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Reputation: 11

how to user CURL to send our request to www.google-analytics.com/collect

I have been going though the documentation for the Universal analytics measurement protocol

I have gotten theurl and parameter, now I have a question is that how I can make a HTTP request with CURL, here is my request:

curl https://www.google-analytics.com/collect -d v=1&tid=UA-123456-1&cid=5555&t=pageview&dp=%2FpageA

Error:

Warning: Binary output can mess up your terminal. Use "--output -" to tell Warning: curl to output it to your terminal anyway, or consider "--output Warning: " to save to a file.

Can you tell me what is wrong in my request?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1027

Answers (1)

Linda Lawton - DaImTo
Linda Lawton - DaImTo

Reputation: 117261

I would test it with the debug endpoint first.

curl 'https://www.google-analytics.com/debug/collect?v=1&tid=UA-123456-1&cid=5555&t=pageview&dp=%2FpageA'

The response says its all good.

{
  "hitParsingResult": [ {
    "valid": true,
    "parserMessage": [ ],
    "hit": "/debug/collect?v=1\u0026tid=UA-123456-1\u0026cid=5555\u0026t=pageview\u0026dp=%2FpageA"
  } ],
  "parserMessage": [ {
    "messageType": "INFO",
    "description": "Found 1 hit in the request."
  } ]
}

Followed by sending the actual hit.

curl 'https://www.google-analytics.com/collect?v=1&tid=UA-123456-1&cid=5555&t=pageview&dp=%2FpageA'

Upvotes: 0

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