I have been I’m trying to write a script in R to programmatically update Google Analytics custom dimensions (or metrics) via the Google Analytics Management API.
I have used this page in the documentation to help build the call:
The main issue is that I can send the call but the response is a 404 status and nothing seems to come back. The strange thing is that if I try the ‘Try this API’ section on the documentation page with the same parameters I am able to alter the dimension name. See here:
Here is the R code that I have been using:
library(tidyverse)
library(httr)
ga_edit_auth <- function(client_id,client_secret) {
myapp <- oauth_app("google", client_id,
client_secret)
google_token <- oauth2.0_token(oauth_endpoints("google"), myapp,
scope = "https://www.googleapis.com/auth/analytics.edit")
google_token$init_credentials()
return(google_token)
}
ga_token <- ga_edit_auth(id,secret)
#create the URL
api_url <- "https://www.googleapis.com/analytics/v3/management"
account_slug <- paste('/accounts/',account_id,sep='')
property_slug <- paste('/webproperties/',property_id,sep='')
dim_slug <- '/customDimensions/ga:dimension1'
post_url <- paste(api_url,account_slug,property_slug,dim_slug,sep = '')
#try to change the current dimension name value from 'old' to 'gold'
call <- POST(post_url,
add_headers(Authorization = paste('Bearer', ga_token$credentials$access_token)),
encode = 'json',
body = list(kind = 'analytics#customDimension',
accountId = account_id,
webPropertyId = property_id,
name = 'gold',
index = 1,
scope = 'Hit',
active = TRUE,
id = 'ga:dimension1'
)
)
Then these are the results I get back:
call$status_code
#404
content <- content(call,'parsed')
"
{xml_document}
<html>
[1] <body><p>Not Found</p></body>
"
