Get Google analytics metrics for single url/article

articleanalytics.py

from local_settings import GOOGLE_USER, GOOGLE_PWD
from googleanalytics import Connection
from datetime import date

#googleanalytics is found here: https://github.com/clintecker/python-googleanalytics/

gaaccounts = {
              'myaccountname': '1234567',

              }

class TV2GAClient(object):
    
    """Usage:
    ga = TV2GAClient(GOOGLE_USER, GOOGLE_PWD)

    start_date = date(2010, 11, 01)
    end_date = date(2010, 11, 30)

    print ga.get_metrics_for_article('myaccountname', '3335992', start_date, end_date)
    """

    
    def __init__(self, guser, gpasswd):

        self.conn = Connection(guser, gpasswd)
        self.accounts = {}
        self.accountname = None
        #cache accounts to be used
        self.get_accounts()
    
    def get_accounts(self):
        
        print "Getting GA accounts...."
        
        for k,v in gaaccounts.iteritems():
            
            self.accounts[k] = self.conn.get_account(v)
            print self.accounts

    
    def get_metrics_for_article(self,
                                accountname,
                                articleid,
                                startdate,
                                enddate,
                                metrics=[
                                    'uniquePageviews',
                                    'Pageviews',
                                    'avgPageLoadTime',
                                    'bounces',
                                    'exitRate',
                                    'entrances',
                                    ]):

        """
        Gets the metrics for a single url/article based on the articleid beeing in the url
        If more results are returned (i.e. the articlid is not unique) then only first url
        is returned and used. Put in a list of the metrics you want to retrieve, defaults provided
        """

        #this defines a filter that searches for all urls containing the articleid, you could
        #replace this with other regular expressions

        filters = [['pagePath', '=~', '.*%s.*' % str(articleid)],]
        
        try:
            data = self.accounts[accountname].get_data(startdate,
                            enddate,
                            metrics=metrics,
                            dimensions=['pagePath',],
                            max_results=1,
                            filters=filters,
                            sort=['-%s'% metrics[0],]
                            )
        except:
            print "GA:Error: Could not get account data list for accountname %s" % accountname
            return None
        else:
        
            if len(data) > 0:
                try:
                    return dict(zip([k.lower() for k in metrics], [str(v) for v in data.list[0][1]]))
                except: 
                    return None
                    print "Exception: No GA-pageviews for %s. Account name: %s. Data list: %s" % str(str(filters), accountname, str(data.list)) 
            else:
                print "Data list empty: No GA-pageviews for %s. Account name: %s. Data list: %s" % (str(filters), accountname, str(data.list)) 
                return None