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⇱ Access Live Google Analytics Data in Excel (Desktop) via Connect AI

Access Live Google Analytics Data in Excel (Desktop) via Connect AI

👁 Dibyendu Datta
Dibyendu Datta
Lead Technology Evangelist
Use CData Connect AI to gain access to live Google Analytics data from your Excel spreadsheets.

Microsoft Excel is a widely used spreadsheet software application, primarily used for tasks related to data management, analysis, and visualization. When combined with CData Connect AI, you gain immediate access to Google Analytics data directly within Excel, facilitating data analysis, collaboration, calculations, and more.This article shows how to connect to Google Analytics in your Connect AI instance and access live Google Analytics data in Excel spreadsheets.

CData Connect AI provides a pure cloud-to-cloud interface for Google Analytics, allowing you to easily access live Google Analytics data in Excel for the web. Simply use the Connect AI Add-In to query live data (or write your own). Using optimized data processing out of the box, CData Connect AI pushes all supported query operations (filters, JOINs, etc) directly to Google Analytics, leveraging server-side processing to quickly return Google Analytics data.

This setup requires a CData Connect AI instance and the CData Connect AI Add-In for Excel. To get started, sign up a free trial of Connect AI and install the free Connect AI Excel Add-In.


Configure Google Analytics Connectivity for Excel

Connectivity to Google Analytics from Excel is made possible through CData Connect AI. To work with Google Analytics data from Excel, we start by creating and configuring a Google Analytics connection.

  1. Log into Connect AI, click Sources, and then click Add Connection
    2. 👁 Adding a Connection
  2. Select "Google Analytics" from the Add Connection panel
    3. 👁 Selecting a data source
  3. Google Analytics uses OAuth to authenticate. Click "Sign in" to authenticate with Google Analytics. 👁 Authenticating with OAuth (Salesforce is shown).
  4. Navigate to the Permissions tab in the Add Google Analytics Connection page and update the User-based permissions. 👁 Updating permissions

With the connection configured, you are ready to connect to Google Analytics data from Excel.

Access Live Google Analytics Data in Excel

The steps below outline connecting to CData Connect AI from Excel to access live Google Analytics data.

  1. Open Excel, create a new sheet (or open an existing one).
  2. Click Insert and click Get Add-ins. (if you have already installed the Add-In, jump to step 4).
  3. Search for CData Connect AI Add-In and install the Add-in. 👁 Install the Add-In
  4. Click Data and open the CData Connect AI Add-In.
  5. In the Add-In panel, click Authorize to authenticate with your CData Connect AI instance 👁 Authorizing the Add-In
  6. In the CData Connect AI panel in Excel, click Import 👁 CData Connect AI panel in Excel
  7. Choose a Connection (e.g. GoogleAnalytics1), Table (e.g. Traffic), and Columns to import 👁 CData Connect AI panel in Excel
  8. Optionally add Filters, Sorting, and a Limit 👁 Choosing a Connection, Table, and Columns
  9. Click Execute to import the data 👁 Executing the Query

Live Access to Google Analytics Data from Cloud Applications

Now, you have a direct, cloud-to-cloud connection to live Google Analytics data from your Excel workbook. You can add more data to your workbook for calculations, aggregations, collaboration, and more.

👁 Imported data (Salesforce is shown)

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