Feature request: REST API

[sanderpick]

I know this just launched on Vercel, but I'm curious if there will be an API to query page views and events... ideally w/ SQL? Let me know if there's a better place to ask this too.

[timolins]

Yes, an API is on our roadmap. We will keep you updated. 🙌

[mt-hagen]

Hi @timolins - Will this also apply to the Speed Insights data? I would love to use this data for a cusotm reporting dashboard!

[Svish]

I was also looking for this, as it would be a great tool to use for example in generateStaticParams with Next.js.

Instead of pre-generating all or none of the dynamic pages, one could instead use this to for example generate the top N visited pages.

Would be awesome if @vercel/analytics exported some simple utility functions for this!

// Imagined usage in `./src/app/products/[id]/[slug]/page.tsx`

export async function generateStaticParams() {
  return getStaticParamsMatching('/products/[id]/[slug]', { limit: 50 })
}

[masnwilliams]

Pinging this again to see where this is on the roadmap. Would pay to be able to query analytics through this npm library with a queryAnalytics({ queryParams... }).

[camcamcamcam]

Really hoping this happens sometime in 2023 so I can use the analytics coming out of Vercel in a BI tool. Especially now that GA has become pretty useless with some recent law changes in Canada.

[jtewright]

• 1 for this: want to automate analytics reporting / give a business person access to the analytics without giving them access to the whole dashboard

[spacecat]

Hi, I thought that this was already implemented but I learned today that it is not! 😬

Any ETA?

Thanks!

[shubhanshusingh]

any ETA?

[tobiaslins]

@shubhanshusingh @spacecat what are your usecases if you can share? Thanks!

[camcamcamcam]

@shubhanshusingh @spacecat what are your usecases if you can share? Thanks!

Pulling it into Power BI for analysis along side other sources of web analytics.

[tobiaslins]

@shubhanshusingh @spacecat what are your usecases if you can share? Thanks!

Pulling it into Power BI for analysis along side other sources of web analytics.

How would the connection work? Would you need aggregated or raw data? How many requests do you think you would make?

[spacecat]

@shubhanshusingh @spacecat what are your usecases if you can share? Thanks!

@tobiaslins Here's my use case:

vercel/next.js#73095

[sunech]

@shubhanshusingh @spacecat what are your usecases if you can share? Thanks!

I also miss the capability to pull visitors/page views via API, ideally for a specific period and with filtering capabilities on countries and URLs with wildcard support (like /usa/*).

We use the data to estimate available page views for our advertisers, and pulling the data via the user interface is a bit of a pain.

[camcamcamcam]

@shubhanshusingh @spacecat what are your usecases if you can share? Thanks!

Pulling it into Power BI for analysis along side other sources of web analytics.

How would the connection work? Would you need aggregated or raw data? How many requests do you think you would make?

I can build a custom connector for Power BI to talk to a REST API. Raw data would be the best because then I can filter it down to match the way platforms like Google Analytics aggregates data based on the date range. But also if it is aggregated in the same way, I'd still be happy.

As for number of requests? A few dozen a day at most? It'd be negligible seeing as these are for internal use.

[spacecat]

@shubhanshusingh @spacecat what are your usecases if you can share? Thanks!

I also miss the capability to pull visitors/page views via API, ideally for a specific period and with filtering capabilities on countries and URLs with wildcard support (like /usa/*).

We use the data to estimate available page views for our advertisers, and pulling the data via the user interface is a bit of a pain.

@sunech so you're currently scraping vercel.com web analytics dashboard?

[sunech]

@sunech so you're currently scraping vercel.com web analytics dashboard?

No, for most cases I can currently do with manually querying the numbers via the GUI and copying out the numbers I need.

[miguelalcalde]

Use case

A prospect resells their own Software as a whitelabled website, they host everything in Vercel using subdomains in one project. They're planning on splitting this into diff projects and, they want to be able to see reports for web analytics that

1. aggregates all the websites' analytics data, for their own internal reporting, so they can see how customers and business is going
2. shows within each project so they can give their customers access to the platform so they can also see web analytics.