google-analytics-electron

Google Analytics - Measurement Protocol API

The main purpose of this was to be used with Electron built apps.

Features

• Pageview
• Event
• Screenview
• Transaction
• Social
• Exception
• Refund
• Item
• User Timing Tracking
• Custom function for the rest (send)

Getting started

Installation

npm i google-analytics-electron

• Init

  Analytics(trackingID, { userAgent, debug, version })

  import Analytics from 'google-analytics-electron'
  const analytics = new Analytics('UA-XXXXXXXX-X')
  

• Pageview

  Analytics#pageview(hostname, url, title)

  return analytics.pageview('http://example.com', '/home', 'Example')
    .then((response) => {
      return response
    })
    .catch((err) => {
      return err
    })
  

  If you want to keep the session you need to specify the clientID.

• Event

  Analytics#event(evCategory, evAction, { evLabel, evValue })

  const analytics = new Analytics('UA-XXXXXXXX-X', { clientID: 'xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx' })
  return analytics.event('Video', 'play', { evLabel: 'holiday', evValue: 300})
    .then((response) => {
      return response
    })
    .catch((err) => {
      return err
    })
  

• Screenview

  Analytics#screen(screenName)

  const analytics = new Analytics('UA-XXXXXXXX-X', { 
    appName: 'test', 
    appVersion: '1.0.0', 
    appID: 'com.app.test', 
    appInstallerID:'com.app.installer'
  })
  return analytics.screen('Test')
    .then((response) => {
      return response
    })
    .catch((err) => {
      return err
    })
  

• Transaction

  Analytics#transaction(trnID, { trnAffil, trnRev, trnShip, trnTax, currCode } = {})

  return analytics.transaction(123)
    .then((response) => {
      return response
    })
    .catch((err) => {
      return err
    })
  

• Social

  Analytics#social(socialAction, socialNetwork, socialTarget)

  return analytics.social('like', 'facebook', 'home')
    .then((response) => {
      return response
    })
    .catch((err) => {
      return err
    })
  

• Exception

  Analytics#exception(exDesc, exFatal)

  return analytics.exception('IOException', 1)
    .then((response) => {
      return response
    })
    .catch((err) => {
      return err
    })
  

• Refund

  Analytics#refund(transactionID, evCategory = 'Ecommerce', evAction = 'Refund', nonInteraction = 1)

  return analytics.refund('T123')
    .then((response) => {
      return response
    })
    .catch((err) => {
      return err
    })
  

• Item

  Analytics#item(trnID, itemName, { itemPrice, itemQty, itemSku, itemVariation, currCode } = {})

  return analytics.item('123', 'Test item')
    .then((response) => {
      return response
    })
    .catch((err) => {
      return err
    })
  

• User Timing Tracking

  Analytics#timingTrk(timingCtg, timingVar, timingTime, { timingLbl, dns, pageDownTime, redirTime, tcpConnTime, serverResTime } = {})

  return analytics.timingTrk('Category', 'jsonLoader', 123)
    .then((response) => {
      return response
    })
    .catch((err) => {
      return err
    })
  

• Send (for everything else for now)

  Analytics#send(hitType, params)

  return analytics.send('social', { sa: 'social', sn: 'facebook', st: 'home' })
    .then((response) => {
      return response
    })
    .catch((err) => {
      return err
    })
  

Tests

cross-env TRACKING_ID='UA-XXXXXXXX-X' npm test

License

MIT