REST - Table ID and Authorization token

[Tom]

Hello,

 

I'm totally new to Google Analytics and am trying out the tool on

https://code.google.com/apis/explorer/#_s=analytics&_v=v3&_m=data.ga.get&ids=1&start-date=2012-01-01&end-date=2012-01-02&metrics=ga:visits,ga:page&dimensions=ga:browser,ga:city

 

I'd like to execute the data.ga.get method, but I don't know how to find the ID parameter. I already executed all other methods, but they don't provide me that information. Any ideas?

 

Also, is there a way to integrate the authorization token into your URL? Because for now I'm only able to see a result when I use the OAuth 2.0 playground (https://code.google.com/oauthplayground/).

 

Thank you for your help,

Tom

[Nick]

So the ids query parameter is called the table ID.

The value is ga:xxx where xxx is your profile ID.

You can get the profile ID:

- In the Google Analytics interface configuration section

- the p query parameter in the main Google Analytics interface reports

- Using the management API

If you are brand new to the API, we just published some helloAnalyticsApi tutorials to make it easy to get going: https://developers.google.com/analytics/resources/tutorials/hello-analytics-api

These tutorials do walk you through using the Management API to query the Core Reporting API.

-Nick