I have created a job with report type channel_basic_a1 in the YouTube Reporting API. Over the night 2 reports were generated for this job. However when I download them, they only contain a header row and no data rows. Is this normal behaviour? Is it going to be updated with data when it's becoming available? How do I determine when I can download them again with data?
From the docs:
If no data is available for the given query, the rows element will be omitted from the response.
It's possible that your query did not return any data, or the data is not available yet. Try again in a few days to verify that the analytics data is in fact available. The response for a query with the day dimension will not contain rows for the most recent days.
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Every day, we download a youtube content owner video report for two different content owners. We connect to the API and pull data from the following endpoint: content_owner_video_metadata_a2. Since November 17th, 2022, we have NOT been able to pull any new data for this report. In fact, the API returns no data at all. My business users are able to see this data in the front-end GUI for content owners and on their end, it also shows that the data has not been updated since the 17th. Is there an issue that we should know about? How can we get this data to be updated?? Please let me know if you need any other details to help you understand my issue. Thanks!
I was expecting the API to return data, which I then download into a CSV file. No data is being returned and so no file is being created.
I am using the Google Analytics Spreadsheet add-on to fetch report data into a spreadsheet. The data from Google Analytics is pulled daily in my spreadsheet and shown in an Overview sheet. However, I would like to store the values for later reference.
Google Analytics add-on sheet
My idea is to store all daily values in one sheet and fetch these values via INDEX/MATCH.
I would like to "persist" the row of the current day after the Google Analytics report is run, to store this value for the future.
Any suggestions how to do this?
The Google Analytics Spreadsheet Add-on doesn't have an append feature, so you cannot keep data from previous runs and add data from new runs.
However, you don't need to: since you're going to do a lookup (index-match), it doesn't matter on which rows the data sits, since you're lookup is going to find it. So you can build your reports to get data from the last N days (eg last year with Start Date = TODAY()-366 and End Date = TODAY()-1 (not getting data from today due to GA data processing latency). Traditionally when doing reporting you're interested in a time period that's relative to now (eg "how has it been going for the last 12 months?"), hence the above method would be suitable.
If you want an append feature, you need to use other solutions, like SuperMetrics.
I am a beginner to Omniture/adobe web analytics. I want to know the some information like
How can we track data coming into Omniture?
How do we know if the tags are firing as expected?
I installed Omnibug extension and can track what are the parameters and their values being sent to Omniture, but not sure how can we track data in Omniture that was being sent.
Also, I tried to find unique visitors, visits, pageviews based on pageName. Is it possible to filter unique visitors based on pageName? If yes, can anyone guide me by providing list of instructions
Thanks
What you need to do to truly verify that the expected data is landing in Adobe Analytics is look at the Click Stream feeds and map the results against the data you expect to be there. https://marketing.adobe.com/resources/help/en_US/sc/clickstream/
It is not trivial, but is the deepest way of verifying the final result of page code, data collection, processing rules, vista and finally pre/post results.
So after scouring the youtube API, and thinking that this may not be possible, I'll give a last try here.
In a nutshell, I am trying to obtain analytical data from youtube's analytics's API for specific videos for a date range (by day if possible). I've found ways to get the channel data that the video reside in, but I have been unable to find how to ontain the specific video data itself. Assuming it exists in v3 that is.
Anyone had any luck with this kind of task at all? Has this feature been developed for v3 as of yet?
Channel Reports is the API to retrieve video metrics. It can filter by video, by country, by lead (for some fields) and accepts timespan and data aggregation granularity. In brief, Available Reports lists all the valid query parameter combinations.
Individual comments can be retrieved with v2 Data API - together with their dates.
When querying the YouTube Analytics API for demographics for a channel for a 1 day range (metric:viewerPercentage, dimensions:ageGroup,gender) in some cases no rows are returned. The api IS returning views for that day however.
2 reasons for this come to mind:
1. The data is not available yet because it is still being processed.
2. There is no known demographics for that (i.e. the gender and age of the user are not known)?
Am I safe to assume it's not (1) in this case because a query for views did return results? If I can't assume on then is it true that there's no difference in the response/results between "not processed" and "processed but all users are of unknown demographics?"
In other words if, when (2) were the case, the API would return a row with all zero's 0 for each demographic, that would enable us to interpret things correctly (but I'm pretty sure that's not how API queries with a dimension work).
Thanks for any guidance!
I can't provide any hard-and-fast guidance about the YouTube Analytics data processing pipeline, i.e. whether the demographic data will always be available at exactly the same time that the view count data is available in a report.
To get a more authoritative answer about this sort of specific question, I'd recommend going to the YouTube Analytics web interface (http://youtube.com/analytics) and try running an identical report from there. The web interface normally gives you some warning if you're requesting a report that relies on data that isn't yet available.