Google Analytics API - retrieve Custom Segment Id by its name

Question

Using Google Analytics API to retrieve 20+ Profiles\' data so i can combine all of them into one set of data for analysis. (separate profiles are for different domains that

Answer 1

The answer is that the Analytics Core Reporting API doesn't have access to the custom segments. They can only be accessed by the Analytics Management API as referenced here:

Retrieve a user's Custom Segments to apply them to Core Reporting API queries. https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/config/mgmt/v3/

So looks like I will have to make call to Analytics Management API first to get list of custom segments that I want, and then use that list in Analytics Core Reporting API call to get data for just those segments.

https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/reporting/core/v3/reference#segment

Alternatively, I can forget about using the custom segments and instead retrieve Session Hostname and Source in Analytics Core Reporting API call data, so that I can do same filter in the query or in report as my custom segment. Drawback is that the referral spam is about 80% + of Google Analytics data so I would be retrieving more data than i need on regular basis.