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edwardrmiles
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9 years ago
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Using Google Analytics Customs Segment

I'm using the Google Analytics (GA) connector in Power BI desktop.  I want to filter my queries using custom segments. I've created these segments in GA but I can't work out how to add them to my que...
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    edwardrmiles
    9 years ago

    It doesn't appear possible to use Segments with the off the shelf GA connector.  Using Web.Contents() to query the Core Reporting API doesn't work either as GA requires OAuth2 authentication and the PQ doesn't support that.

     

    I solved the problem by writing a Python script, however I', told the new Data Connector SDK allows OAuth2 authentication (https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/data-connectors-developer-preview/) so that might be worth a try

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edwardrmiles
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9 years ago

It doesn't appear possible to use Segments with the off the shelf GA connector.  Using Web.Contents() to query the Core Reporting API doesn't work either as GA requires OAuth2 authentication and the PQ doesn't support that.

 

I solved the problem by writing a Python script, however I', told the new Data Connector SDK allows OAuth2 authentication (https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/data-connectors-developer-preview/) so that might be worth a try

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7 years ago

Hi Edward,

 

Could you please share your Python script you used for getting GA Segments ?

 

Thank you for your help.

 

Nicolas.