How to read events from Google Analytics API?

Question

How do I read custom events from the Google Analytics API (e.g. with the help of gapi.class.php)?

If I have three events (myEvent1, myEvent2 and myEvent3) and they all belong to eventCategory myEventCategory, how do I read that data?

I have been searching the API docs but found nothing on retrieving the results of event tracking.

Solution

You would set your dimensions to:

ga:eventCategory, ga:eventAction, ga:eventLabel

And then you'd set your filter to:

ga:eventCategory==myEventCategory

Comments

[brenjt]

Exactly what I needed to know. Thanks

[user2636556]

@Yahel what about the metrics? leave it blank?

[Gowtham]

@user2636556 It will not work if you leave it blank. Fill it with ga:totalEvents or ga:uniqueEvents.

[FlorianT.]

For me [code]ga:eventCategory==myEventCategory[/code] does not work. It gives me: "Invalid dimension or metric"...

[Alan]

@Mollo you could try test it here: ga-dev-tools.appspot.com/query-explorer