Google Analytics 4 (GA4) Data API with Python

Important links:

Google Quickstart guide: https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/reporting/data/v1/quickstart-client-libraries
API dimensions and metrics: https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/reporting/data/v1/api-schema
Google developer's guides: https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/reporting/data/v1/rest/v1beta/properties

https://googleapis.dev/python/analyticsdata/latest/datav1beta/betaanalytics_data.html

Blog post with detailed instructions: https://probabilistically.com/ga4-bigquery-backfill/

The overview of the process:

Get API keys: create a GCP project, authorize Google Analytics Data API, create a service account, create JSON keys for the account.
Add service account as a viewer to your GA4 propert(Admin->User Management)
Install google-analytics-data package.
Set os.environ["GOOGLEAPPLICATIONCREDENTIALS"] = 'yourapikey.json'
Send request, get output. Done!

If you have trouble installing/importing Google Analytics data in your environment, run the code on Google Colab. The JSON would need to be saved as the key

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