https://github.com/jedi4ever/gars

Google Analytics Realtime Scraper (using CasperJs)
https://github.com/jedi4ever/gars

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Google Analytics Realtime Scraper (using CasperJs)

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/jedi4ever/gars
• Owner: jedi4ever
• Created: 2014-02-10T10:21:17.000Z (almost 11 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2017-04-29T20:17:37.000Z (over 7 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-08T15:14:54.586Z (3 months ago)
• Language: JavaScript
• Size: 164 KB
• Stars: 9
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 3
• Open Issues: 2
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  • Readme: README.md

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Google Analytics Real Time Scraping

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Currently logs in to Google Analytics and scrapes the realtime page for the active visitors number from the overview screen.

Notes: 

- Inspired by: 

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- Currently only support datadog as a backend, more to come soon

- This project uses casperjs to scrape the metrics

# Installation

## Using the official npm

`$ npm install -g gars`

## From this repo

```

$ git clone http://github.com/jedi4ever/gars.git

$ npm install

```

# Configuration

```

    {

      "google": {

        "email": "",

          "password": "",

          "analytics": {

            "home_id": "",

            "report_id": ""

          }

      },

      "casperjs": {

        "verbose": true,

        "logLevel": "info"

      },

      "metric": {

        "name": "google.analytics.visitors",

        "tags": [ "tag1", "tag2" ],

        "hostname": ""

      },

      "backend": {

          "datadog": {

            "api_key": "`

## From npm (global)

`$ gars `

## From npm local

`$ ./node_modules/gars/bin/gars `

# Finding the ids

Once logged into the analytics. Note the following ids:

- `google.analytics.home_id` : `https://www.google.com/analytics/web/?hl=en#home//`

- `google.analytics.report_id` : `https://www.google.com/analytics/web/?hl=en#report/visitors-overview//`

# Notes

- http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19617113/hide-the-footprint-of-casperjs-with-google-analytics