Google Pageviews

README.md

Set Up

You will need Sija's version of the garb gem, so add this line to your Gemfile (you will need git installed for this):

gem 'garb', :git => 'git://github.com/Sija/garb.git'

Then run the gem bundler: bundle install

Set your google username

username = ''

Put in your google password (create a secondary account for this with a really long randomly generated password)

password = ''

Get an api key for google analytics from here: https://code.google.com/apis/console and set the api_key:

api_key = ''

pick your property from the google analytics interface ( http://google.com/analytics ) and set it:

ua = ''

Then add the contents of google_pageviews.erb to your layout file.

If you change the dimensions from :month make sure you update the data-moreinfo line so that it matches the interval.

google_pageviews.erb

<li data-row="1" data-col="1" data-sizex="1" data-sizey="1">
  <div data-id="page_views" 
       data-view="Number" 
       data-title="Views"
       data-moreinfo="This Month" style="background-color:#869;"></div>
  <i class="icon-link icon-background"></i>
</li>

google_pageviews.rb

require 'garb'

# google username
username = ''
# google password
password = ''
# google api key
api_key  = ''

# google analytics ua (make sure the UA- is there)
ua = 'UA-'

Garb::Session.api_key = api_key
Garb::Session.login(username, password)


class PageViews
  extend Garb::Model
  
  metrics :pageviews
  # this could be :day, :month, :year
  dimensions :month
end

profile = Garb::Management::Profile.all.detect {|p| p.web_property_id == ua}

SCHEDULER.every '1m', :first_in => 0 do
  views = PageViews.results(
    profile,
	  :limit => 1,
    :start_date => Date.new(Time.now.year,Time.now.month,1).to_time
  )
  send_event('page_views',   { current: views.first.pageviews })
end

Another option is using Google Analytics' Superproxy. https://developers.google.com/analytics/solutions/google-analytics-super-proxy