Getting a link to a specific Google Analytics view

Question

I have a GA account, with defined properties and views. Now, I gave viewing rights for a few users to a specific view. How can I construct/get programmatically a direct URL that will bring those users right to that view/report?

Thanks a lot!

Answer 1

First lets take a look at an typical report url for a specific view:

https://analytics.google.com/analytics/web/#report/visitors-actives/a40777649w70913173p73156703/

Notice the pattern:

BASE_URL = 'https://analytics.google.com/analytics/web/#report/'
REPORT_TYPE = 'visitors-actives/'
ACOUNT_ID = '40777649'
WEBPROPERTY_ID = '70913173'
PROFILE_ID = '73156703' # Also called the view Id.

You can retrieve this information programmatically by calling the Account Summaries: list API method which returns a list of Account Summaries:

{
  "id": string,
  "kind": "analytics#accountSummary",
  "name": string,
  "starred": boolean,
  "webProperties": [
    {
      "kind": "analytics#webPropertySummary",
      "id": string,
      "name": string,
      "internalWebPropertyId": string,
      "level": string,
      "websiteUrl": string,
      "starred": boolean,
      "profiles": [
        {
          "kind": "analytics#profileSummary",
          "id": string,
          "name": string,
          "type": string,
          "starred": boolean
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

• The ACCOUNT_ID is the top level acountSumaries.id.
• The WEBPROPERTY_ID is the accountsumaries.webproperties[X].internalWebPropertyId.
• The PROFILE_ID is the accountsumaries.webproperties[X].profiles[X].id

Now with this information you can recustruct the URL link to the report of interest for a particular view.

FULL_URL = BASE_URL + REPORT_TYPE + 'a' + ACCOUNT_ID + 'w' + WEBPROPERTY_ID + 'p' + PROFILE_ID + '/'

Answer 2

Further to Matt's brilliant answer, you can use the "Try this API" section in their documentation here to get this information without writing a line of code:

https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/config/mgmt/v3/mgmtReference/management/accountSummaries/list

There is also some code snippets to do this programmatically.

Don't forget you will need to be logged in with an account with GA access for this to work.