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Asked: 2026-06-07T06:42:35+00:00

I’m trying to create a redistributable web application that will integrate with Google Analytics

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I’m trying to create a redistributable web application that will integrate with Google Analytics through the Google Reporting API. Customer will install the application on their server.

I’m following this tutorial (I’m using PHP, but I believe this is not of importance for my question)

https://developers.google.com/analytics/resources/tutorials/hello-analytics-api

This works fine. No issues there.

However I can’t figure out one missing element:
The tutorial starts with sending me to the Google APIs console where I have to create and configure a new API project and create and configure a client ID.

That’s a lot of work that requires fairly technical knowledge (redirect url, selecting correct API, error-prone copy-and-pasting, etc.)

So my questions:

  • Is there an API so I can programmatically set this up for my user?
  • If that’s not possible, is there a more user-friendly way to obtain Analytics reporting that is future-proof? (I noticed they are currently deprecating a few older APIs)
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  1. Editorial Team

    Unfortunately that’s AFAIK not possible.

    You could go one of the following ways:

    • Move client_id and client_secret to some configuration file and help your customer with deployment.

    • Show a one-time setup wizard for your app and guide your customer step-by-step. There you can at least provide him with the right callback URLs.

    • Regard your application as “installed application” and instrument curl or something similar for sending the requests.

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