A Ruby client library for interacting with the Google Analytics Core Reporting, Management, and Real-time APIs.
Legato is a Ruby client library for the Google Analytics API, enabling developers to programmatically access and manage Google Analytics data. It provides an object-oriented interface to query metrics, dimensions, and segments, handle OAuth2 authentication, and interact with Core Reporting, Management, and Real-time APIs. The library simplifies fetching analytics data for integration into Ruby applications.
Ruby developers and data engineers who need to integrate Google Analytics data into their applications, automate reporting, or build custom analytics dashboards. It's particularly useful for teams managing multiple GA accounts or requiring real-time data access.
Legato offers a clean, idiomatic Ruby API that abstracts the complexity of Google Analytics' raw API, making it easier to build and maintain analytics integrations. Its support for real-time reporting, flexible filtering, and session-level segments provides more control and efficiency compared to basic API wrappers.
Google Analytics Reporting API Client for Ruby
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Provides a clean, object-oriented syntax that abstracts Google Analytics API complexities, making it intuitive for Ruby developers to build queries, as shown in model examples like the Exit class.
Supports Core Reporting, Management, and Real-time APIs, enabling full programmatic access to accounts, profiles, and analytics data for automation and integration.
Offers flexible filtering with operators like gte and matches, plus session-level segments for dynamic data subsetting at query time, enhancing analytical capabilities.
Allows assignment of unique quota_user or user_ip to manage API usage limits, helping avoid rate limits in multi-user environments, as detailed in the quota management section.
The real-time reporting relies on Google's beta API, which is less stable, has limited metrics/dimensions, and may not be suitable for production use, as cautioned in the README.
Does not yet support Users vs Sessions segmentation, a limitation admitted in the documentation that restricts advanced user-based analytics and dynamic segments.
Requires manual OAuth2 token handling and configuration, adding initial setup complexity compared to libraries with built-in authentication helpers or simpler flows.
Closely tied to Google Analytics API v3 (Universal Analytics), so future deprecations or transitions to GA4 could necessitate updates and break existing implementations.