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Analyze Google Analytics Data in Infragistics Reveal
Use the CData API Server to create an OData API on top of Google Analytics data and visualize live Google Analytics data in Ingragistics Reveal.
Reveal is a data visualization solution provided by Infragistics and can be paired with the CData API Server and Google Analytics ADO.NET Provider to build dynamic dashboards from live Google Analytics data. The CData API Server generates an OData API for Google Analytics, which is natively consumable in Reveal. In this article, we walk through connecting to Google Analytics in API Server and connecting to the API Server from Infragistics Reveal to create a simple dashboard.
Connect to Google Analytics from API Server
CData API Server uses a straightforward, point-and-click interface to connect to data sources and generate APIs.
- Open API Server and click Settings -> Connection -> Add Connection
- Select "Google Analytics"
- Enter the necessary authentication properties to connect to Google Analytics.
Google uses the OAuth authentication standard. To access Google APIs on behalf on individual users, you can use the embedded credentials or you can register your own OAuth app.
OAuth also enables you to use a service account to connect on behalf of users in a Google Apps domain. To authenticate with a service account, register an application to obtain the OAuth JWT values.
In addition to the OAuth values, set Profile to the profile you want to connect to. This can be set to either the Id or website URL for the Profile. If not specified, the first Profile returned will be used.
Add Google Analytics Resource Definitions in API Server
After connecting to Google Analytics, create Resources, which represent API endpoints for Google Analytics data.
- Click Settings -> Resources -> Add Resource
- Select the Google Analytics connection
- Select the table you wish to retrieve and click Next
- (Optional) Edit the resource to select specific fields and more
- Save the settings
Add an API Server User
Create a User to connect to Google Analytics from Reveal through API Server.
- Click Settings -> Users
- Click Add
- Configure a User with access to the Google Analytics Connection and Resource(s)
(Optional) Configure Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS)
When accessing and connecting to multiple different domains from an application such as Ajax, there is a possibility of violating the limitations of cross-site scripting. In that case, configure the CORS settings in Settings -> Server.
- Enable cross-origin resource sharing (CORS): ON
- Allow all domains without '*': ON
- Access-Control-Allow-Methods: GET, PUT, POST, OPTIONS
- Access-Control-Allow-Headers: Authorization
Save the changes to the settings.
Create a Dashboard in Reveal
With the API Server configured, we can visualize Google Analytics data in Reveal.
- Log into Reveal and click Dashboards -> New
- Click Data Source -> OData Feed
- Specify the API Server API endpoint URL, for example: https://serverurl/api.rsc
- Select Generic Credentials and specify the API Server username and authentication token
- Select the entity you wish to visualize
- Select fields and choose a chart type
More Information & Free Trial
At this point, you have created a simple dashboard from live Google Analytics data. For more information on creating OData feeds from Google Analytics (and more than 150 other sources), visit the API Server page. Download a free, 30-day trial and start working live Google Analytics data in tools that consume OData APIs.
