Display Top URLs With Google Analytics API (PHP)
We can use Core Reporting API to fetch top (Popular) URLs from Google Analytics. Using Google API PHP Client let’s create a simple PHP page that pulls website’s top URLs from Google Analytics and updates MySql table. Once you are familiar, I am sure you can do lot more, I mean just checkout the information you can retrieve in this Reporting API. Let’s start by creating MySql table called google_top_pages, table contains 4 columns (id, page_uri, page_title, total_views). You can run this query in your PhpMyAdmin to have this table created.MYSQL
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CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `google_top_pages` (
`id` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
`page_uri` varchar(60) NOT NULL,
`page_title` varchar(60) NOT NULL,
`total_views` int(11) NOT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (`id`)
) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1 AUTO_INCREMENT=0 ;Configuration
This is important part:- Create Google OAuth API Keys and get Client ID and secret.
- Enter redirect url in Google Redirect URI, or you will get redirect mismatch error.
- Enable Analytics API in Google APIs Console->Services Page.
PHP
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<?php
########## Google Settings.. Client ID, Client Secret #############
$google_client_id = '12345678901112.apps.googleusercontent.com';
$google_client_secret = 'XYZ_1234_abcdXYZ';
$google_redirect_url = 'http://yoursite.com/update_pages.php';
$page_url_prefix = 'http://www.sanwebe.com';
########## Google analytics Settings.. #############
$google_analytics_profile_id = 'ga:123456'; //Analytics site Profile ID
$google_analytics_dimensions = 'ga:landingPagePath,ga:pageTitle'; //no change needed (optional)
$google_analytics_metrics = 'ga:pageviews'; //no change needed (optional)
$google_analytics_sort_by = '-ga:pageviews'; //no change needed (optional)
$google_analytics_max_results = '20'; //no change needed (optional)
########## MySql details #############
$db_username = "db_user_name"; //Database Username
$db_password = "xxxxxx"; //Database Password
$hostname = "localhost"; //Mysql Hostname
$db_name = 'xxxxxx'; //Database Name
###################################################################
$mysqli = new mysqli($hostname,$db_username,$db_password,$db_name);Updating Top Pages
If everything is set correctly in configuration file, PHP page below should run without any trouble. We can run this page once or twice a month to fetch top pages from Google Analytics, and store them in MySql database for later retrieval. We need to authenticate user first, and once we have the access token, we can proceed further with Analytics services. Please go though comment lines to understand the process.PHP
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<?php
//start session
session_start();
//include configuration file
include_once("config.php");
//include google api files
require_once 'src/Google_Client.php';
require_once 'src/contrib/Google_AnalyticsService.php';
$gClient = new Google_Client();
$gClient->setApplicationName('Login to saaraan.com');
$gClient->setClientId($google_client_id);
$gClient->setClientSecret($google_client_secret);
$gClient->setRedirectUri($google_redirect_url);
$gClient->setScopes(array('https://www.googleapis.com/auth/analytics.readonly'));
$gClient->setUseObjects(true);
//check for session variable
if (isset($_SESSION["token"])) {
//set start date to previous month
$start_date = date("Y-m-d", strtotime("-1 month") );
//end date as today
$end_date = date("Y-m-d");
try{
//set access token
$gClient->setAccessToken($_SESSION["token"]);
//create analytics services object
$analyticsService = new Google_AnalyticsService($gClient);
//analytics parameters (check configuration file)
$params = array('dimensions' => $google_analytics_dimensions,'sort' => $google_analytics_sort_by,'filters' => 'ga:medium==organic','max-results' => $google_analytics_max_results);
//get results from google analytics
$results = $analyticsService->data_ga->get($google_analytics_profile_id,$start_date,$end_date, $google_analytics_metrics, $params);
}
catch(Exception $e){ //do we have an error?
echo $e->getMessage(); //display error
}
$pages = array();
$rows = $results->rows;
if($rows)
{
echo '<ul>';
foreach($rows as $row)
{
//prepare values for db insert
$pages[] = '("'.$row[0].'","'.$row[1].'",'.$row[2].')';
//output top page link
echo '<li><a href="'.$page_url_prefix.$row[0].'">'.$row[1].'</a></li>';
}
echo '</ul>';
//empty table
$mysqli->query("TRUNCATE TABLE google_top_pages");
//insert all new top pages in the table
if($mysqli->query("INSERT INTO google_top_pages (page_uri, page_title, total_views) VALUES ".implode(',', $pages).""))
{
echo '<br />Records updated...';
}else{
echo $mysqli->error;
}
}
}else{
//authenticate user
if (isset($_GET['code'])) {
$gClient->authenticate();
$token = $gClient->getAccessToken();
$_SESSION["token"] = $token;
header('Location: ' . filter_var($google_redirect_url, FILTER_SANITIZE_URL));
}else{
$gClient->authenticate();
}
}Retrieving Top URLs from DB
When the top URLs are stored in database, here's how we can retrieve the records from database. You can display it anywhere you like, such as on the sidebar or footer of your website etc.PHP
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<?php
//include configuration file
include_once("config.php");
//get all records from db table
$results = $mysqli->query("SELECT page_uri, page_title, total_views FROM google_top_pages ORDER BY total_views ASC");
//list all top pages on screen
echo '<ul class="page_result">';
while($row = mysqli_fetch_array($results))
{
echo '<li><a href="'.$page_url_prefix.$row['page_uri'].'">'.$row['page_title'].'</a></li>';
}
echo '</ul>';
//link to update page for admin
echo '<div class="update-button"><a href="update_pages.php">Update top pages list!</a></div>';
?>
