Google Analytics API does not return traffic per dimension (e.g. country/browser)

Question

When I query Google Analytics for traffic (ga:visits,ga:pageviews) filtered by ga:userDefinesValue with no dimension specified, within a time period (e.g. 2012-08-01 to 2012-09-01), I get a result:

Your query matched 1 results and the API only returned the following 1 results:

    ga:visits   ga:pageviews 
    7           21

The problem is that when I add any dimension to the query (e.g. ga:country or ga:pagePath) i get an empty results set:

(none) 
no results found

What could be the reason for this behavior?
Thanks.

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confidentjohn confidentjohn · Accepted Answer · 2013-08-07T15:17:59

From your description you state you are using country and pagePath as a metric, this will fail as they are dimensions.

Add ga:country as a dimension and the report should work.

Google Analytics API does not return traffic per dimension (e.g. country/browser)

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