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@snowplow/browser-plugin-ad-tracking
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Browser Plugin to be used with @snowplow/browser-tracker
.
Adds advertising based events to your Snowplow tracking.
Part of the Snowplow JavaScript Tracker monorepo.
Build with Node.js (14 or 16) and Rush.
npm install -g @microsoft/rush
git clone https://github.com/snowplow/snowplow-javascript-tracker.git
rush update
With npm:
npm install @snowplow/browser-plugin-ad-tracking
Initialize your tracker with the AdTrackingPlugin:
import { newTracker } from '@snowplow/browser-tracker';
import { AdTrackingPlugin } from '@snowplow/browser-plugin-ad-tracking';
newTracker('sp1', '{{collector}}', { plugins: [ AdTrackingPlugin() ] }); // Also stores reference at module level
Then use the trackX
functions from this package to track to all trackers which have been initialized with this plugin:
import { trackAdClick } from '@snowplow/browser-plugin-ad-tracking';
trackAdClick({
targetUrl: 'http://www.example.com',
clickId: '12243253',
costModel: 'cpm',
cost: 2.5,
bannerId: '23',
zoneId: '7',
impressionId: '67965967893',
advertiserId: '201',
campaignId: '12',
});
Licensed and distributed under the BSD 3-Clause License (An OSI Approved License).
Copyright (c) 2022 Snowplow Analytics Ltd, 2010 Anthon Pang.
All rights reserved.
FAQs
Ad tracking for Snowplow
The npm package @snowplow/browser-plugin-ad-tracking receives a total of 6,551 weekly downloads. As such, @snowplow/browser-plugin-ad-tracking popularity was classified as popular.
We found that @snowplow/browser-plugin-ad-tracking demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 0 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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