acedatacloud Query Google Analytics 4 via curl + jq. The user's OAuth bearer token is in
$GOOGLE_ANALYTICS_TOKEN (scope analytics.readonly); every call needs
Authorization: Bearer $GOOGLE_ANALYTICS_TOKEN. Two APIs: the Admin API
(analyticsadmin.googleapis.com/v1beta) to discover properties, and the Data
API (analyticsdata.googleapis.com/v1beta) to run reports.
Failures are {"error":{"code","message","status"}} — show verbatim. 401 =
re-install.
AUTH="Authorization: Bearer $GOOGLE_ANALYTICS_TOKEN"
# List the GA4 properties the user can access (via their account summaries)
curl -sS -H "$AUTH" "https://analyticsadmin.googleapis.com/v1beta/accountSummaries" \
| jq '.accountSummaries[]?.propertySummaries[]? | {property, displayName}'
property looks like properties/123456789 — the number is the PROPERTY_ID.
Run a report
PID="123456789"
curl -sS -X POST -H "$AUTH" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{
"dateRanges":[{"startDate":"28daysAgo","endDate":"today"}],
"dimensions":[{"name":"pagePath"}],
"metrics":[{"name":"screenPageViews"},{"name":"activeUsers"}],
"orderBys":[{"metric":{"metricName":"screenPageViews"},"desc":true}],
"limit":10
}' "https://analyticsdata.googleapis.com/v1beta/properties/$PID:runReport" \
| jq '.rows[] | {page: .dimensionValues[0].value, views: .metricValues[0].value, users: .metricValues[1].value}'
Swap dimensions/metrics for other reports: sessionDefaultChannelGroup +
sessions (acquisition), country + activeUsers (geo), eventName +
eventCount / conversions (events). Dates accept NdaysAgo, today,
yesterday, or YYYY-MM-DD.
Realtime
curl -sS -X POST -H "$AUTH" -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"dimensions":[{"name":"country"}],"metrics":[{"name":"activeUsers"}]}' \
"https://analyticsdata.googleapis.com/v1beta/properties/$PID:runRealtimeReport" | jq '.rows'
Gotchas
- This is GA4 only (Data API v1). Old Universal Analytics (UA) is shut down —
don't use the legacy
analytics/v3endpoints. - Valid dimension/metric API names matter (
screenPageViews, not "Pageviews"). If a name 400s, it's the wrong API id — check the GA4 dimensions & metrics list. - Reports are capped by
limit(default 10k rows); page withoffset.