main.py

# Copyright 2016 Google Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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import logging
import os

from flask import Flask
import requests
import requests_toolbelt.adapters.appengine

# Use the App Engine Requests adapter. This makes sure that Requests uses
# URLFetch.
requests_toolbelt.adapters.appengine.monkeypatch()

app = Flask(__name__)

# Environment variables are defined in app.yaml.
GA_TRACKING_ID = os.environ['GA_TRACKING_ID']


# [START track_event]
def track_event(category, action, label=None, value=0):
    data = {
        'v': '1',  # API Version.
        'tid': GA_TRACKING_ID,  # Tracking ID / Property ID.
        # Anonymous Client Identifier. Ideally, this should be a UUID that
        # is associated with particular user, device, or browser instance.
        'cid': '555',
        't': 'event',  # Event hit type.
        'ec': category,  # Event category.
        'ea': action,  # Event action.
        'el': label,  # Event label.
        'ev': value,  # Event value, must be an integer
    }

    response = requests.post(
        'http://www.google-analytics.com/collect', data=data)

    # If the request fails, this will raise a RequestException. Depending
    # on your application's needs, this may be a non-error and can be caught
    # by the caller.
    response.raise_for_status()


@app.route('/')
def track_example():
    track_event(
        category='Example',
        action='test action')
    return 'Event tracked.'
# [END track_event]


@app.errorhandler(500)
def server_error(e):
    logging.exception('An error occurred during a request.')
    return """
    An internal error occurred: <pre>{}</pre>
    See logs for full stacktrace.
    """.format(e), 500


if __name__ == '__main__':
    # This is used when running locally. Gunicorn is used to run the
    # application on Google App Engine. See entrypoint in app.yaml.
    app.run(host='127.0.0.1', port=8080, debug=True)