EEA Google

EEA Google product

This package contains useful tools for talking with Google Analytics.

Contents

Main features

1. A low level API to access Google API;
2. A CMF portal tool to store Google connections;
3. Logic to authenticate with Google Analytics without touching Google credentials using AuthSub tokens
4. Logic to create custom Google Analytics reports using Google Analytics Data Export API.

Google Analytics reports created this way can be made available via portlets. Right now there is an example under skins folder.

Google API (eea.google.api)

A python package that provides a low level Google Connection and a generic connection error GoogleClientError. To use this connection you'll need an AuthBase authentication token. You can get one by calling Google like:

https://www.google.com/accounts/AuthSubRequest?scope=https://www.google.com/analytics/feeds/&session=1&next=http://yourdomain.com/do_something_with_token

After you login into your Google Analytics account, you'll be asked to grant access to yourdomain.com to access Analytics statistics. If you do so, Google will redirect your browser to the next link provided, adding a request parameter token=<one-session-authsub-token>, in our case

http://yourdomain.com/do_something_with_token?token=ADFAFDDKLJH14234__ASDD

As this token was provided in clear to you, it can be used only once to query Google API, that's why you'll need to exchange it for a multi-session one. But this time you can not do it from browser. So here eea.google.api comes in.

>>> from eea.google.api import Connection
>>> google = Connection(token='ADFAFDDKLJH14234__ASDD')
>>> new_token = google.token2session()

If you provided an invalid token it will quietly fail and return you a None object, else it will return you a multi-session token. Now you are connected with Google, forever :).

With this connection you can check it's status:

>>> google.status
(200, 'OK')

Or make a call:

>>> response = google(scope, data, method='GET')

• scope - the Google service you want to access;
• data - query parameters
• method - request method: GET or POST

If something doesn't work well this will raise a GoogleClientError, else it will return a Google Data Feed Response

>>> response.read()
<?xml ...

You can also make a safe request by calling .request method. This will return a None object if something works wrong.

>>> google.request(scope, data, method='GET')

Google Tool (eea.google.tool)

A CMF portal tool that can be retrieved using CMF method getToolByName: This a simple container for Google connections. It provides a basic browser interface to add and remove connections.

>>> from Products.CMFCore.utils import getToolByName
>>> tool = getToolByName(portal, 'portal_google')

Google Analytics (eea.google.analytics)

This package provides the browser interface to register with Google Analytics and defines two storage models: Analytics and AnalyticsReport. Also it provides a utility to easily access low level api.Connection and another one to parse Google response XML.

Dependencies

1. python2.4+
2. Plone 2.5.x or Plone 3.x. (optional if you're using only eea.google.api package).

Source code

Latest source code (Plone 4 compatible):

https://svn.eionet.europa.eu/repositories/Zope/trunk/eea.google/trunk

Plone 2 and 3 compatible:

https://svn.eionet.europa.eu/repositories/Zope/trunk/eea.google/branches/plone25

Copyright and license

The Initial Owner of the Original Code is European Environment Agency (EEA). All Rights Reserved.

The EEA Google (the Original Code) is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

Contributor(s): Alin Voinea (Eau de Web),

Antonio De Marinis (European Environment Agency),

More details under docs/License.txt

Funding

EEA - European Enviroment Agency (EU)

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