When you are creating a new instance of analytics.js by running
ga('create', 'UA-XXXXXXX-Y', {'cookieDomain': 'none'});
GA creates a unique client Id. I want to fetch this id and use it for my own purposes, but I can find only setter for this parameter but can't find any getter method to get it.
GA send it later in a parameter called &cid=123123.232323
Does anyone knows how do I get it?
Google does have some documentation on getting the client id.
Looks like this:
ga(function(tracker) {
var clientId = tracker.get('clientId');
});
I've used this before, too:
ga.getAll()[0].get('clientId');
EDIT: If you have more than one tracker on the page, it may be probable that at index 0 there is not the one you want, so an alternative function should be the following:
function() {
try {
var trackers = ga.getAll();
var i, len;
for (i = 0, len = trackers.length; i < len; i += 1) {
if (trackers[i].get('trackingId') === "ID-PROPERTY") {
return trackers[i].get('clientId');
}
}
} catch(e) {}
return 'false';
}
where ID-PROPERTY is the id of your Property (i.e. UA-XXXXX-XX).