I have a dashing dashboard set up which I have showing the "ga:activeVisitors' metric. This works fine and I've no problems there. My question is how do I show a different stat that my ga is capturing for example... On one of my GA dashboards I have a widget showing a real time value of another metric. How would I reference that instead of the ga:activeVisitors metric?
my code is as follows:
require 'google/api_client'
require 'date'
# Update these to match your own apps credentials
service_account_email = '[email]' # Email of service account key_file = '[key file path]' # File containing your private key key_secret = 'secret' # Password to unlock private key profile_id = 'profile' # Analytics profile ID.
# Get the Google API client
client = Google::APIClient.new(
:application_name => '[app name]',
:application_version => '0.01'
)
visitors = []
# Load your credentials for the service account
key = Google::APIClient::KeyUtils.load_from_pkcs12(key_file, key_secret)
client.authorization = Signet::OAuth2::Client.new(
:token_credential_uri => 'https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/token',
:audience => 'https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/token',
:scope => 'https://www.googleapis.com/auth/analytics.readonly',
:issuer => service_account_email,
:signing_key => key)
# Start the scheduler
SCHEDULER.every '1s', :first_in => 0 do
# Request a token for our service account
client.authorization.fetch_access_token!
# Get the analytics API
analytics = client.discovered_api('analytics','v3')
# Execute the query
response = client.execute(:api_method => analytics.data.realtime.get, :parameters => {
'ids' => "ga:" + profile_id,
'metrics' => "ga:activeVisitors",
})
visitors << { x: Time.now.to_i, y: response.data.rows }
# Update the dashboard
send_event('visitor_count_real_time', points: visitors)
end
