Using Excel to get data from the Google Analytics API

You just need data from Google Analytics from time to time? And you don´t need to combine it with additional informations from other sources? And it is just once or twice a month?

In that case, you may not need to wait for my workshop to build a web controlling desktop., to have the informations fast. There are several excel-solutions out there (at least down to Excel 2003) you can use to get the data quick & dirty.

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