Using nextLink attribute to get the next result page

Question

I'm using the Google APIs python client to download some data from Google Analytics. I basically copied one of their exampels and modified it to do exactly what I need.

I took this piece of code from the examples:

request = service.data().ga().get(
    ids=ids,
    start_date=str(start_date),
    end_date=str(end_date),
    dimensions=','.join(dimensions),
    filters=filters,
    sort="ga:date",
    metrics=','.join(metrics)
)

Then add it to the batch object, and execute it once it has collected 10 requests. This all works well, but the problem is, some of those requests return a nextLink. Now I could just create a new request object (with the above code) with a different start-index, but isn't there a better way?

Is there a way to just parse the nextLink into a new request object?

Answer 1

I'm using this approach:

firstRun = True
params = {'ids':'ga:00000001',
        'start_date':'2013-07-01',
        'end_date':'2013-07-31',
        'metrics':'ga:visits',
        'dimensions':'ga:source',
        'sort':'-ga:visits',
        'start_index':1,
        'max_results':10000}

while firstRun == True or result.get('nextLink'):
    if firstRun == False:
        params['start_index'] = int(params['start_index']) + int(params['max_results'])

    result = service.data().ga().get(**params).execute()
    firstRun = False