I am writing this question after considerable investigation into this matter.
I have gone through Google's easy dashboards (gadash JS library), superProxy and plain analytics API, and couldn't find the best solution for my needs, although I can't believe my needs are so uncommon.
This is why I am turning to you, I have got a feeling I am missing something.
My requirement:
Display my own analytics account data to users on my website, preferably with Google's chart API or ga-dash, to resemble google analytics views as much as possible.
Users will not have to take part in authentication with Google API
Each user has his own query which is built dynamically !! (this is probably why superProxy cannot work for me because I think you need to manually set the queries in advance)
I use django-python as the basis for my website
problems with solutions I tried:
GAdash library - the problem is that each user has to be authenticated, and shown their own data, meaning they need access to my profile- that's simply not what I am looking for. It works great, but only for me. On the other hand if there was a way to make my profile truly public...
superProxy - sounds like a solution for this need exactly, however I don't think that you can programmatically set the queries.
I did find a way to retrieve the data for a query on the server side using my own credential which is a bit hacky, I am still missing that JS library which will parse this XML on the client side and display it as charts.
EDIT:
I ended up using Mark's solution (embeddedanalytics), since I could not find a better, easier solution.
Other alternatives were:
1. superProxy (lacking the ability to dynamically, programmatically loading new queries)
2. gaDash library - requires authentication from each user
3. Implement my own server side querying, and display to the user with some js graphics library - which would require considerable work on my side.
Check out www.embeddedanalytics.com. This is a platform/service which will do exactly what you are looking to do (disclosure - I work with them).
We also support your requirement that each user have its own dynamically built query. This is what we call our CMS Integration version. Are you trying to create a dashboard system for a CMS system you have built?
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Currently, the Google Vault API does not provide a way to get a report of all users in a G-Suite tenant or domain who are on hold in one or more matters. This information is currently available only via the admin interface for Google Vault under Reports/User Holds. It would be great to be able to obtain this report via an API call in JSON format rather than only via the admin UI. Am I missing something or is this functionality already available?
Respectfully, please keep in mind that suggesting that I perform API operations to search all matters and iterate through the users on hold in each matter to obtain this information is not the answer I am looking for. There should be a quicker, more efficient way to get this information since such a report is already available via the UI. I am simply asking if there is a way to get this same information programmatically via the APIs/automation. Thank you in advance.
Unfortunately, Vault API does not have a method for that. The only way to retrieve this information is to list all matters and iterate through them, as you already mentioned.
File a feature request:
It's not uncommon for a feature to be present only in the UI. If you want to see this implemented on the API, I'd suggest you to report it on Issue Tracker's Vault component.
I looked through the issues of this component, and it looks like this hasn't been requested yet. There's currently a somewhat related feature request, but not exactly what you're looking for:
Audit reporting functionality
Update:
The original poster filed a feature request in Issue Tracker. I'm add this to the answer in order to give it more visibility.
To anyone who would like to see this feature implemented in the future, I'd suggest starring the issue (star on the top-left) in order to help prioritizing it:
Vault API: Need API method to return list of all users who have active holds as available in Vault UI
In PowerBI, I'd like to get data from a website requiring authentication (http://kdp.amazon.com/). Going to New Source, Web, Advanced, doesn't show me anything that looks promising. Hopefully I'm missing something.
My ideal would be to go to a specific webpage (post authentication), and click on a link that allows me to download an excel spreadsheet.
Thanks for any ideas/pointers.
It depends, and chances are slim for your case.
If it is a direct URL to where the data or file resided (e.g data is on the page, file link, web API endpoint), then it depends on what kind of authentication method is used by the website, and whether you can provide the credentials through the Web.Contents options. (commonly used for web API authentication)
If it requires further navigation (e.g. click, type in info) to access the data / file after the authentication, then the answer is no.
That type of data scraping can be accomplished using a headless browser and a scripting/macro engine.
For example xvfb (X virtual framebuffer) + firefox + iMacros. I do consider this beyond power bi's capabilities. If you wish to pursue this further here are some references:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xvfb
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/imacros-for-firefox/
Again, similar but using an alternate toolset:
http://scraping.pro/use-headless-firefox-scraping-linux/
BTW, having done this once or twice before - this is not a great value proposition. If you have to resort to this sort of tactic, it may be time to consider why the developers didn't expose this functionality to you in an API - maybe there is a good reason?
I'm building a small social WP plugin (more for learning purposes than anything else) and I'm trying to get my head around the various social networking sharing api's etc.
With regards to Facebook sharing, there seems to be the requirement for an application ID. Thats easy enough if this a one time thing, on a single site, but in the case of writing a plugin, I obviously would want it to be easy for users to install and setup, and not neccessarily have every user have to put one in from an options panel.
It seems to work when removing it from the FB.init, though I'm developing locally, and get an error when trying to use the like button.
Is an APP ID 100% required? and if so can I as a plugin author use one (think this gets paired with a website URL so not sure if its even possible) or the plugin that would
Anyone experienced with this got any tips?
For using the feed dialog, you do need an App (with ID). But you can - of course - just use your own App and just put it in the plugin. The App ID is nothing secret, and with that way you can also monitor the usage with the Facebook Insights.
There is one option without the feed dialog: sharer.php
It is exlained here: How to use Facebook Sharer in PHP
Just keep in mind that it is deprecated though (see other thread).
I am working on a system that needs to associate URLs with data based on keywords. I was hoping I could use a web service to automatically perform full-web searches based on keywords or tags, and the results would be in a machine-friendly format like JSON.
My first thought was Google, and their Google Custom Search service looks pretty good, and has proven itself in tests. It has a simple REST-like URL and returns results in JSON format. The only problem is that it has a limit of 100 queries per day. I need more like 1000. Their higher-quota pay option (Google Site Search) does not allow full-web searches, so is useless to me.
Surely others have wanted to do programmatic web searches before. Does Google offer another B2B search service that we could use? We are happy to pay per query, sign agreements, etc. I fear I am not looking in the right place on Google's site.
As I wrote this question I found Microsoft's Bing web services home page. At first blush it looks pretty good. I have a slight preference for Google, but am open to Microsoft. I would love to hear any advice about using Microsoft's APIs.
Google custom search offers a 'pay for >100 queries' option, I believe:
https://developers.google.com/custom-search/v1/overview
(see 'paid usage' section at the bottom)
#Sync found the right way in, and I believe I now understand the problem: Google has two control panels for custom search, and you can't get to one from the other.
I was on the panel for my Google Custom Search engine (www.google.com/cse/panel), which gives me control over low-level aspects of my search engine, and the only pay option was to convert to Google Site Search, but in so doing I would lose my full-web search power.
There is another, higher-level, control panel for all of Google's APIs (code.google.com/apis/console), of which Custom Search is a component. And from here, setting up billing to get a larger quota is clearly linked.
Sorry I am not providing proper links, as the relevant pages require login to access. While I consider this answer to be the authoritative one for my question, I am giving the green checkmark to #sync, without whose help I would not have been able to figure it out. I'd still love to see some comments on Bing's APIs, however!
I am tasked with creating a web form for people to update their details. I have existing data which I need to authenticate users against to make sure we are updating the correct person. I get the feeling that if I code this from scratch I will be reinventing the wheel.
I'm looking either for an online survey solution like SurveyMonkey (but not SurveyMonkey as it does no have automatic authentication) or a web form system that I can install and configure.
Seems like I need to build my own.
I will code in PHP and use a MySQL database. The login screen will take three bits of information, which if found in a record in the database, will show the user a screen with their old data, and a form for updating this data. They enter their new data and hit submit which will put their information into another table in the database.
Nothing to hard but I'd rather use a pre-made system which is already debugged and comes with with some built in tools so the users can manipulate the data.