We've heard requests for a Dashboard API before. I can certainly see the usefulness of being able to not just do read operations, but write operations as well. Make sure to star the issue and get others to do it.
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 10:51 AM, Peter Recore <[email protected]>wrote: > doesn't Google Analytics require JavaScript to be active on the > client? If so, that would ignore hits from various categories of > clients like people running no-script and agents making API calls > through some kind of web service. i think it would also ignore > internal requests, like from a cron job. > > On Apr 26, 10:03 am, "Nick Johnson (Google)" <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hi Chris, > > > > Have you considered simply using Google Analytics? > > > > -Nick Johnson > > > > > > > > On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 8:05 AM, Chris Killpack <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > I recently discovered that I had become a human cron-job: every night > > > around 11:50pm PST I would log into the GAE dashboard, total the number > of > > > requests in my app and store them in a spreadsheet so I could track > load > > > over time. > > > > > I've found no mention of a dashboard API, which leaves scraping the > > > HTML. This is non trivial because I have to deal with the Account login > > > page, which I expect goes out of it's way to make auto login's hard. I > > > thought about hard-coding the relevant cookies into the cron job, > generating > > > new ones by manual login every time the existing ones fail. But it > appears > > > the relevant cookies only last 24 hours, so I'm back to my nightly > routine. > > > > > Is there another way to retrieve this info, and if not, are there plans > for > > > such a mechanism? I've found an open issue: > > > > >http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=655&can=5&c. > .. > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > Chris > > > > > -- > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups > > > "Google App Engine" group. > > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > . > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > > [email protected]<google-appengine%[email protected]> > <google-appengine%[email protected]<google-appengine%[email protected]> > > > > > . > > > For more options, visit this group at > > >http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. > > > > -- > > Nick Johnson, Developer Programs Engineer, App Engine Google Ireland Ltd. > :: > > Registered in Dublin, Ireland, Registration Number: 368047 > > Google Ireland Ltd. :: Registered in Dublin, Ireland, Registration > Number: > > 368047 > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google App Engine" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<google-appengine%[email protected]> > . > > For more options, visit this group athttp:// > groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google App Engine" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<google-appengine%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. > > -- Ikai Lan Developer Relations, Google App Engine Twitter: http://twitter.com/ikai Delicious: http://delicious.com/ikailan ---------------- Google App Engine links: Blog: http://googleappengine.blogspot.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/app_engine Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/appengine -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.
