Is it possible to fetch Online Sessions / Traffic data which is shown in the Analytics section?

[marvelous42]

Hi there.

I am trying to recreate some of the analytics/reports data which cannot be accessed through the Analytics API anymore due to deprecation. 

So the question is: Can I fetch online sessions (traffic) data which is natively tracked from the website? Here I am not talking about the views of each product which is accessible, but overall traffic!

Thanks.

[Liam]

Hi Marvelous42,

To measure overall traffic you may be more successful with using analytics tools like Google Analytics, as there's no direct API endpoint for accessing online store traffic. 

[marvelous42]

So the traffic data from the dashboard cannot be fetched through the API?

[JoseR_uf]

How come there is no endpoint to the sessions and traffic data you gather?
Sessions measured by Google Analytics differ +/- 10% from what i can see in my store dashboard because of how GA4 measures this, and i would like to keep uniform data for analysis. Are there really no plans to fetch this data in REST API?

[marvelous42]

My point exactly, it also seems like a lot of extra work to add an third party analytics tool just to get the basic information Shopify already has 😕 We are building an app for the marketplace, so we need to require that every single store has GA etc. installed.

[Liam]

From looking through our APIs, it doesn't seem that the analytics data is currently exposed by API endpoints, but I've added this as a feature request to our internal dev team.

[marvelous42]

Thanks for the reply Liam. So for the time being we will require that our clients installing the app from the marketplace needs apply a third party analytics in order to get this data, is that correctly understood?

[DMJerry402]

Hello @marvelous42 .  Did you get an answer for this?  I am using DOMO and I no longer see the traffic or session end point when trying to connect, so I'm thinking they haven't added it back.

@Liam - Do you know if this is still correct or do we have a workaround that doesn't involve G4 or UA?  Really need our clients to be able to tie to the reports in the management portal.

[Mauricio_]

Hello @Liam. Any updates?

[Peter_Datma]

Hello Marvelous42,

Quick question, you said that the data for product views is accessible, how can you access it? 

Thanks!

Peter @ Datma (product analytics & reporting)