Has anyone started looking at a tap for google analytics 4? I took a brief look at the API, seems there is a lot there, but I don’t know if it makes sense to load all of it.

There was a thread a while back https://meltano.slack.com/archives/C01PKLU5D1R/p1675707121115389 where we talked about it. I also was starting work on getting the meltano labs variant updated but havent finished yet

Wow this is amazing! Somehow it didn’t pop up in my search, but this made my day.

no ☹️ we see similar behavior to you

I found two bugs, that I was able to (at least somewhat) fix. One was that the data type “seconds” was parsed as int, but is a float. Second is that the default report definition for traffic_sources includes a number of dimensions that aren’t allowed. I assume the float error is a general issue, I don’t know about the metrics, perhaps that is related to the specific GA implementation. Should we try to do a few fixes and get this on to the hub? My working-branch: https://github.com/radbrt/tap-google-analytics-v4/tree/work

We are implementing GA4 at the moment, so will do a bit more testing with this tap over the coming months. Thanks for the pointer.

We should really hurry up and get something on the hub… as a competitive advantage. But I don’t want to maintain it! I try to stay as far away from google as I can.

Thanks for getting into it in anger @Henning Holgersen We have migrated our website analytics to now GA4 too and often demo with google analytics. So we’ll be using this tap soon too

Oh. sorry. My anger wasn’t supposed to be showing, only my distaste for google 😅. But sounds like we have a few possible maintainers then. Perhaps @pat_nadolny can coordinate an entry onto the hub. From what I can tell, the options are: • PR to the original connorflynn and use that one • PR to z3z1ma which is where I forked from and use that one • Matatika hosts something • Meltanolabs hosts something

😂 no worries. Sorry for my colloquial use of ‘in anger’. I meant to say ‘to use it for real’ not an opinion on whether Google anger is justified. It could be!

FYI I created https://github.com/meltano/hub/pull/1405. @Henning Holgersen related to https://meltano.slack.com/archives/CMN8HELB0/p1687974103844459?thread_ts=1687967794.072759&cid=CMN8HELB0 would you be interested in migrating your fork to meltanolabs as a new standalone tap-ga4 repo? That might allow us to all work on this together better without creating a ton of forks

@pat_nadolny I really don’t want to spend many braincells on GA4, but I could, for instance, merge the

work

branch (that seems to work for me) into main, so you can fork it to meltanolabs and cut the cord to my repo?

I really don’t want to spend many braincells on GA4

Me neither haha sounds like everyone dislikes GA 😆 . I don't think we'd expect you to maintain it but it would serve as a place for everyone to post bug fixes in the same place. I'm happy to go with your plan

Sounds good. I merged it into main, so feel free to fork it to meltanolabs.

I’m finally getting around to testing this new variant. I’ll report back 🫡

Guys, which one you would suggest me to use? https://github.com/MeltanoLabs/tap-ga4 https://github.com/singer-io/tap-ga4

@mindaugas_nizauskas Hard to say. I am of course biased because I helped create the meltanolabs variant and it is SDK-based and we have more control over it (if you want to make improvements, PRs are welcome). But if I were you, I would probably try out both to see what works and what the output looks like. If you do, please share your experience with them.

I'm also planning to do some work on the meltanolabs variant this week and get it up on the hub. I was waiting on credentials to test/dev. Theres also a discussion going on about whether we should merge these changes back into the original tap-google-analytics repo vs having a new standalone repo. My understanding is that UA properties are no longer active so it does make sense for the main tap-google-analytics to be GA4. Let me know if you have thoughts or reasons why we shouldnt do that

For me the most important thing is the ability to find the extractor in meltano hub entering google analytics

@mindaugas_nizauskas I think I can see it when I search:

FYI https://meltano.slack.com/archives/C013EKWA2Q1/p1689358883477349