Pull traffic acquisition data like referrers, sources, channels, and campaigns from the acquisition endpoints.
Acquisition endpoints use flat reporting query parameters: GET https://data.goodmetrics.io/{gmID}/events/acquisition/{resource}?start={start}&end={end}.
Example:
curl "https://data.goodmetrics.io/{gmID}/events/acquisition/referrers?start=1771872000&end=1772476799&page=1&limit=10&sort_by=sessions&dir=desc&utm_source_medium_contains=google" \ -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY"const gmID = '{gmID}';const apiKey = 'YOUR_API_KEY';const params = new URLSearchParams({ "start": "1771872000", "end": "1772476799", "page": "1", "limit": "10", "sort_by": "sessions", "dir": "desc", "utm_source_medium_contains": "google"});
const response = await fetch(`https://data.goodmetrics.io/${gmID}/events/acquisition/referrers?${params}`, { headers: { Authorization: `Bearer ${apiKey}` }});
console.log(await response.json());import jsonimport urllib.parseimport urllib.request
gm_id = "{gmID}"api_key = "YOUR_API_KEY"params = urllib.parse.urlencode({ "start": "1771872000", "end": "1772476799", "page": "1", "limit": "10", "sort_by": "sessions", "dir": "desc", "utm_source_medium_contains": "google"})
request = urllib.request.Request( f"https://data.goodmetrics.io/{gm_id}/events/acquisition/referrers?{params}", headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {api_key}"},)
with urllib.request.urlopen(request) as response: print(json.load(response))import java.net.URI;import java.net.http.HttpClient;import java.net.http.HttpRequest;import java.net.http.HttpResponse;
class GoodMetricsExample { public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception { var gmID = "{gmID}"; var apiKey = "YOUR_API_KEY"; var url = "https://data.goodmetrics.io/" + gmID + "/events/acquisition/referrers?start=1771872000&end=1772476799&page=1&limit=10&sort_by=sessions&dir=desc&utm_source_medium_contains=google";
var request = HttpRequest.newBuilder() .uri(URI.create(url)) .header("Authorization", "Bearer " + apiKey) .GET() .build();
var response = HttpClient.newHttpClient().send(request, HttpResponse.BodyHandlers.ofString()); System.out.println(response.body()); }}using System;using System.Collections.Generic;using System.Linq;using System.Net.Http;using System.Net.Http.Headers;
var gmID = "{gmID}";var apiKey = "YOUR_API_KEY";var query = new Dictionary<string, string>{ ["start"] = "1771872000", ["end"] = "1772476799", ["page"] = "1", ["limit"] = "10", ["sort_by"] = "sessions", ["dir"] = "desc", ["utm_source_medium_contains"] = "google"};var queryString = string.Join("&", query.Select(parameter => $"{Uri.EscapeDataString(parameter.Key)}={Uri.EscapeDataString(parameter.Value)}"));
var url = $"https://data.goodmetrics.io/{gmID}/events/acquisition/referrers?{queryString}";
using var client = new HttpClient();using var request = new HttpRequestMessage(HttpMethod.Get, url);request.Headers.Authorization = new AuthenticationHeaderValue("Bearer", apiKey);
using var response = await client.SendAsync(request);Console.WriteLine(await response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync());<?php$gmID = "{gmID}";$apiKey = "YOUR_API_KEY";$params = http_build_query([ "start" => "1771872000", "end" => "1772476799", "page" => "1", "limit" => "10", "sort_by" => "sessions", "dir" => "desc", "utm_source_medium_contains" => "google"]);
$url = "https://data.goodmetrics.io/{$gmID}/events/acquisition/referrers?{$params}";
$context = stream_context_create([ "http" => [ "method" => "GET", "header" => "Authorization: Bearer {$apiKey}\r\n", ],]);
$response = file_get_contents($url, false, $context);echo $response;package main
import ( "fmt" "io" "net/http" "net/url")
func main() { gmID := "{gmID}" apiKey := "YOUR_API_KEY"
params := url.Values{} params.Set("start", "1771872000") params.Set("end", "1772476799") params.Set("page", "1") params.Set("limit", "10") params.Set("sort_by", "sessions") params.Set("dir", "desc") params.Set("utm_source_medium_contains", "google")
request, _ := http.NewRequest( "GET", "https://data.goodmetrics.io/"+gmID+"/events/acquisition/referrers?"+params.Encode(), nil, ) request.Header.Set("Authorization", "Bearer "+apiKey)
response, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(request) defer response.Body.Close()
body, _ := io.ReadAll(response.Body) fmt.Println(string(body))}Overview endpoints
Section titled “Overview endpoints”| Endpoint | Description |
|---|---|
GET /{gmID}/events/acquisition/overview/referrers | Referrer overview. |
GET /{gmID}/events/acquisition/overview/utm-sources-mediums | UTM source/medium overview. |
GET /{gmID}/events/acquisition/overview/initial-referrers | Initial referrer overview. |
Table endpoints
Section titled “Table endpoints”| Endpoint | Alignment key |
|---|---|
GET /{gmID}/events/acquisition/referrers | referrer |
GET /{gmID}/events/acquisition/utm-sources-mediums | utmSourceMedium |
GET /{gmID}/events/acquisition/utm-campaigns | utmCampaign |
GET /{gmID}/events/acquisition/utm-contents | utmContent |
GET /{gmID}/events/acquisition/utm-terms | utmTerm |
GET /{gmID}/events/acquisition/initial-referrers | initialReferrer |
GET /{gmID}/events/acquisition/initial-utm-sources-mediums | initialUTMSourceMedium |
Acquisition table responses use the standard table response shape documented in Responses.
See Common Recipes for more request examples.