I am trying to programmatically retrieve my company's app data from the Google Developer's Console, specifically the daily installs. I have found that Google recommends the gsutil tool to access the data programmatically through the Google Cloud Storage SDK. However, I beleive they charge for this service. I want a free way to programmatically retrieve the data, preferably as a JSON stream to avoid dealing with file downloads. I have found the "direct reporting" links, but I have problems authenticating when I try to use them, and I also have to do something with the actual files then.
Is there a way to get a JSON version of the data through OAuth2 or something without downloading an Excel file? Has anyone had to do this?
You should look into use the Core Reporting API.
There are client libraries available in a number of languages.
You should work through the Hello Analytics APIs to get started.
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A quick solution for building a dashboard would also be the Embed API.
Using the gsutil tool to access the company's storage bucket that are provided by google is a free service. I wrote a code that will run the gsutil code as a process through the command line and parsed the downloaded .csv files into a database for storage. OAuth2 was not necessary.
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We currently use Jive Cloud N which can use the Rest API and allows the use of Custom Apps. Our UI devs have created an app which uses a JS GET to pull data from a JSON file for our "Birthdays and Anniversaries" tile.
At the moment, the JSON file is hosted on our UI dev's Google Cloud Apps account, but we wish to host it internally so we don't have to keep contacting them for changes.
I uploaded the file to our OneDrive for Business storage and created a public URL with full read permissions but the Jive platform is throwing an error trying to load the custom app.
The error is that the file
has been blocked by CORS policy: No "Access-Control-Allow-Origin"
header is present
Our dev said that to get it working on his Google Cloud App storage, he had to specify the allow-control-allow-origin field in the server's server app.yaml file. I don't know what this is and if there is an equivalent for ODfB/SharePoint.
To get to my question: How can I host this JSON file on ODfB or even somewhere on our Azure tenancy so that it can be used? Or am I better off trying to setup a Google Cloud App storage location and replicate our dev's setup? FYI - I'd prefer the former because we're using M$ for a number of cloud hosted services already.
Thanks in advance
To get to my question: How can I host this JSON file on ODfB or even somewhere on our Azure tenancy so that it can be used?
FYI - I'd prefer the former because we're using M$ for a number of cloud hosted services already.
Per my understanding, you could leverage Azure Blob Storage to store your JSON file, and you could use Microsoft Azure Storage Explorer to easily manage/share your files.
Moreover, You could manage anonymous read access to your containers and blobs, refer to this tutorial for more details. Also, you could leverage SAS to grant limited access to your storage account for other clients, you could follow this tutorial for getting started with SAS.
For a simple way, you could create your storage account and leverage Microsoft Azure Storage Explorer to manage/share your file as follows:
For cross domain accessing, you need to configure CORS Setting:
For sharing your file(blob), you could Set Container Public Access Level or leverage SAS to grant limited access to your file for other clients as follows:
Right click your container, select "Set Public Access Level":
Sample file for share: https://brucechen.blob.core.windows.net/brucechen/index.json
Also, you could right click your JSON file, click "Get Shared Access Signature":
Sample file for share: https://brucechen.blob.core.windows.net/brucechen/index.json?st=2017-02-28T08%3A04%3A00Z&se=2017-09-01T08%3A04%3A00Z&sp=r&sv=2015-12-11&sr=b&sig=rVkorHeNOd4j2YhkmmxZ6DfXVLf1FoN2smY6mNRIoWs%3D
I am trying to programmatically retrieve my company's app data from the Google Developer's Console, specifically the daily installs. I have found that Google recommends the gsutil tool to access the data programmatically through the Google Cloud Storage SDK. However, I beleive they charge for this service. I want a free way to programmatically retrieve the data, preferably as a JSON stream to avoid dealing with file downloads. I have found the "direct reporting" links, but I have problems authenticating when I try to use them, and I also have to do something with the actual files then.
Is there a way to get a JSON version of the data through OAuth2 or something without downloading an Excel file? Has anyone had to do this? Thanks in advance.
I have couple of Perl scripts that uploads / reads files from Google drive. Is it possible to access Google drive with Perl Api, or I need to switch to python or some scripting languages that Google supports.
We have a REST API. You can use any language to implement your own client, you don't have to use one of the client libraries we support.
An overview of the resources are here: https://developers.google.com/drive/v2/reference
Auth is explained on https://developers.google.com/accounts/docs/OAuth2#webserver
File upload is explained on https://developers.google.com/drive/manage-uploads
I just found a nice cpan module for talking to Google drive. So it might be as useful to you as it will be to me, because I just started playing with it. The only thing that is weird about it is that it needs to run install script to create the initial credentials on your machine.
http://search.cpan.org/~mschilli/Net-Google-Drive-Simple-0.03/lib/Net/Google/Drive/Simple.pm#SYNOPSIS
I am new using google scripts and drive-sdk.
I'd like to call the copy functionality of drive-sdk. When I try it, I get a message that says I need authentication.
Where can I find an example of how can I authenticate from a google script to authenticate de drive-sdk?
Thanks in advance.
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Have a look at the Google's Drive SDK docs regarding authentication.
https://developers.google.com/drive/quickstart-php is a good example in PHP. other languages they have quickstart examples for: Java, Python, .NET, Ruby, Javascript, Go, and Objective-C/iOS
First, view Google's information on authorising with the Drive API.
Then, choose which language you wish to use, I would reccomend JavaScript (or Node.js) if you want to play around or are making a web app.
If you wish, you can view a simplified explanation of the OAuth2.0 flow.
To clarify, the basic steps you can use to get going in JavaScript (as an example) are:
View this official Google getting started page
Set up the Drive API in the Google Developers Console
Copy the code from the getting started page
Ensure you place your ClientID from the Google Developer console into the copied code
Install Python if you haven't already (version 2 or 3)
Start the web server using Python (python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000 for version 2) and load 'http://localhost:8000/quickstart.html' into your web browser
Are there any plans to open this extremely useful API to tools outside of App Script?
We love App Script, but need this access from other systems.
Not yet but this is something we are actively looking into. In the mean time unfortunately you are stuck with Apps Script or you can upload a file format that we can convert to a Google Document for instance an ODTor an RTF file and upload them to Drive via the API with the convert URL parameter to true. See: https://developers.google.com/drive/v2/reference/files/insert#convert