fetch_traffic_for_rb: Download traffic data for a research briefing with the given...

In olihawkins/clga: Download Traffic Data for Commons Library content from Google Analytics

Description

fetch_traffic_for_rb downloads data on traffic metrics for a given research briefing url on both the main Parliament website and the Parliamentary intranet during the given dates and returns the data as a tibble.

Usage

fetch_traffic_for_rb(
  url,
  start_date,
  end_date,
  internal = FALSE,
  by_date = FALSE,
  combine = FALSE,
  anti_sample = FALSE,
  use_resource_quotas = FALSE
)

Arguments

url	The URL of a page for which traffic data is requested.
start_date	The start date as an ISO 8601 string.
end_date	The end date as an ISO 8601 string.
internal	A boolean indicating whether to return only the results for traffic from internal parliamentary networks. The default is FALSE.
by_date	A boolean indicating whether to return the results broken down by date. The default is FALSE.
combine	A boolean indicating whether to combine the totals from different properties or to report them separately. Note that combining the traffic across properties can introduce errors in the number of users, as the same user may visit pages on different properties. The default is FALSE.
anti_sample	A boolean indicating whether to use googleAnalyticsR's anti-sample feature, which chunks API calls to keep the number of records requested under the API limits that trigger sampling. This makes the download process slower but ensures that all records are returned. Only use this feature if you see that an API request triggers sampling without it. The default is FALSE.
use_resource_quotas	A boolean indicating whether to use the resource quotas in Parliament's Google Analytics account to prevent sampling. This is a faster and more effective way to disable sampling than using anti_sample, but using resource quotas consumes tokens from a limited daily quota. Use this when anti_sample still fails to prevent sampling or is taking too long. Note that using resource quotas takes precendence over anti-samping: if use_resource_quotas is TRUE anti_sample is automatically set to FALSE. The default is FALSE.

Details

By default, traffic figures are reported separately for each website property in Google Analytics that contains some of the requested data. You can use the combine argument to optionally combine traffic figures so that each result appears only once with figures totalled across all relevant properties. This makes it easier to produce aggregate figures for traffic across a number of properties, but may introduce errors in the number of users, as the same user may visit pages on different properties.

Value

A tibble of traffic metrics.

olihawkins/clga documentation built on Sept. 17, 2020, 7:19 a.m.