How do I use a Service Account to Access the Google Analytics API V3 with .NET C#?

Question

I realized this question has been previously asked but with little in the way of example code, so I am asking again but with at least a little bit of direction.

Afte

Answer 1

I was checking out the analytics API yesterday and noticed how undocumented it is and no samples etc.

Any ways, I have created a library that you could use to access analytics easily with couple of lines and make direct databinding to DataTables for data returned it's open source on the github so feel free to contribute :)

https://github.com/rmostafa/DotNetAnalyticsAPI

Usage

Analytics.AnalyticsManager manager = new Analytics.AnalyticsManager(Server.MapPath("~/bin/privatekey.p12"), "YOUR_EMAIL");
            manager.LoadAnalyticsProfiles();


List metrics = new List();
metrics.Add(Analytics.Data.Visitor.Metrics.visitors);
metrics.Add(Analytics.Data.Session.Metrics.visits);
List dimensions = new List();
dimensions.Add(Analytics.Data.GeoNetwork.Dimensions.country);
dimensions.Add(Analytics.Data.GeoNetwork.Dimensions.city);


System.Data.DataTable table = manager.GetGaDataTable(DateTime.Today.AddDays(-3), DateTime.Today, metrics, dimensions, null, metrics);

There is direct code mapping for All Google API Reporting commands categorized same way like the API so you could it even without reading the API Documentation at all since all features there are documented in the attributes, I have wrote code that parsed the complete api documentation and resourced the Metrics, Dimensions, Calculated Features in an XML that i generated from physical classes that you could use directly like the example above it's fun to play with :) enjoy

https://github.com/rmostafa/DotNetAnalyticsAPI