Code crawler to crawl Asynchronous GA Code

Question

Hello I have a php code crawler to detect a website if it has a Asynchronous Google Code. here's the snippet to detect the the asynch google Code:

$async_ga_string = "ga.async";

if(!strpos($str, $async_ga_string))$async_ga = '';
            else $async_ga = 'yes';

It works fine. But what I exactly needed is for me to able to get the asynch UA code in this google code snippet:

     var _gaq = _gaq || [];
  _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-2595901-1']);
  _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']);

I need to get the 'UA-2595901-1'

really don't have idea what to do know. Still figuring out myself. Thank you for your quick response @xbonez — jalf, Apr 16 '12 at 01:07

Luke Stevenson · Accepted Answer · 2012-04-17T01:38:58.147

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It's an imperfect solution, but the Google Analytics Account ID is almost unique enough to find it using a simple Regular Expression:

<?php
$gaRegExp = '/UA-\d+-\d+/';

$testText = "var _gaq = _gaq || [];
  _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-2595901-1']);
  _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']);"

preg_match( $gaRegExp , $testText , $matches )

// Returns, within the $matches variable, the following
// array (
//  0 => 'UA-2595901-1',
// )

edited Apr 17 '12 at 01:38

answered Apr 16 '12 at 01:48

Luke Stevenson

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where does $matches variable come from? – jalf Apr 16 '12 at 02:17
Hello is there also a regex for detecting a ga.async? instead of using strpos? – jalf Apr 23 '12 at 02:28
The above is a Regular Expression - it is not a `strpos`. Can you make your question clearer? – Luke Stevenson Apr 23 '12 at 02:44

Code crawler to crawl Asynchronous GA Code

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