Google Analytics: User does not have sufficient permissions for this profile

Question

I am unable to access the Google Analytics API from rails. I keep getting insufficient permissions even though I have already set the service account.

I have created a service account:

Go to the project in console.developers.google.com/iam-admin/serviceaccounts
I go to Service Accounts > Create Service Accounts
Then select account and add a key. This will download a JSON file with the service account.

After having the service account and have the secret JSON file and the email. Then I go to Google Analytics:

Go to Admin > Select Property > Property User Management > Add User
Copy the Service Account email and select Read & Analyze

Once I have that, pretty much use the following code: https://gist.github.com/CoryFoy/9edf1e039e174c00c209e930a1720ce0 to get the reports.

But I keep getting forbidden: User does not have sufficient permissions for this profile. Even when I try to get the access_token and use it in javascript:

gapi.analytics.auth.authorize({
  serverAuth: {
    access_token: 'accessToken'
  }
});

I get:

error:{
  code: 403
  errors: [  
    {  
      domain: "global"
      message: "User does not have sufficient permissions for this profile."
      reason: "insufficientPermissions"
    }
  ]
}

Am I missing something? This used to work and I never had a problem with it, but for some reason it stopped working. Any guidance will be appreciate it.

Thank you!

Victor Luna Victor Luna · Accepted Answer · 2020-12-02T14:11:04

This has something to do with how you create an analytics property. Since they remove the views from analytics 4, now you need to create a universal analytics property.

In account click on "Create Property"
Fill the fields and click on "Show advance options"
Activate "Create a Universal Analytics property"
Add the website url in the field and then make sure "Create both a Google Analytics 4 ...." and "Enable enhanced measure interactions on your sites...." are marked.
Then click next and that is it.

The code stays the same as this is an analytics change.

Google Analytics: User does not have sufficient permissions for this profile

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