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Joshua Dannemann
Joshua Dannemann

Reputation: 2080

Get account ID from Google Analytics Tracking code on page

I am performing an audit using a custom web crawler of mine and was trying to garner the accountID for the legacy implementations of Google Analytics, but I cannot seem to get any of the JavaScript functions in _gaq to return the accountId in use. Does anybody know how to do this? All the documentation I've read really only mentions how to set variables, not how to get variables out once set for the purpose of auditing an implementation.

Thanks in advance

UPDATE

Thanks everyone! I wish I could check off all of your responses as good answers.

After a bit of testing, I have come up with the following function that handles pretty much every use case.

function getAccount() {
    try {
        if (_gaq) {
            for (i = 0; i < _gaq.length; i++) {
              if (_gaq[i][0] == "_setAccount") {
                  return _gaq[i][1]
              }
            }
        }
        if (_gat) {
            if (_gat.fb) {
                return _gat.fb
            }
        }
        if (ga) {
            return ga.getAll()[0].a.data.values[':trackingId']
        }
    } catch (e) { }
    return ""
}

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2367

Answers (4)

dinigo
dinigo

Reputation: 7448

According to documentation first you get all the trackers set on page

// returns an array with all the trackers
const trackers = ga.getAll();

And then, for each tracker, you can obtain the tracking id for each one getting the property

// returns the 'trackingId' propperty
const trackingId = tracker.get('trackingId'));

If you want to shorten it up, you could do

const trackingIds = ga.getAll().map(tracker => tracker.get('trackingId'));

Warning:

Remember to run this always after the ga ready.

Don't — use ga object methods outside a readyCallback as the methods may not be available yet.

var trackers = ga.getAll();

Do — use ga object methods inside a readyCallback as they're guaranteed to be available.

ga(function() { var trackers = ga.getAll(); });

Upvotes: 1

Gustavo Cornejo
Gustavo Cornejo

Reputation: 21

I just did it using an alternative method, as follows:

var _gaq = _gaq || [];
_gaq.push(function() {
  var trackers, i;
  trackers = _gat._getTrackers();
  for (i = trackers.length - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
    var account = trackers[i]._getAccount();
    console.log("tracker account", account);
  }
});

Upvotes: 0

Eike Pierstorff
Eike Pierstorff

Reputation: 32780

If you are prepared to accept a less than elegant solution you could use

function getAccount(_gaq) {
    for (i = 0; i < _gaq.length; i++) {
        if (_gaq[i][0] == "_setAccount") {
            return _gaq[i][1];
        }
    }
}

_gaq is an array of arrays, the function simply loops through until it finds a subarray where the first element is _setAccount and returns the second element, which is the account number (_gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-XXXXX-X']);).

As you are talking of legacy implementations, there are even older versions of the code so you might need more checks. The oldest version I could find on an active page was:

<script type="text/javascript">
_uacct = "UA-XXXXXXXX-X";
urchinTracker();
</script>

It's quite easy to get the Account Id from there. There is also the synchronous version of the code (sorry, can't find an example right now).

And for the current version look at Petrs answer.

Upvotes: 1

Petr Havlik
Petr Havlik

Reputation: 3317

Joshua, this isn't a standard feature / get function that would be available.

You can however manually access ga object created by the tracking library.

If you for example open console for this webpage and type in:

ga.getAll()[0].a.data.values[':trackingId']

You will receive UA-5620270-1 which is probably the main Analytics Account for Stack Overflow. Similar approach should work in your case as well - and also any other attribute that's accessible:

Screen: http://fii.cz/sbdqevk

Upvotes: 2

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