Google Analytics Data Export API updates July 1st 2009

Posted July 2nd, 2009 in Miscellaneous Postings

Just a quick note for all you Google Analytics API users out there that Google have made some updates to the API. The post on Google Groups can be found here, and I've also copied the information below.

1. Some restrictions on dimension and metric combinations have been relaxed. You can now query most content and visitor level dimensions together, for example ga:pagePath and ga:source is now a valid combination. Please see the updated reference guide for these new combinations: http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/gdata/gdataReferenceDimensionsMetrics.html#explore2Pair

2. The total number of rows that can be asked for in one request has been increased to 10,000. The default is still 1000, but can now be increased by setting the "max-results" query parameter.

3. The Account Feed now returns two new data elements for each table id (currency and timezone)
<dxp:property name='ga:currency' value='USD'/>
<dxp:property name='ga:timezone' value='America/Los_Angeles'/>

4. We're now enforcing that data queries must include at least one valid metric.

5. All previous deprecation changes have taken effect.

End of post from Google Groups.

I will check in the next few days to make sure none of these changes affect my Google Analytics API PHP Class and post any updates if there need to be any. I don't think off the top of my head that anything should need to be changed other than some of the documentation and examples.