I like to know how my blog is doing traffic wise. It helps to know if any articles is becoming popular. To save me logging in to Google Analytics everyday i decided to create a script which i could then use to display this information on my desktop using Geektools. I decided to simply call this script ga_request.
You will need ruby to run this script, as far as i know all modern macs have this installed already.
First download and unzip ga_request file to your mac
Before you can use this script you need to install gattica by running:
sudo gem install cannikin-gattica -s http://gems.github.com
Next ensure that the script has permission to execute.
Now you can setup geektools to display analytics information using the following command:
ruby /path/to/ga_request.rb -u google_email -p google_password -i profile_id -r results_to_display
The script has the following switches:
-u Your google account email as you use to login to your analytics account
-p The password you use to login to your analytics account
-i This is the profile id of the site you want to look at. This is not the UA number but can be found in the url when looking at the dashboard. https://www.google.com/analytics/reporting/?reset=1&id=12341234&pdr=20100323-20100422
-r The result set you want to return this can be visitors, pageviews or pageviews_per_page
Feel free to use the script and change it to suit your needs.
8 bit scraps has been created by Graham Hadgraft a web developer from Ipswich. Graham Hadgraft has 10 Years programming experience in various languages.
I found problem runing script
Error message: undefined method `lt’ for nil:NilClass (NoMethodError)
Can help solve this problem?
Hi thanks for you message letting me know you had a problem, i apologise for this. Unfortunatly the error you have posted does not help much do you have a line number for the line this appears from.
Hi,
Use Geektool for a long time now and I’m very interested in using this script. However , I’ve tried installing Gattica using the command you provide, and i get these errors :
ERROR: http://gems.github.com/ does not appear to be a repository
ERROR: could not find gem cannikin-gattica locally or in a repository
Could you help me installing that , please ? Would be much appreciated .
Cheers
It sounds like perhaps you have an older version of rubygems. Run the following command gem –version from the terminal at let me know the output.
Thanks for fast answer
result to the gem -v command is :
1.3.5
OK , don’t bother. I was behind a proxy, that’s why it couldn’t get cannikin-gattica. Got it now, and it work fine. Thanks again for this script.
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This script does not return any results. Any guess whats happening?
Would you please tell me why It doesn’t work for me:
WHAT I DID:
1) I installed cannikin-gattica
2) chmod 755 the script
3) Downloaded: http://www.macosxtips.co.uk/geeklets/modules/upload/attachments/ganalytics-pageviews.glet
4) Opened the glet with geektool
5) entered MY own parameter in the command box for
ruby /path/to/ga_request.rb -u google_email -p google_password -i profile_id -r results_to_display
RESULT:
-Nothing… just the status “led” indicator.
-Status image is “success” one; if I try running the script in my terminal, I get no output, but no error neither.
MY SETUP:
-Mac OS X: 10.6.7
-Darwin kernel version:10.7.4
-Ruby version: 1.8.7 (2011-02-18 patchlevel 334) [i686-darwin10.7.4]
thanks!
F.