Google Business PerformanceAPI has aNEWAPI method that allows fetching multiple `DailyMetrics` in a single API request. Review thedeprecation scheduleand instructions to migrate over from v4 reportInsights API method to Google Business Profile Performance API.
The response from the API returns a body that contains aMediaItemDataRef:
{
"resourceName": "GoogleProvidedValue",
}
To upload the bytes, use theresourceNamereturned by the call made in the
previous step. The following is an example where the media to be uploaded is a photo:
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