Profile Filter Links: insert

Requires authorization

Create a new profile filter link. Try it now or see an example.

Request

HTTP request

POST https://www.googleapis.com/analytics/v3/management/accounts/accountId/webproperties/webPropertyId/profiles/profileId/profileFilterLinks

Parameters

Parameter name Value Description
Path parameters
accountId string Account ID to create profile filter link for.
profileId string Profile ID to create filter link for.
webPropertyId string Web property Id to create profile filter link for.

Authorization

This request requires authorization with the following scope (read more about authentication and authorization).

Scope
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/analytics.edit

Request body

In the request body, supply a Profile Filter Links resource with the following properties:

Property name Value Description Notes
Required Properties
filterRef.id string Filter ID. writable
Optional Properties
rank integer The rank of this profile filter link relative to the other filters linked to the same profile.

For readonly (i.e., list and get) operations, the rank always starts at 1.

For write (i.e., create, update, or delete) operations, you may specify a value between 0 and 255 inclusively, [0, 255]. In order to insert a link at the end of the list, either don't specify a rank or set a rank to a number greater than the largest rank in the list. In order to insert a link to the beginning of the list specify a rank that is less than or equal to 1. The new link will move all existing filters with the same or lower rank down the list. After the link is inserted/updated/deleted all profile filter links will be renumbered starting at 1.

writable

Response

If successful, this method returns a Profile Filter Links resource in the response body.

Examples

Note: The code examples available for this method do not represent all supported programming languages (see the client libraries page for a list of supported languages).

Java

Uses the Java client library.

/*
 * Note: This code assumes you have an authorized Analytics service object.
 * See the Filters Developer Guide for details.
 */

/*
 * This request creates a new profile filter link.
 */

// Construct the filter reference.
FilterRef filterRef = new FilterRef();
filterRef.setId("1223334444");

// Construct the body of the request.
ProfileFilterLink body = new ProfileFilterLink();
body.setFilterRef(filterRef);

try {
analytics.management().profileFilterLinks().insert("123456",
    "UA-123456-1", "7654321", body).execute();
} catch (GoogleJsonResponseException e) {
  System.err.println("There was a service error: "
      + e.getDetails().getCode() + " : "
      + e.getDetails().getMessage());
}

Python

Uses the Python client library.

# Note: This code assumes you have an authorized Analytics service object.
# See the Filters Developer Guide for details.

# This request creates a new profile filter link.
try:
  analytics.management().profileFilterLinks().insert(
      accountId='123456',
      webPropertyId='UA-123456-1',
      profileId='7654321',
      body={
          'filterRef': {
              'id': '1223334444'
          }
      }
  ).execute()

except TypeError, error:
  # Handle errors in constructing a query.
  print 'There was an error in constructing your query : %s' % error

except HttpError, error:
  # Handle API errors.
  print ('There was an API error : %s : %s' %
         (error.resp.status, error.resp.reason))

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