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Display Top URLs With Google Analytics API (PHP)

e can use Core Reporting API to fetch top (Popular) URLs from Google Analytics. Using Google APIPHP Client (https://code.google.com/p/google-api-php-client/downloads/list) let’s create a

simple PHP page that pulls website’s top URLs from Google Analytics and updates MySql table. Onceyou are familiar, I am sure you can do lot more, I mean just checkout the information you can retrievein this Reporting API (http://ga-dev-tools.appspot.com/explorer/).

Let’s start by creating MySql table called google_top_pages , table contains 4 columns (id, page_uri,page_title, total_views). You can run this query in your PhpMyAdmin to have this table created.

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CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `google_top_pages` ( `id` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, `page_uri` varchar(60) NOT NULL, `page_title` varchar(60) NOT NULL, `total_views` int(11) NOT NULL, PRIMARY KEY (`id`)) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1 AUTO_INCREMENT=0 ;

Configuration

This is important part:

1. Create Google OAuth API Keys (http://www.sanwebe.com/2012/10/creating-google-oauth-api-key) and get Client IDand secret.

2. Enter redirect url in Google Redirect URI (http://www.sanwebe.com/2012/01/set-authorized-redirect-uris-in-google-api-console), or you will get redirect mismatch error.

3. Enable Analytics API in Google APIs Console (https://code.google.com/apis/console/)->Services Page.

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In Google Analytics Settings below, enter your site’s Analytics profile id like this : “ga:ProfileID”. Enter number of resultsyou want to fetch, you can play around with dimensions and metrics later and don’t forget to enter MySql details.

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<?php########## Google Settings.. Client ID, Client Secret #############$google_client_id = '12345678901112.apps.googleusercontent.com';$google_client_secret = 'XYZ_1234_abcdXYZ';$google_redirect_url = 'http://yoursite.com/update_pages.php';$page_url_prefix = 'http://www.sanwebe.com';

########## Google analytics Settings.. #############$google_analytics_profile_id = 'ga:123456'; //Analytics site Profile ID$google_analytics_dimensions = 'ga:landingPagePath,ga:pageTitle'; //no change needed (optional)$google_analytics_metrics = 'ga:pageviews'; //no change needed (optional)$google_analytics_sort_by = '-ga:pageviews'; //no change needed (optional)$google_analytics_max_results = '20'; //no change needed (optional)

########## MySql details #############$db_username = "db_user_name"; //Database Username$db_password = "xxxxxx"; //Database Password$hostname = "localhost"; //Mysql Hostname$db_name = 'xxxxxx'; //Database Name###################################################################

$mysqli = new mysqli($hostname,$db_username,$db_password,$db_name);

Updating Top Pages

If everything is set correctly in configuration file, PHP page below should run without any trouble. We can run this pageonce or twice a month to fetch top pages from Google Analytics, and store them in MySql database for later retrieval.We need to authenticate user first, and once we have the access token, we can proceed further with Analytics services.Please go though comment lines to understand the process.

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<?php//start sessionsession_start();

//include configuration fileinclude_once("config.php");

//include google api filesrequire_once 'src/Google_Client.php';require_once 'src/contrib/Google_AnalyticsService.php';

$gClient = new Google_Client();$gClient->setApplicationName('Login to saaraan.com');$gClient->setClientId($google_client_id);$gClient->setClientSecret($google_client_secret);$gClient->setRedirectUri($google_redirect_url);$gClient->setScopes(array('https://www.googleapis.com/auth/analytics.readonly'));$gClient->setUseObjects(true);

//check for session variableif (isset($_SESSION["token"])) {

//set start date to previous month $start_date = date("Y-m-d", strtotime("-1 month") ); //end date as today $end_date = date("Y-m-d"); try{ //set access token $gClient->setAccessToken($_SESSION["token"]);

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//create analytics services object $analyticsService = new Google_AnalyticsService($gClient); //analytics parameters (check configuration file) $params = array('dimensions' => $google_analytics_dimensions,'sort' => $google_analytics_sort_by,'filters' => 'ga:medium==organic' //get results from google analytics $results = $analyticsService->data_ga->get($google_analytics_profile_id,$start_date,$end_date, $google_analytics_metrics } catch(Exception $e){ //do we have an error? echo $e->getMessage(); //display error } $pages = array(); $rows = $results->rows; if($rows) { echo '<ul>'; foreach($rows as $row) { //prepare values for db insert $pages[] = '("'.$row[0].'","'.$row[1].'",'.$row[2].')'; //output top page link echo '<li><a href="'.$page_url_prefix.$row[0].'">'.$row[1].'</a></li>'; } echo '</ul>'; //empty table $mysqli->query("TRUNCATE TABLE google_top_pages"); //insert all new top pages in the table if($mysqli->query("INSERT INTO google_top_pages (page_uri, page_title, total_views) VALUES ".implode(',', $pages { echo '<br />Records updated...'; }else{ echo $mysqli->error; } } }else{ //authenticate user if (isset($_GET['code'])) { $gClient->authenticate(); $token = $gClient->getAccessToken(); $_SESSION["token"] = $token; header('Location: ' . filter_var($google_redirect_url, FILTER_SANITIZE_URL)); }else{ $gClient->authenticate(); }}

Retrieving Top URLs from DB

When the top URLs are stored in database, here’s how we can retrieve the records from database. You can display itanywhere you like, such as on the sidebar or footer of your website etc.

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<?php//include configuration fileinclude_once("config.php");

//get all records from db table$results = $mysqli->query("SELECT page_uri, page_title, total_views FROM google_top_pages ORDER BY total_views ASC");

//list all top pages on screenecho '<ul class="page_result">';

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while($row = mysqli_fetch_array($results)){ echo '<li><a href="'.$page_url_prefix.$row['page_uri'].'">'.$row['page_title'].'</a></li>';}echo '</ul>';

//link to update page for adminecho '<div class="update-button"><a href="update_pages.php">Update top pages list!</a></div>';?>

Demo

If you haven’t noticed, there’s a Highlights widget on the right sidebar of this page, that’s exactly how this script pulls thepopular links of your website.

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TheodisAUGUST 31, 2014 AT 3:27 AM (http://www.sanwebe.com/2013/05/top-viewed-pages-with-google-analytics-api/comment-page-1#comment-18635)

It sure would be nice to get this updated for the new library! 1.0.0 Thanks!

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MeetMARCH 25, 2014 AT 8:42 AM (http://www.sanwebe.com/2013/05/top-viewed-pages-with-google-analytics-api/comment-page-1#comment-6324)

thats place where im getting stuck ::

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$rows = $results-&gt;rows; if($rows) {

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echo 'c'; //thats i put just for testing that im in that loop or not// i am not getting anything in output....not even any error......help me

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MeetMARCH 25, 2014 AT 8:45 AM (http://www.sanwebe.com/2013/05/top-viewed-pages-with-google-analytics-api/comment-page-1#comment-6325)

i needed a script to get google search for some of my keywords and top 10 result of that search i want…..

can you help me regarding this ?

Thank You…..

AkramFEBRUARY 26, 2014 AT 2:24 PM (http://www.sanwebe.com/2013/05/top-viewed-pages-with-google-analytics-api/comment-page-1#comment-5706)

DemoIf you haven’t noticed, there’s a Popular Page widget on the sidebar of this page.

Which one, left, right, top ?Thanks

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Saran (Http://Www.Sanwebe.Com)FEBRUARY 26, 2014 AT 3:06 PM (http://www.sanwebe.com/2013/05/top-viewed-pages-with-google-analytics-api/comment-page-1#comment-5707)

Sorry, I was talking about “Highlights” widget on the right side. It was “Popular pages” earlier, I apologize for that.

AkramFEBRUARY 26, 2014 AT 8:33 PM (http://www.sanwebe.com/2013/05/top-viewed-pages-with-google-analytics-api/comment-page-1#comment-5710)

Thank you, I appreciate.

GauravFEBRUARY 14, 2014 AT 3:55 AM (http://www.sanwebe.com/2013/05/top-viewed-pages-with-google-analytics-api/comment-page-1#comment-5604)

can u suggest what name give two send ,third code and how to check the results

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Matt Cooper (Http://Www.Linuxtutorial.Co.Uk)DECEMBER 8, 2013 AT 11:07 PM (http://www.sanwebe.com/2013/05/top-viewed-pages-with-google-analytics-api/comment-page-1#comment-4127)

Hi,

I have followed your tutorial through and just seem to get:

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Shreyo (Http://Www.Ondeweb.In)OCTOBER 4, 2013 AT 10:13 AM (http://www.sanwebe.com/2013/05/top-viewed-pages-with-google-analytics-api/comment-page-1#comment-3820)

what are the changes to be made for fetching individual page view/ counts? can i use =filters=ga:pagePath=’ in the api link?please help.thanks,

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If I don’t want use a redirect uri?

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