GA CLI

Command-line interface for Google Analytics 4.

Manage GA4 accounts, properties, data streams, and run reports — all from your terminal.

Features

Authentication

• OAuth 2.0 — Browser-based login flow with automatic token refresh
• Service accounts — Key-file authentication for CI/CD and server environments

GA4 Data API

• Reporting — Run standard, pivot, batch, funnel, and real-time reports
• Report builder — Interactive metric/dimension selection via ga reports build
• Compatibility checks — Validate metric/dimension combinations before running reports
• Metadata — Browse and search available metrics and dimensions

GA4 Admin API

• Accounts — List, inspect, update, delete accounts; view data sharing settings and change history
• Account summaries — Quick overview of all accounts and their properties
• Properties — List, create, inspect, update, delete properties; acknowledge user data collection; view API quotas
• Data streams — List, create, inspect, update, and delete web, Android, and iOS data streams
• Custom dimensions & metrics — List, create, inspect, update, and archive custom definitions
• Calculated metrics — List, create, inspect, update, and delete calculated metrics
• Key events — List, create, inspect, update, and delete key events (conversions)
• Audiences — List, create, inspect, update, and archive audiences
• Access bindings — Manage user-role assignments at account and property level
• Access reports — Run data-access reports (who accessed what) at account or property level
• Data retention — View and update event and user data retention settings
• Annotations — Create, update, and delete reporting data annotations
• Measurement Protocol secrets — Manage MP API secrets per data stream
• BigQuery links — List, create, update, and delete BigQuery export links
• Channel groups — Manage custom channel groupings
• Event create & edit rules — Manage server-side event creation and modification rules
• Firebase links — List, create, and delete Firebase project links
• Google Ads links — List, create, update, and delete Google Ads account links
• Property settings — View and update attribution, Google Signals, and enhanced measurement settings

Interactive usage

• Flexible output — Table (default), JSON, and compact output formats
• Shell completions — Generate completion scripts for bash, zsh, and fish
• Interactive setup — Guided configuration wizard via ga config setup
• Self-update — Check for and install updates via ga upgrade

Automation & agent integration

• Schema introspection — ga --describe outputs JSON Schema for all commands (MCP/agent-ready)
• Dry run — Preview mutative requests (create, update, delete) without executing them
• Structured errors — Categorized exit codes and JSON error output for programmatic handling
• Agent guide — Built-in AI agent quick reference via ga agent guide

Installation

From PyPI (recommended)

# pipx (recommended for CLI tools — isolated env)
pipx install google-analytics-cli

# uv
uv tool install google-analytics-cli

# pip
pip install google-analytics-cli

Quick install (script)

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/daidalytics/google-analytics-cli/master/install.sh | bash

From GitHub

# With uv
uv pip install git+https://github.com/daidalytics/google-analytics-cli.git

# With pip
pip install git+https://github.com/daidalytics/google-analytics-cli.git

From source

git clone https://github.com/daidalytics/google-analytics-cli.git
cd google-analytics-cli
uv sync
uv run ga --help

One-off execution (no install)

uvx --from git+https://github.com/daidalytics/google-analytics-cli.git ga --help

Quick Start

# 1. Authenticate
ga auth login

# 2. List your accounts
ga accounts list

# 3. List properties for an account
ga properties list --account-id 123456789

# 4. Run a report
ga reports run --property-id 987654321 \
  --metrics sessions,totalUsers \
  --dimensions date \
  --start-date 7daysAgo

Setup

1. Create OAuth credentials

Create an OAuth 2.0 Client ID in the Google Cloud Console:

1. Go to APIs & Services > Credentials
2. Click Create Credentials > OAuth client ID
3. Choose Desktop app as the application type
4. Download the JSON file

Make sure the following APIs are enabled in your GCP project:

• Google Analytics Admin API
• Google Analytics Data API

2. Configure client credentials

Copy the downloaded client_secret.json to the GA CLI config directory:

mkdir -p ~/.config/ga-cli
cp /path/to/client_secret.json ~/.config/ga-cli/client_secret.json

Alternatively, set environment variables:

export GA_CLI_CLIENT_ID="your-client-id"
export GA_CLI_CLIENT_SECRET="your-client-secret"

3. Authenticate

ga auth login

This opens your browser for Google OAuth consent and stores the token locally at ~/.config/ga-cli/credentials.json.

Service account (alternative)

ga auth login --service-account /path/to/key.json

Or set an environment variable:

export GA_CLI_SERVICE_ACCOUNT="/path/to/key.json"

Command Reference

Command	Subcommands	Description
ga auth	setup, login, logout, status	Manage authentication
ga config	setup, get, set, unset, path, reset	Manage CLI configuration
ga accounts	list, get, update, delete, get-data-sharing, change-history	Manage GA4 accounts
ga account-summaries	list	Quick overview of all accounts and properties
ga properties	list, get, create, update, delete, acknowledge-udc, quotas	Manage GA4 properties
ga custom-dimensions	list, get, create, update, archive	Manage custom dimensions
ga custom-metrics	list, get, create, update, archive	Manage custom metrics
ga calculated-metrics	list, get, create, update, delete	Manage calculated metrics
ga data-streams	list, get, create, update, delete	Manage data streams
ga key-events	list, get, create, update, delete	Manage key events (conversions)
ga audiences	list, get, create, update, archive	Manage audiences
ga access-bindings	list, get, create, update, delete	Manage user-role assignments
ga access-reports	run-account, run-property	Run data-access reports
ga data-retention	get, update	View and update data retention settings
ga annotations	list, get, create, update, delete	Manage reporting annotations
ga mp-secrets	list, get, create, update, delete	Manage Measurement Protocol secrets
ga bigquery-links	list, get, create, update, delete	Manage BigQuery export links
ga channel-groups	list, get, create, update, delete	Manage custom channel groups
ga event-create-rules	list, get, create, update, delete	Manage event creation rules
ga event-edit-rules	list, get, create, update, delete, reorder	Manage event editing rules
ga firebase-links	list, create, delete	Manage Firebase links
ga google-ads-links	list, create, update, delete	Manage Google Ads links
ga property-settings	attribution, google-signals, enhanced-measurement	View and update property settings
ga reports	run, pivot, batch, funnel, check-compatibility, metadata, realtime, build	Run and build reports
ga agent	guide	AI agent quick reference
ga upgrade	--check, --force	Check for and install updates
ga completions	bash, zsh, fish	Generate shell completion scripts

Use ga <command> --help for detailed usage of any command, or ga --describe for the full CLI schema as JSON.

Output formats

All read commands support --output (-o) to control output format:

ga accounts list --output json      # JSON output
ga accounts list --output table     # Table output (default)
ga accounts list --output compact   # Minimal ID + name output

Global Options

--help, -h      Show help
--version, -v   Show version
--quiet, -q     Suppress non-essential output
--no-color      Disable colored output
--describe      Show full CLI schema as JSON (for agents and tooling)

Shell Completions

ga completions bash > ~/.bash_completion.d/ga
ga completions zsh > ~/.zsh/completions/_ga
ga completions fish > ~/.config/fish/completions/ga.fish

Environment Variables

Variable	Description
GA_CLI_CLIENT_ID	OAuth client ID (alternative to client_secret.json)
GA_CLI_CLIENT_SECRET	OAuth client secret (alternative to client_secret.json)
GA_CLI_SERVICE_ACCOUNT	Path to service account key file
GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS	Standard GCP credential path (fallback)
GA_CLI_CONFIG_DIR	Override config directory
NO_COLOR	Disable colored output

CI/CD Integration

jobs:
  ga-report:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Install GA CLI
        run: pip install google-analytics-cli

      - name: Export daily report
        run: |
          echo '${{ secrets.GA_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_KEY }}' > /tmp/sa-key.json
          ga auth login --service-account /tmp/sa-key.json
          ga reports run -p ${{ vars.GA_PROPERTY_ID }} \
            --metrics sessions,users --dimensions date \
            --start-date 7daysAgo -o json > report.json
          rm /tmp/sa-key.json

Privacy

GA CLI stores authentication credentials locally on your machine. No data is sent to any third party — all communication is directly between your machine and Google's APIs.

Development

# Install with dev dependencies
uv sync

# Run the CLI
uv run ga --help

# Run tests
uv run pytest

# Lint
uv run ruff check src/ tests/

License

MIT