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Google Analytics API Goes Public

Posted by kdawson on from the get-your-hot-data dept.

stoolpigeon writes "Google has announced the now public beta for the Google Analytics API (described here). The API lets developers create client applications that can pull analytics data, to mash it up with other data or to present it in new ways. The API has been available through a private beta program for about a year, and some applications are already out there: examples include Polaris on Adobe Air and Analytics for Android."

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  1. Re:Shame by vux984 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It's a shame they don't open source the code that drives the analytics.. That'd be sweet.

    But it wouldn't give them access to all the traffic on your site (and everyone elses that uses their analytics.) I was pretty pissed when they bought urchin (the company that made what is now 'google analytics') because they the first thing google did was prevent you from hosting the analytics yourself.

    On that note is there a good FOSS analytics package, preferably one that works well cross platform?

  2. Re:the complete API reference by DragonWriter · · Score: 2, Interesting

    That is beside the point. He wants to HOST the analytics himself so google doesn't have access to all the raw analytics data.

    Its not completely beside the point; while clearly opening the API doesn't help that as directly as opening the engine would, with the API available (and apps using it already) and incentive is created for independent implementations of the API, as well. So this is probably, in the long term, good for people who want to self-host analytics without building their own from scratch.