Connect to Google Analytics Data and Transfer Data in Talend

This article shows how you can easily integrate the CData JDBC driver for Google Analytics into your workflow in Talend. This article uses the CData JDBC Driver for Google Analytics to transfer Google Analytics data in a job flow in Talend.

Connect to Google Analytics in Talend as a JDBC Data Source

You can follow the procedure below to establish a JDBC connection to Google Analytics:

1. Add a new database connection to Google Analytics data: To add a new connection, expand the Metadata node, right-click the Db Connections node, and then click Create Connection.
2. In the resulting wizard, enter a name for the connection.

3. On the next page, select Generic JDBC from the DB Type menu and enter the JDBC URL.

   Google uses the OAuth authentication standard. To access Google APIs on behalf on individual users, you can use the embedded credentials or you can register your own OAuth app.

   OAuth also enables you to use a service account to connect on behalf of users in a Google Apps domain. To authenticate with a service account, you will need to register an application to obtain the OAuth JWT values.

   In addition to the OAuth values, set Profile to the profile you want to connect to. This can be set to either the Id or website URL for the Profile. If not specified, the first Profile returned will be used.

   Built-in Connection String Designer

   For assistance in constructing the JDBC URL, use the connection string designer built into the Google Analytics JDBC Driver. Either double-click the JAR file or execute the jar file from the command-line.

   java -jar cdata.jdbc.googleanalytics.jar

   Fill in the connection properties and copy the connection string to the clipboard.

   A typical JDBC URL is below:

   jdbc:googleanalytics:Profile=MyProfile;InitiateOAuth=GETANDREFRESH
4. Enter the path to the cdata.jdbc.googleanalytics.jar file, located in the lib subfolder of the installation directory.
5. Right-click the connection and then click Retrieve Schema.
6. Click Next with the default options to select the tables you want to import.
7. Finish the wizard with the default options.

Output the Traffic Table to a Flat File

You can follow the procedure below to transfer the Traffic table to a flat file output component:

1. In the Table Schemas node, drag the tables to the workspace.
2. In the dialog that is displayed, select the tJDBCInput component.
3. Next, drag a tFileOutputDelimited component from the Business Intelligence tab of the Palette into the workspace.
4. Right-click the Traffic tJDBCInput component and drag a vector to the output file.

Run the project to transfer the data.