README.md

Google Analytics Admin API examples

These samples show how to use the Google Analytics Admin API from Java.

Enable APIs - Enable the Analytics Admin API and create a new project or select an existing project.
Download The Credentials - Configure your project using Application Default Credentials. Click "Go to credentials" after enabling the APIs. Click "Create Credentials" and select "Service Account Credentials" and download the credentials file. Then set the path to this file to the environment variable GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS:
```
export GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS=/path/to/credentials.json
```

Clone the repo and cd into this directory

git clone https://github.com/googleanalytics/java-docs-samples
cd java-docs-samples/google-analytics-admin

Confirm that Maven is installed
```
mvn --version
```
Review the comments starting with TODO(developer) and update the code to use correct values.
Run with the command mvn compile exec:java -Dexec.mainClass=FULLY_QUALIFIED_SAMPLE_CLASS_NAME. For example:
```
mvn -q compile exec:java -Dexec.mainClass='com.google.analytics.admin.samples.QuickstartSample'
```