Google Analytics CLI for AI Agents

CLIs are eating MCPs. The industry is converging on the very same idea. MCPs for all their merit can be token hungry, slow, and unreliable for complex tool chaining. However, coding agents have become incredibly good at working with CLIs, and in fact they are far more comfortable working with CLI tools than MCP. With Composio's Universal CLI, your coding agents can talk to over 1000+ SaaS applications. With Google Analytics, agents can show all google analytics accounts i manage, get detailed info for a specific account, list audiences for your ga4 property, and more — all without worrying about authentication. This guide walks you through Composio Universal CLI and explains how you can connect it with coding agents like Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, etc, for end-to-end Google Analytics automation.

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Introduction

CLIs are eating MCPs. The industry is converging on the very same idea. MCPs for all their merit can be token hungry, slow, and unreliable for complex tool chaining. However, coding agents have become incredibly good at working with CLIs, and in fact they are far more comfortable working with CLI tools than MCP.

With Composio's Universal CLI, your coding agents can talk to over 1000+ SaaS applications. With Google Analytics, agents can show all google analytics accounts i manage, get detailed info for a specific account, list audiences for your ga4 property, and more — all without worrying about authentication.

This guide walks you through Composio Universal CLI and explains how you can connect it with coding agents like Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, etc, for end-to-end Google Analytics automation.

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What is Universal CLI and why use it?

The idea behind building the universal CLI is to give agents a single command interface to interact with all your external applications. Here's what you'll get with it:

  • Agent-friendly: Coding agents like Claude Code, Codex, and OpenCode can use CLI tools natively — no MCP setup required.
  • Authentication handled: Connect once via OAuth or API Key, and all CLI commands work with your credentials automatically.
  • Tool discovery: Search, inspect, and execute 20,000+ tools across 1000+ apps from one interface.
  • Trigger support: Use triggers to listen for events across your apps, powered by real-time webhooks or polling under the hood.
  • Type generation: Generate typed schemas for autocomplete and type safety in your projects.

Prerequisites

Install the Composio CLI, authenticate, and initialize your project:

bash
# Install the Composio CLI
curl -fsSL https://composio.dev/install | bash

# Authenticate with Composio
composio login

During login you'll be redirected to sign in page, finish the complete flow and you're all set.

Composio CLI authentication flow

Connecting Google Analytics to Coding Agents via Universal CLI

Once it is installed, it's essentially done. Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, OpenClaw, or any other agent will be able to access the CLI. A few steps to give agents access to your apps.

  1. Launch your Coding Agent — Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, anything you prefer.
  2. Prompt it to "Authenticate with Google Analytics"
  3. Complete the authentication and authorization flow and your Google Analytics integration is all set.
  4. Start asking anything you want.

Universal CLI Commands for Google Analytics

You can also manually execute CLI commands to interact with your Google Analytics.

Connect your Google Analytics account

Link your Google Analytics account and verify the connection:

bash
# Connect your Google Analytics account (opens OAuth flow)
composio connected-accounts link google_analytics

# Verify the connection
composio connected-accounts list --toolkits google_analytics

Discover Google Analytics tools

Search and inspect available Google Analytics tools:

bash
# List all available Google Analytics tools
composio tools list --toolkit google_analytics

# Search for Google Analytics tools by action
composio tools search "google analytics"

# Inspect a tool's input schema
composio tools info GOOGLE_ANALYTICS_CREATE_EXPANDED_DATA_SET

Common Google Analytics Actions

Create Expanded Data SetTool to create an expanded data set for a property

bash
composio tools execute GOOGLE_ANALYTICS_CREATE_EXPANDED_DATA_SET \
  --parent "properties/123456789" \
  --expandedDataSet "<object>"

Get AccountTool to retrieve a single account by its resource name

bash
composio tools execute GOOGLE_ANALYTICS_GET_ACCOUNT \
  --name "accounts/100"

List AccountsTool to list all accounts accessible by the caller

bash
composio tools execute GOOGLE_ANALYTICS_LIST_ACCOUNTS \
  --pageSize "100" \
  --pageToken "token123" \
  --showDeleted "<boolean>"

List AudiencesTool to list all audiences on a property

bash
composio tools execute GOOGLE_ANALYTICS_LIST_AUDIENCES \
  --parent "properties/1234"

Generate Type Definitions

Generate typed schemas for Google Analytics tools to get autocomplete and type safety in your project:

bash
# Auto-detect language
composio generate --toolkits google_analytics

# TypeScript
composio ts generate --toolkits google_analytics

# Python
composio py generate --toolkits google_analytics

Tips & Tricks

  • Always inspect a tool's input schema before executing: composio tools info <TOOL_NAME>
  • Pipe output with jq for better readability: composio tools execute TOOL_NAME -d '{}' | jq
  • Set COMPOSIO_API_KEY as an environment variable for CI/CD pipelines
  • Use composio dev logs tools to inspect execution logs and debug issues

Next Steps

  • Try asking your coding agent to perform various Google Analytics operations
  • Explore cross-app workflows by connecting more toolkits
  • Set up triggers for real-time automation
  • Use composio generate for typed schemas in your projects
TOOLS

Supported Tools

Every Google Analytics action and event your agent gets out of the box.

Archive Custom Dimension

Tool to archive a CustomDimension on a property.

Batch Run Pivot Reports

Tool to return multiple pivot reports in a batch for a GA4 property.

Batch Run Reports

Tool to return multiple analytics data reports in a batch.

Check Compatibility

Tool to list dimensions and metrics compatible with a GA4 report request.

Create Audience Export

Tool to create an audience export for Google Analytics.

Create Audience List

Tool to create an audience list for later retrieval by initiating a long-running asynchronous request.

Create Custom Dimension

Tool to create a CustomDimension for a Google Analytics property.

Create Custom Metric

Tool to create a custom metric in Google Analytics.

Create Expanded Data Set

Tool to create an expanded data set for a property.

Create Recurring Audience List

Tool to create a recurring audience list that automatically generates new audience lists daily based on the latest data.

Create Report Task

Tool to create a report task as a long-running asynchronous request for customized Google Analytics event data reports.

Create Rollup Property

Tool to create a roll-up property.

Get Account

Tool to retrieve a single Account by its resource name.

Get Attribution Settings

Tool to retrieve attribution configuration for a Google Analytics property.

Get Audience

Tool to retrieve a single Audience configuration from a Google Analytics property.

Get Audience Export

Tool to get configuration metadata about a specific audience export.

Get Audience List

Tool to get configuration metadata about a specific audience list.

Get Custom Dimension

Tool to retrieve a single CustomDimension by its resource name.

Get Data Retention Settings

Tool to retrieve data retention configuration for a Google Analytics property.

Get Data Sharing Settings

Tool to retrieve data sharing configuration for a Google Analytics account.

Get Google Signals Settings

Tool to retrieve Google Signals configuration settings for a GA4 property.

Get Key Event

Tool to retrieve a Key Event.

Get Metadata

Tool to get metadata for dimensions, metrics, and comparisons for a GA4 property.

Get Property

Tool to retrieve a single GA4 Property by its resource name.

Get Property Quotas Snapshot

Tool to retrieve all property quotas organized by category (corePropertyQuota, funnelPropertyQuota, realtimePropertyQuota) for a given GA4 property.

Get Recurring Audience List

Tool to get configuration metadata about a specific recurring audience list.

Get Report Task

Tool to get report metadata about a specific report task.

List Account Summaries

Tool to retrieve summaries of all Google Analytics accounts accessible by the caller.

List Accounts (v1beta)

Tool to list all Google Analytics accounts accessible by the caller using v1beta API.

List AdSense Links

Tool to list all AdSenseLinks on a property.

List Audience Exports

Tool to list all audience exports for a property.

List Audience Lists

Tool to list all audience lists for a specified property to help find and reuse existing lists.

List Audiences

Tool to list Audiences on a property.

List BigQuery Links

Tool to list BigQuery Links on a property.

List Calculated Metrics

List Calculated Metrics

List Channel Groups

Tool to list ChannelGroups on a property.

List Conversion Events

Tool to list conversion events on a property.

List Custom Dimensions

List Custom Dimensions

List Custom Metrics

Tool to list CustomMetrics on a property.

List DataStreams

Tool to list DataStreams on a property.

List Display & Video 360 Advertiser Links

Tool to list Display & Video 360 advertiser links on a property.

List DisplayVideo360 Advertiser Link Proposals

Tool to list DisplayVideo360AdvertiserLinkProposals on a property.

List Event Create Rules

Tool to list EventCreateRules configured on a web data stream.

List Expanded Data Sets

Tool to list ExpandedDataSets on a property.

List Firebase Links

Tool to list FirebaseLinks on a property.

List Google Ads Links

Tool to list GoogleAdsLinks on a property.

List Key Events

Tool to list Key Events.

List Measurement Protocol Secrets

Tool to list MeasurementProtocolSecrets under a data stream.

List Property

Tool to list GA4 properties based on filter criteria.

List Recurring Audience Lists

Tool to list all recurring audience lists for a GA4 property.

List Reporting Data Annotations

Tool to list all Reporting Data Annotations for a specific property.

List Report Tasks

Tool to list all report tasks for a Google Analytics property.

List Search Ads 360 Links

Tool to list all SearchAds360Links on a property.

List SKAdNetwork Conversion Value Schemas

Tool to list SKAdNetworkConversionValueSchema configurations for an iOS data stream.

List Subproperty Event Filters

Tool to list all subproperty event filters on a property.

List Subproperty Sync Configs

Tool to list SubpropertySyncConfig resources for managing subproperty synchronization configurations.

Provision Account Ticket

Tool to request a ticket for creating a Google Analytics account.

Query Audience Export

Tool to query a completed audience export.

Query Audience List

Tool to query an audience list.

Query Report Task

Tool to retrieve a report task's content.

Run Funnel Report

Tool to run a GA4 funnel report.

Run Pivot Report

Tool to run a customized pivot report of Google Analytics event data.

Run Realtime Report

Tool to run a customized realtime report of Google Analytics event data.

Run Report

Tool to run a customized GA4 data report.

Send Events

Tool to send event data to Google Analytics 4 using the Measurement Protocol.

Update Property

Tool to update an existing GA4 Property.

Validate Events

Tool to validate Measurement Protocol events before sending them to production.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

The Composio Universal CLI is a single command-line interface that lets coding agents and developers interact with 1000+ SaaS applications. It handles authentication, tool discovery, action execution, and trigger setup — all from the terminal, without needing to configure MCP servers.

Any coding agent that can run shell commands works with the Composio CLI — including Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, OpenClaw, and others. Once the CLI is installed, agents automatically discover and use the composio commands to interact with Google Analytics and other connected apps.

MCP servers require configuration and can be token-heavy for complex workflows. The CLI gives agents a direct, lightweight interface — no server setup needed. Agents simply call composio commands like any other shell tool. It's faster to set up, more reliable for multi-step tool chaining, and works natively with how coding agents already operate.

All sensitive data such as tokens, keys, and configuration is fully encrypted at rest and in transit. Composio is SOC 2 Type 2 compliant and follows strict security practices so your Google Analytics data and credentials are handled as safely as possible. You can also bring your own OAuth credentials for full control.

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