The URL buildup of Google Analytics pages

For a recent project, I wanted to link to external Google Analytics reports. The links of Google Analytics dashboard pages are a bit.. complicated though. Have a look at the example below:

https://analytics.google.com/analytics/web/?authuser=1#/report/content-pages/a1712424244w23881211274p2235589003/_u.date00=20150101&_u.date01=20220822&explorer-table.filter=~2Fcategory~2Fpost-name~2F&explorer-table.plotKeys=[]/

I reached out to Google support, but they weren’t able to assist me with this. So I started having a better look, and after some google searches I got a bit further. The URL is build up like this:

https://analytics.google.com/analytics/web/#/report/content-pages/a{accountID}w{internalWebPropertyID}p{profileID}/_u.date00=YYYYMMDD&_u.date01=YYYMMDD&explorer-table.filter=ENCODED_URL_TO_PAGE&explorer-table.plotKeys=[]/

That makes more sense, right? That encoded URL though.. Forward slashes are usually converted to %2F, but in this case it’s ~2F. I guess we’ll just replace the percentage with a tilde.