summary>
>         /// Simple client login.
>         /// </summary>
>         /// <param name="username"></param>
>         /// <param name="password"></param>
>         public void Login( string username, string password)
>         {
>             string sreq = "https://www.google.com/accounts/ClientLogin?
> accountType=HOSTED_OR_GOOGLE&Email=" + username + "&Passwd=" +
> password + "&service=analytics&source=test-test-v1";
>             HttpWebRequest req = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create
> (sreq);
>             HttpWebResponse res = (HttpWebResponse)req.GetResponse();

>             Stream responseBody = res.GetResponseStream();
>             Encoding encode = System.Text.Encoding.GetEncoding
> ("utf-8");
>             StreamReader readStream = new StreamReader(responseBody,
> encode);
>             string loginStuff = readStream.ReadToEnd();

>             SID = loginStuff.Substring(0, loginStuff.IndexOf
> ("LSID")).Replace( "SID=","").TrimEnd( '\n' );
>             LSID = loginStuff.Substring(loginStuff.IndexOf("LSID"),
> (loginStuff.IndexOf("Auth") - loginStuff.IndexOf("LSID"))).Replace
> ( "LSID=", "" ).TrimEnd( '\n' );
>             Auth = loginStuff.Substring(loginStuff.IndexOf
> ("Auth")).Replace( "Auth=", "" ).TrimEnd('\n');
>         }

>         /// <summary>
>         /// Adds the authorization token created from Login() to our
> request and executes our query based on
>         /// the query created at:http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/gdata/gdataExplorer.html.
>         ///
>         /// The basic RSS format:
>         ///
>         /// <rss xmlns:dxp="http://schemas.google.com/analytics/2009"
> xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:openSearch="http://
> a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/" version="2.0">
>         /// <channel>
>         /// <description />
>         /// <atom:id></atom:id>
>         /// <lastBuildDate></lastBuildDate>
>         /// <title></title>
>         /// <managingEditor></managingEditor>
>         /// <generator></generator>
>         /// <openSearch:totalResults>1</openSearch:totalResults>
>         /// <openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex>
>         /// <openSearch:itemsPerPage>50</openSearch:itemsPerPage>
>         /// <dxp:aggregates>
>         /// <dxp:metric confidenceInterval="0.0" name="ga:visits"
> type="integer" value="150" />
>         /// </dxp:aggregates>
>         /// <dxp:dataSource>
>         /// <dxp:property name="ga:profileId" value="15804376" />
>         /// <dxp:property name="ga:webPropertyId" value="UA-379213-2" /

>         /// <dxp:property name="ga:accountName" value="mburolla" />
>         /// <dxp:tableId></dxp:tableId>
>         /// <dxp:tableName></dxp:tableName>
>         /// </dxp:dataSource>
>         /// <dxp:endDate></dxp:endDate>
>         /// <dxp:startDate></dxp:startDate>
>         ///     <item>
>         ///        <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.google.com/
> analytics/feeds/data?ids=ga:XXXX&ga:year=2009&start-
> date=2009-03-01&end-date=2009-10-09</guid>
>         ///        <atom:updated></atom:updated>
>         ///        <title></title>
>         ///        <link></link>
>         ///        <dxp:dimension name="ga:year" value="2009" />
>         ///        <dxp:metric confidenceInterval="0.0"
> name="ga:visits" type="integer" value="150" />
>         ///     </item>
>         /// </channel>
>         /// </rss>
>         /// </summary>
>         /// <param name="dataExportQuery"></param>
>         /// <returns></returns>
>         public string ExecuteQuery(string dataExportQuery)
>         {
>             string retval = "";
>             dataExportQuery = dataExportQuery + "&alt=rss"; // Formats
> the content to the RSS spec (couldn't parse the atom files).
>             HttpWebRequest req = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create
> (dataExportQuery);
>             req.Headers.Add("Authorization: GoogleLogin auth=" +
> Auth);
>             HttpWebResponse res = (HttpWebResponse)req.GetResponse();
>             Stream responseBody = res.GetResponseStream();
>             Encoding encode = System.Text.Encoding.GetEncoding
> ("utf-8");
>             StreamReader readStream = new StreamReader(responseBody,
> encode);
>             XmlDocument d = new XmlDocument();
>             d.LoadXml(readStream.ReadToEnd());

>             XmlNodeList nl = d.DocumentElement.SelectNodes("/rss/
> channel/item");

>             foreach (XmlNode n in nl)
>             {
>                 foreach (XmlNode nn in n.ChildNodes)
>                 {
>                     if ( nn.Name == "dxp:dimension" )
>                         retval="Year: " + nn.Attributes
> [ "value" ].Value;

>                     if ( nn.Name == "dxp:metric" )
>                     {
>                         retval+= ( ", Visits: " + nn.Attributes
> [ "value" ].Value );
>                         break;
>                     }
>                 }
>             }

>             return retval;
>         }

>     }

> }

> On Oct 9, 10:28 am, Marty <mburo...@gmail.com> wrote:

> > Actually, I discovered the data export app which answers a lot of my
> > questions:

> >http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/gdata/gdataExplorer.html

> > However, I get an "unauthorized" error when I tried to use this.  Do I
> > have to pass an auth token into the header or something?

> >https://www.google.com/analytics/feeds/data?ids=ga%xxxxx&dimensions=g...";

> > Thanks,Marty

> > On Oct 9, 10:16 am,Marty<mburo...@gmail.com> wrote:

> > > I was able to login in using the following C# syntax:

> > > string sreq = "https://www.google.com/accounts/ClientLogin?
> > > accountType=HOSTED_OR_GOOGLE&Email=" + username + "&Passwd=" +
> > > password + "&service=analytics&source=test-test-v1";
> > > HttpWebRequest req = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(sreq);
> > > HttpWebResponse res = (HttpWebResponse)req.GetResponse();

> > > The following IDs were returned: SID, LSID, and Auth.  I'm not sure
> > > what I'm supposed to do with these IDs.

> > > For starters, I'd like to login into my Google Analytics account and
> > > pull any number.

> > > I've found the following data export protocol, but I'm not sure how my
> > > Auth token fits in with this, and I'm really confused about the ids
> > > that I need.  Where exactly do I find those?

> > > string sreq = "https://www.google.com/accounts/analytics/feeds/data?
> > > start-date=2008-10-01&end-
> > > date=2008-10-31&dimensions=ga:source,ga:medium";
> > > sreq = sreq + "&metrics=ga:visits,ga:bounces&sort=-
> > > ga:visits&filters=ga:medium%3D%3Dreferral&max-results=5&ids=ga:xxxxx
> > > &prettyprint=true";
> > > HttpWebRequest req = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(sreq);
> > > HttpWebResponse res = (HttpWebResponse)req.GetResponse();

> > > Thanks,Marty

> > > On Oct 7, 12:52 am, "Eric (Google)" <api.e...@google.com> wrote:

> > > > Hmm, well you're adding those parameters as headers.
> > > > Rather, you need to add them as form encoded to the body
> > > > of the request:http://code.google.com/apis/accounts/docs/AuthForInstalledApps.html#R...

> > > > Eric

> > > > On Oct 7, 3:16 am,Marty<mburo...@gmail.com> wrote:

> > > > > I'm having a hard time authenticating into my Google Analytics account
> > > > > with C#.  I get a 403 forbidden error message with the following code:

> > > > > HttpWebRequest req = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create("https://www.google.com/accounts/ClientLogin");

> > > > > req.Headers.Add("accountType", "GOOGLE");
> > > > > req.Headers.Add("Email", "my email...");
> > > > > req.Headers.Add("Passwd", "my password...");
> > > > > req.Headers.Add("service", "analytics");
> > > > > req.Headers.Add("source", "test-test-1.00");

> > > > > HttpWebResponse res = (HttpWebResponse)req.GetResponse();

> > > > > Any thoughts???