Analytics Query Tool - Feed Generation

Google gadgets are used to display data in a variety of formats including charts and maps, and are easily added to iGoogle or existing web pages.

Feed Type

There are currently five feed type supported by the query tool:

  1. Google Chart Tools - a datasource provider for the Google Visualization API
  2. Google Gadgets - a feed for Google Gadgets [1, 2]
  3. GeoRSS - a feed for Google Maps
  4. KML 2D - a feed for Google Earth with circle radius to indicate metric value
  5. KML 3D - a feed for Google Earth with 3D bars to indicate metric value

“Query cannot be changed” checkbox

If checked, then the security key will include a hash of the query, preventing the query part of the URL from being changed.

Visualization Gadget Provider

The query is not part of the generated data source URL. Use this option when adding Google Visualization Gadgets to web pages and the query is specified separately from the provider. Do not use this option with iGoogle.

Key Scope

Control which GA profiles can be queried by the generated key.

Unscoped

Time limit

Unlimited

The generated gadget data source URL will never expire.

Limit

The generated gadget data source URL will expire or stop working after the specified number of days. The advantage of having tokens expire is that if they are lost or stolen, they will stop working at some point.

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