ruwer/toparticles

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Get the top read articles of your page.

dev-master 2016-07-08 13:58 UTC

Requires

• google/apiclient: ^2.0

Unknown License

• Ricardo Ruwer

• analytics
• articles
• read
• top

README

• A Laravel 5 package used to list your top articles by date.
• Uses Google Analytics API.

First of all

1.

• Go to: https://console.developers.google.com/apis/credentials
• Create credentials
• Service account key
• New service account
• Put the name, select JSON and Create!

2.

• Open the downloaded file.
• Copy the e-mail at "client_email".
• Go to: https://analytics.google.com
• Admin
• Select your account and go to User Management
• Paste the e-mail on the input and Add!
• Now copy the JSON file to your project.

Instalation

composer require "ruwer/toparticles":"dev-master"

Add to your config/app.php:

'providers' => [
    //...
    Ruwer\TopArticles\TopArticlesServiceProvider::class,
],

and:

'aliases' => [
    //...
    'TopArticles' => Ruwer\TopArticles\TopArticlesFacade::class,
],

In your terminal:

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Ruwer\TopArticles\TopArticlesServiceProvider"

composer dump-autoload

Now open the file: config/analytics.php and configure the path of your JSON file generated by Google Analytics.

How to use

In your controller:

use TopArticles;

TopArticles::get(
    "ga:xxxxxxxx", //Your Google Analytics Profile ID
    "7daysAgo", //Begin Date
    "today", //End date (you can also use Y-m-d)
    "(articles/)", //Regex for Filters (everything containing "articles/")
    10 //Results
);

//It'll return an array with your top viewed articles :)