gars-zombie

Google Analytics Real Time Scraping (using ZombieJs)

Currently logs in to Google Analytics and scrapes the realtime page for the active visitors number from the overview screen.

Notes:

• Inspired by:
• https://github.com/jedi4ever/gars - This project is the reworked version of jedi4ever that I had to remove CasperJs.
• https://github.com/adamdunkley/casperjs-google-analytics-realtime-scrape
• http://qzaidi.github.io/2013/06/23/dashboards-with-dashing/
• Currently only support datadog as a backend, more to come soon
• This project uses zombiejs to scrape the metrics

Installation

Using the official npm

$ npm install -g gars-zombie

From this repo

$ git clone https://github.com/sirshurf/gars-zombie.git
$ cd gars-zombie
$ npm install

Configuration

{
    "scraper":   [{
            "google": {
                "email": "<your email>",
                "password": "<your password>"
            },
            "report": [{
                "analytics": {
                    "home_id": "<your google analytics home id>",
                    "report_id": "<your google analytics project id>"
                },
                "metric": {
                    "backend":"datadog",
                    "name": "google.analytics.visitors",
                    "tags": [ "tag1", "tag2" ],
                    "hostname": "<your hostname>"
                }

            }]
    }],

    "backend": {
        "datadog": {
            "type": "datadog",
            "api_key": "<your datadog api key",
            "url": "https://app.datadoghq.com/api/v1/series"
        }
    }

}

Running it

From this repo

$ ./bin/gars-zombie -c <config file>

From npm (global)

$ gars-zombie -c <config file>

From npm local

$ ./node_modules/gars-zombie/bin/gars-zombie -c <config file>

Finding the ids

Once logged into the analytics. Note the following ids:

• google.analytics.home_id : https://www.google.com/analytics/web/?hl=en#home/<home_id>/
• google.analytics.report_id : https://www.google.com/analytics/web/?hl=en#report/visitors-overview/<report_id>/