Reply To: Extract pure JSON data using Google Analytics Data API v1 runReport

[Matthew]

Absolutely, let me clarify it for you.

What you’re seeing with your $response object is an instance of GoogleAnalyticsDataV1betaRunReportResponse, which is a kind of protobuf message. This comes from Google’s approach in many APIs where they use protocol buffers for their data format.

Because of this, you can use a method serializeToJsonString() that’s available for your response object. This method is going to generate a JSON string representation of your object.

So, just write an echo statement echo $response->serializeToJsonString(); and this will print out your JSON string directly.