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copied!<p>So, this is my understanding of what you're doing:</p> <p>You're setting page-level custom variables (important technical note: these need to be called before the _trackPageview or some other call, else they won't be tracked.) </p> <p>Your code might looks something like this:</p> <pre><code>_gaq.push(['_setCustomVar', 2, 'Brand', 3]); </code></pre> <p>Now, when querying the Google Analytics API, its important to note that the slot # is very important, since the slot you're accessing is explicitly named in the query. </p> <p>So, to do this, you'd need to set your dimensions to <code>ga:customVarName2</code> and <code>ga:customVarValue2</code>, and decide what metric you're interesting it getting. You mention Page views, so you'd use <code>ga:pageviews</code>. (You're by no means limited to pageviews. You can use any Metric besides a couple of the AdWords specific ones.)</p> <p>This query would return you all of the custom variable from this slot, and the number of pageviews associated with them.</p> <p>You also mentioned you'd want to be able to filter by value.</p> <p>You'd do that by setting the filter value to something like <code>ga:customVarValue2==Apple</code>. </p> <p>You can see what a query like that <a href="http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/gdata/gdataExplorer.html?dimensions=ga%253AcustomVarName2%252Cga%253AcustomVarValue2&metrics=ga%253Apageviews&filters=ga%253AcustomVarValue1%253D%253DApple&start-date=2011-01-16&end-date=2011-01-30&max-results=50" rel="nofollow noreferrer">would look like here in the query explorer</a>.</p> <p>Here's a sample screenshot: <img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/sdJlc.png" alt="enter image description here"></p> <p>Finally, all Google Analytics API queries by default require you to set a date range, so you could query that on your own. </p> <p>All you need to do is decide <a href="http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/gdata/gdataLibraries.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">which library</a> you want to use as interface, and you're set to go. </p>

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