"Not sufficient permissions" google analytics API service account

Question

I'm trying to fetch data with the Google Analytics API through service accounts.

I have been searching on stackoverflow how to do this and been using the exact same code found on several posts but getting problems to get it working.

Sources:

Service Applications and Google Analytics API V3: Server-to-server OAuth2 authentication?

Service Applications and Google Analytics API V3: Error 101 (net::ERR_CONNECTION_RESET)

http://code.google.com/p/google-api-php-client/source/browse/trunk/examples/prediction/serviceAccount.php

This is what i got:

require_once('googleAPIGoogle_Client.php'); require_once('googleAPI/contrib/Google_AnalyticsService.php');  const CLIENT_ID = 'xxxxxxxx001.apps.googleusercontent.com'; const SERVICE_ACCOUNT_NAME = '[email protected]';   $keyfile = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']."/xxxxxxx284-privatekey.p12";   $client = new Google_Client(); $client->setAccessType('offline'); $client->setApplicationName("cc insights");   $key = file_get_contents($keyfile); $client->setClientId(CLIENT_ID);  $client->setAssertionCredentials(new Google_AssertionCredentials(     SERVICE_ACCOUNT_NAME,     array('https://www.googleapis.com/auth/analytics.readonly'),     $key) );   $service = new Google_AnalyticsService($client);  $data = $service->data_ga->get("ga:xxxx7777", "2012-01-01", "2013-01-25", "ga:pageviews"); var_dump($data); 

when executing i got the following error:

Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'Google_ServiceException' with message 'Error calling GET https://www.googleapis.com/analytics/v3/data/ga?ids=ga%3Axxxx7777&start-date=2012-01-01&end-date=2013-01-25&metrics=ga%3Apageviews: (403) User does not have sufficient permissions for this profile.' in /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/htdocs/insights/application/libraries/googleAPI/io/Google_REST.php:66 Stack trace: #0 /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/htdocs/insights/application/libraries/googleAPI/io/Google_REST.php(36): Google_REST::decodeHttpResponse(Object(Google_HttpRequest)) #1 /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/htdocs/insights/application/libraries/googleAPI/service/Google_ServiceResource.php(178): Google_REST::execute(Object(Google_HttpRequest)) #2 /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/htdocs/insights/application/libraries/googleAPI/contrib/Google_AnalyticsService.php(383): Google_ServiceResource->__call('get', Array) #3 /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/htdocs/insights/application/libraries/Google.php(46): Google_DataGaServiceResource->get('g in /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/htdocs/insights/application/libraries/googleAPI/io/Google_REST.php on line 66

Because i'm using the exact same code as working examples, i think it might be a problem with the API or service account settings?

This is the user that i added to the analytics account :

and this is api access accounts:

Does anybody know what i'm doing wrong?

Answer 1

I was getting exactly the same error and this solved it for me:

I was using the account ID instead of the View ID. Switching to the View ID fixed it - it’s always the “View ID” and not the account or property ID (which looks like “UA-xxx”). The View ID is for a specific web property and can be found in the Admin->View (3rd column)->View Settings. It’s an integer with no dashes.

https://stackoverflow.com/a/15789266/1391229