Hey, Not sure why this happens to me, Any ideas? thanks

One important point is that the visits to the views which generate those events are from a chrome extension (no an actual page view), so maybe something is missing from the user's request.

Here's my code (removed personal data):

def reportGA(category,action,label,request):
    try:
        x_forwarded_for = request.META.get('HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR')
        if x_forwarded_for:
            ip = x_forwarded_for.split(',')[0]
        else:
            ip = request.META.get('REMOTE_ADDR')
        print ip
        from pyga.requests import Tracker, Page, Event, Session, Visitor
        tracker = Tracker('UA-********-1', '******.com')
        visitor = Visitor()
        visitor.ip_address = '' #ip
        session = Session()
        event = Event(category,action,label)
        tracker.track_event(event, session, visitor)
    except:
        print "failed to report to GA"

Actually unique_id in Visitor is lazy and that will be a problem if you try to serialize it before unique_id is used, for example if

try:
    visitor = loads(user.googleanalytics.serialized_user.encode('ascii'))
except GoogleAnalytics.DoesNotExist:
    visitor = Visitor()
    visitor.ip_address = '8.8.8.8'
    GoogleAnalytics.objects.create(user=user, serialized_user=dumps(visitor))

tracker = Tracker('UA-12-13', 'domain.com')

page = Page(request_data.get('page', ''))

tracker.track_pageview(page, Session(), visitor)

As it is serialized and saved in database before tracker.track_pageview, unique_id was never acessed so it will be None and if you deserialize it and access unique_id, it will not be the same. I think, it could be like this https://github.com/jaysonsantos/py-ga-mob/commit/861f149b81f7955629419b657afd0ee575266857

To reproduce the bug, use a unicode string event = GAEvent(category='category', action='action', label=u'éàè') tracker.track_event(event, session, visitor)

Maybe we should replace ''.join(map(_translate, str(value))) by u''.join(map(_translate, value)).encode('utf-8')?

Maybe some explanations here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9942594/unicodeencodeerror-ascii-codec-cant-encode-character-u-xa0-in-position-20

Unless I'm missing something, I don't believe that event tracking works properly.

In particular, I perform the following sequence of operations:

from pyga.requests import Tracker, Session, Visitor, Event
tracker = Tracker('MO-XXXXX-X', 'yourdomain.com')
visitor = Visitor()
visitor.ip_address = '194.54.176.12'
session = Session()
event = requests.Event(category, action, label)
tracker.track_event(event, session, visitor)

Yet when I check Google analytics the next day, none of the events that I explicitly executed make it to Google analytics.

Is there some other step that I'm missing?

Remove dependency on six, and made python3 compatible.

Probably worth doing a major release with only python 3 support, this library may get a bit more attention with new browser tracking script blocking that's happening in firefox and safari.

Batch requests allows batching upto 20 requests. This can reduce the number of requests that the application has to make 20 folds.

Here is more on batch requests: https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/protocol/v1/devguide#batch

Hi, I am looking forward to track the visit on an url of my django website. Url that doesn't have a page, and will have a different behaviour depending if you are on mobile or desktop.

The thing is, as I just want to know the traffic on it, I copied pasted your example (that seems to be enough for what I want) from your doc: tracker = Tracker('UA-XXXXX-XX', 'mydomain.com') visitor = Visitor() visitor.ip_address = '194.54.176.12' session = Session() page = Page('/en/directdownload') tracker.track_pageview(page, session, visitor)

but then, when I go to the url I have this error:

sequence item 0: expected a bytes-like object, NoneType found Request Method: GET Request URL: http://192.168.33.15:8000/en/directdownload/ Django Version: 1.7.10 Exception Type: TypeError Exception Value:
sequence item 0: expected a bytes-like object, NoneType found Exception Location: /usr/lib/python3.4/http/client.py in putheader, line 1067

Do you have any idea about it?

After installing the package via pip, the init.py from the source distribution does not exist. It is instead replaced by:

pyga-2.4.2-py2.7-nspkg.pth

Which does some magic to make sure that sys.modules is updated correctly

I am installing pyga and deploying it to appspot and the import fails because init.py is missing.

In setup.py, the version and license information would get imported from pyga.requests - a module that imports six. Therefore installation never works when six is not yet installed, even though it's listed as a requirement.

Thanks for the awesome library.

I started including the anonimize ip and the user agent as a holder for the Operating system... but now the data in the language section is getting all these extra params.

Any thought on this?

Doing a pip install -U -r on our requirements file which list "pyga", results in the following error after the release of pyga 2.5.0. The issue appears to be that pip is trying to install from the pyga-2.5.0.linux-x86_64.tar.gz file instead of pyga-2.5.0.tar.gz

Downloading/unpacking pyga from https://pypi.python.org/packages/any/p/pyga/pyga-2.5.0.linux-x86_64.tar.gz#md5=1426b2f4cc326a85877d7682ee292fd7 (from -r requirements_dev.txt (line 17)) build 30-Aug-2013 20:11:14 Downloading pyga-2.5.0.linux-x86_64.tar.gz build 30-Aug-2013 20:11:14 Running setup.py egg_info for package pyga build 30-Aug-2013 20:11:14 Traceback (most recent call last): build 30-Aug-2013 20:11:14 File "", line 16, in build 30-Aug-2013 20:11:14 IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/tmp/venv/build/pyga/setup.py' build 30-Aug-2013 20:11:14 Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info: build 30-Aug-2013 20:11:14 Traceback (most recent call last): build 30-Aug-2013 20:11:14
build 30-Aug-2013 20:11:14 File "", line 16, in build 30-Aug-2013 20:11:14
build 30-Aug-2013 20:11:14 IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/tmp/venv/build/pyga/setup.py' build 30-Aug-2013 20:11:14
build 30-Aug-2013 20:11:14 ---------------------------------------- build 30-Aug-2013 20:11:14 Command python setup.py egg_info failed with error code 1 in /tmp/venv/build/pyga

Describe the bug I can see this error if I have: query_string > 2036. As I can see the problem in pyga.requsts.py in build_http_request link to method

So, as you can see when query_string > 2036 we try to use post and set query_string as a data post = query_string. Than it raise this error.

Error stack-trace:

File "pyga/requests.py", line 880, in track_event
          request.fire()
  File "pyga/requests.py", line 110, in fire
              self.__send()
  File "pyga/requests.py", line 96, in __send
                  request, timeout=self.config.request_timeout)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/urllib/request.py", line 222, in urlopen
      return opener.open(url, data, timeout)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/urllib/request.py", line 523, in open
              req = meth(req)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/urllib/request.py", line 1280, in do_request_
                  raise TypeError(msg)
TypeError: POST data should be bytes, an iterable of bytes, or a file object. It cannot be of type str.

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Use Python3.7
2. Build http request where query_string > 2036 and use this library
3. See error

Expected behavior It should not give an error.