In Google Analytics, we are able to create segments like below:
From the Google Analytics API explorer, we can pull the segment information be it by segment id or by its code:
I would assume we can just cut and paste that code into the google analytics core reporting v3 reference code like we do with all the other parameters:
When I run the code however, I get this error:
Arg, there was an API error : 400 : Invalid value 'users::condition::dateOfSession==2015-04-30;ga:sessionCount==1;condition::ga:campaign=@33100;sessions::condition::ga:userType=@Returning Visitor'
for segment parameter.
I am not sure what could be wrong. When I use the segment id instead in my code for the segment parameter(segment ='gaid::xxxxxxx'), i get this error:
Arg, there was an API error : 400 : Segment XXXXXXXXXXX is not supported in the API.
Not sure how I should structure the code.
I found the solution after tweaking with the segment code and reading more about segments in the segments dev guide.
I was having issues with the dateOfsession parameter where i should have used '<>' instead of '=' for the date. So this is what i should have done:
dateOfsession<>2015-04-30_2015-04-30
Somehow using '==' doesn't work.
The dateOfsession is a new parameter in the GA API and hence have little examples and documentation about it.