tslava / google-measurement-protocol

A Python implementation of Google Analytics Measurement Protocol

google-measurement-protocol

A Python implementation of Google Analytics Measurement Protocol

Transaction handling depends on the prices library.

Generating a client ID

Google strongly encourages using UUID version 4 as unique user handles. It's up to you to generate and persist the ID between actions, just make sure that all actions performed by the same user are reported using the same client ID.

import uuid

client_id = uuid.uuid4()

Reporting a page view

There are two ways to construct a PageView object:

PageView(path[, host_name=None][, title=None][, referrer=None])

PageView(location='http://example.com/my-page/?foo=1'[, title=None][, referrer=None])

Example:

from google_measurement_protocol import PageView, report

view = PageView(path='/my-page/', title='My Page', referrer='http://example.com/')
report('UA-123456-1', client_id, view)

Reporting an event

Use the Event object:

Event('category', 'action'[, label=None][, value=None])

Example:

from google_measurement_protocol import Event, report

event = Event('profile', 'user_registered')
report('UA-123456-1', client_id, event)

Reporting a transaction

First create Items to describe the contents of the transaction:

Item(name, unit_price[, quantity=None][, item_id=None])

Then the Transaction itself:

Transaction(transaction_id, items[, revenue=None][, shipping=None][, affiliation=None])

If revenue is given, it will override the total that is otherwise calculated from items and shipping.

Example:

from google_measurement_protocol import Item, report, Transaction
from prices import Price

transaction_id = '0001'  # any string should do
items = [Item('My awesome product', Price(90, currency='EUR'), quantity=2),
         Item('Another product', Price(30, currency='EUR'))]
transaction = Transaction(transaction_id, items)
report('UA-123456-1', client_id, transaction)

Reporting extra data

You can pass extra_info and extra_headers to report() function to submit additional information.

extra_headers is passed directly as additional headers to requests library. This is currently the only way to pass User-Agent.

extra_info should be an instance of SystemInfo. Currently only language reporting is supported:

SystemInfo([language=None])

Example:

from google_measurement_protocol import PageView, report, SystemInfo

view = PageView(path='/my-page/', title='My Page', referrer='http://example.com/')
headers = {'user-agent': 'my-user-agent 1.0'}
info = SystemInfo(language='en-us')
report('UA-123456-1', client_id, view, extra_info=info, extra_header=headers)