Having an issue with the Google Analytics taps... where the "test" method doesn't seem to work. Also posted to github (didn't realize how active this Slack is!). • https://github.com/MeltanoLabs/tap-google-analytics/issues/144 When I try to run

meltano config tap-ga4 test

, it throws an error: Plugin configuration is invalid 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0x92 in position 89: invalid start byte I've tried a lot of stuff: • Followed this: https://hub.meltano.com/extractors/tap-ga4 • Tried it on three machines - running Ubuntu (23.04/Python 3.11), Windows 11 (Python 3.10) and Ubuntu (22.04/Python 3.10). • Tried bringing the actual tap code local, and that works fine with my key file and report.json file. • Issue happens on both the GA3 and GA4 versions of the tap. • Cloned the Github repo and the tap works fine when I run it locally against the tap's venv (i set my settings as default values), so the environment isn't just totally jacked up (probably). • Tried completely remaking my virtual environment (using python venv) and reinstalling meltano • Tried reinstalling the taps -

meltano install --clean

• Tried adding debugging -

$env:MELTANO_CLI_LOG_LEVEL="debug"

and that didn't really help - except to show the error was coming from meltano and not the tap, I guess. •

meltano invoke tap-ga4

works fine. •

meltano run tap-ga4 target-jsonl

works as well. meltano.yml:

version: 1
default_environment: dev
project_id: f6626c63-9c25-41af-b1c7-952e44455d33
environments:
- name: dev
- name: staging
- name: prod
plugins:
  extractors:
  - name: tap-github
    variant: meltanolabs
    pip_url: git+<https://github.com/MeltanoLabs/tap-github.git>
    config:
      start_date: '2022-01-01'
      repositories:
      - jeffsdata/py-inspirationals
    select:
    - commits.url
    - commits.sha
    - commits.commit_timestamp
  - name: tap-ga4
    variant: meltanolabs
    pip_url: git+<https://github.com/MeltanoLabs/tap-google-analytics.git>
    config:
      end_date: '2023-07-31'
      start_date: '2023-07-01'
      reports: 'reportga4.json'
  loaders:
  - name: target-jsonl
    variant: andyh1203
    pip_url: target-jsonl

reportga4.json

[

    {
        "name": "daily_sessions",
        "dimensions": [
          "date"
        ],
        "metrics": [
          "sessions"
        ]
      }
]

.env

TAP_GITHUB_AUTH_TOKEN='github_pat_XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX'
TAP_GA4_PROPERTY_ID='########'
TAP_GA4_KEY_FILE_LOCATION='xxxxxxx-xxxxxxx-###-XXXXXXXXX.json'

•

meltano invoke tap-ga4

works fine.

•

meltano run tap-ga4 target-jsonl

works as well.

@jeff is the only issue at this point the

config tap-ga4 test

command? Just trying to understand where you're at now

Yep, that's right.

Interesting, I'm not sure what would be causing that still. You should be able to ignore it though if you can sync data then you clearly have a valid config 😅 . The config/test command under the hood is actually setting up a sync and waiting to see if any records flow through, once it sees a record it closes and considers it a success. If you dont have any streams selected it might fail because no data flows through during its test.