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    copied!<p><strong>Edit</strong> <em>refurbished the question that was not clear</em></p> <p>New to GA, I'm looking at the way to retrieve automatically custom variables data statistics</p> <p>The query would have</p> <ul> <li>a <em>start</em> and an <em>end</em> dates (possibly equal)</li> <li>a <em>variable</em> name</li> </ul> <p>For instance, a <em>Page-level</em> variable <code>Brand</code> takes only three possible values, that are set by the web server, and seen by the client.<br/> The values are <em>Apple</em>, <em>Google</em> and <em>Microsoft</em>.</p> <p>The query to Google-Analytics could be something like (pseudo-code), provided that I use an authentication token previously acquired</p> <pre><code> ...getstatistics?myToken=123&amp;variable=Brand&amp;datefrom=20110121&amp;dateto=20110121 </code></pre> <p>And the result could be some xml like data</p> <pre><code> &lt;variable&gt;Brand&lt;/variable&gt;&lt;value&gt;Apple&lt;/value&gt;&lt;count&gt;3214&lt;/count&gt; &lt;variable&gt;Brand&lt;/variable&gt;&lt;value&gt;Google&lt;/value&gt;&lt;count&gt;4321&lt;/count&gt; &lt;variable&gt;Brand&lt;/variable&gt;&lt;value&gt;Microsoft&lt;/value&gt;&lt;count&gt;1345&lt;/count&gt; </code></pre> <p>Meaning for instance that the page-level custom variable <em>Brand</em> was set to the value <em>Apple</em> by the web server (and thus seen by the client / sent to GA) 3214 times.</p> <p>What is the correct way/protocol to query values/statistics from GA, in order to get statistics related to custom variables?</p>
 

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