Python Google Analytics full server-side integration flow

ga.py

import httplib2

from apiclient.discovery import build
from oauth2client.client import SignedJwtAssertionCredentials


def build_google_analytics_service():
    http = httplib2.Http()
    credentials = SignedJwtAssertionCredentials(
        GOOGLE_CLIENT_EMAIL,
        GOOGLE_PRIVATE_KEY,
        'https://www.googleapis.com/auth/analytics.readonly')
    http = credentials.authorize(http)
    return build('analytics', 'v3', http=http)

def get_first_profile_id(service):
    accounts = service.management().accounts().list().execute()
    firstAccountId = accounts.get('items')[0].get('id')
    webproperties = service.management().webproperties().list(
        accountId=firstAccountId).execute()
    firstWebpropertyId = webproperties.get('items')[0].get('id')
    profiles = service.management().profiles().list(
        accountId=firstAccountId, webPropertyId=firstWebpropertyId).execute()
    return profiles.get('items')[0].get('id')

if __name__ == '__main__':
    service = build_google_analytics_service()
    profile = get_first_profile_id(service)
    # ...