Google Analytics in real time for personalization

Question

Is there a way in Google Analytics to get a visitors information in real time in order to personalize content?

For example, visitor A comes from Google using the "widgets" keyword and using a Chrome browser so I want to show him content related to Chrome based widgets.

Answer 1

Google Analytics provides a Real Time Reporting API as a developer preview in limited beta.

Real Time Reporting API Private Beta access request form.

With all the limitations that this means it may be worth giving a try.
You can find Java, PHP, and Python code examples on the documentation page: https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/reporting/realtime/v3/reference/data/realtime/get

In PHP this is the anatomy of the call to the API:

$optParams = array(
    'dimensions' => 'rt:medium');

try {
  $results = $analytics->data_realtime->get(
      'ga:56789',
      'rt:keyword',
      $optParams);