Attention Developers: Google Analytics API Launched

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Post by timf » Tue, Apr 21, 2009, 9:17 PM UTC

Attention Developers: Google Analytics API Launched
analytics.blogspot.com

Re: Attention Developers: Google Analytics API Launched

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Post by nixme » Tue, Apr 21, 2009, 9:33 PM UTC

iPhone app anyone? Might even be a nice addition to blog-posting apps to see stats on views, etc.

Re: Attention Developers: Google Analytics API Launched

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Post by FiReaNG3L » Tue, Apr 21, 2009, 9:39 PM UTC

What I really want i a read / write API to Adsense, to be able to do some automatic A/B optimization. Some startups can do it right now, but they involve scraping which is against Google TOS. Not taking the chance to lose my Adsense account for that!

Re: Attention Developers: Google Analytics API Launched

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Post by thorax » Tue, Apr 21, 2009, 10:03 PM UTC

nixme wrote: post #2

iPhone app anyone? Might even be a nice addition to blog-posting apps to see stats on views, etc.

For what it's worth, I find the Clicky iPhone-tweaked page to be a pretty good way for us to get stats on our current usage.

Re: Attention Developers: Google Analytics API Launched

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Post by TJensen » Tue, Apr 21, 2009, 10:22 PM UTC

This seems like the real beginning of the end for Omniture. I interviewed with them once and their strategy for defeating Google in analytics was to just move faster. With Google's developer base, that doesn't seem possible.

Re: Attention Developers: Google Analytics API Launched

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Post by tracy » Tue, Apr 21, 2009, 10:29 PM UTC

The samples don't really seem to be working though. Clicking through auto-inputs an ID, but the next step does not show anything (on the graphs). Does this work for anyone?

Re: Attention Developers: Google Analytics API Launched

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Post by mr_justin » Tue, Apr 21, 2009, 10:30 PM UTC

TJensen wrote: post #5

This seems like the real beginning of the end for Omniture. I interviewed with them once and their strategy for defeating Google in analytics was to just move faster. With Google's developer base, that doesn't seem possible.

Is Omniture really a direct competitor with Google Analytics? I haven't used it (Omniture) in a long time, but last time I did we used it extensively for A-B testing, click tracking and other user-experience type events that I don't generally use Google Analytics for.

I am fully aware that I'm probably using about 10% of Google Analytics potential, so maybe they already do all this kind of stuff.

The thing I remember the most about Omniture is this: it was expensive as hell.

Re: Attention Developers: Google Analytics API Launched

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Post by TimothyFitz » Tue, Apr 21, 2009, 10:36 PM UTC

FiReaNG3L wrote: post #3

What I really want i a read / write API to Adsense, to be able to do some automatic A/B optimization. Some startups can do it right now, but they involve scraping which is against Google TOS. Not taking the chance to lose my Adsense account for that!

Use clicky, http://getclicky.com

I've run A/B experiments via them.

Re: Attention Developers: Google Analytics API Launched

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Post by alex_c » Tue, Apr 21, 2009, 10:47 PM UTC

Hehe, yesterday I was just messing around with some screen scraping for Analytics. Talk about good timing :) This should open up some fun projects.

Re: Attention Developers: Google Analytics API Launched

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Post by vulpes » Tue, Apr 21, 2009, 10:48 PM UTC

nixme wrote: post #2

iPhone app anyone? Might even be a nice addition to blog-posting apps to see stats on views, etc.

There are 2 iphone apps that already tap into google analytics. One is Ego (http://ego-app.com) and another is analtyics app (http://analyticsapp.com/) Both not bad.