title: Google Analytics V3 - How to create custom segments for API Service Accounts
body: <p>I need to access custom segments in Google Analytics via reporting the API. There is no trouble with it, except that custom segments are not shareable across multiple profiles/users set in Google Analytics, so a segment has to be created for each profile.</p>
  
  <p>And in the case of using a Service Account generated through Google API's Console, segments have to be created for that account &ndash; how do I log in to Google Analytics with a Service account having Client ID, email address and public key fingerprint to be able to set segments for it?</p>
  
  <p>It is not currently possible to create segments with the Google Analytics Management API.</p>
  
  <p><em>Edit:</em></p>
  
  <p>As of July 9, 2013 Google Analytics <a href="https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/reporting/core/v3/changelog" rel="nofollow">added access to custom dimension and metrics</a>. Now it is possible to query custom dimensions without the need to create additional segments, so the roots of my problem have disappeared.</p>