I am looking for a web service that will allow me to upload a PDF and can track the number of times it is downloaded regardless of the source. I am aware of Google Analytics event tracking on my site but the issue here is that I need to give the file path to a number of partner sites and would like a centralized place to view total downloads among all partners. A breakdown of downloads by source would be awesome but not necessary. I can't rely on getting numbers from all of the partners as some may not even have GA set up at all.
Does something like this exist? Free is nice but would be willing to pay for an account if necessary.
Thanks.
Ended up using bit.ly to to shorten the path to the PDF hosted on my server. Gave the shortened url to the partners. Bit.ly provides good click stats by simply adding a "+" to end of the shortened url so we could see results.
Have you tried Ge.tt ?
I believe it shows number of times your files has been downloaded.
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I am using Osclass open source script for my classified ads website.
Since OSClass.org is down and OSClass market is closed my website site oc-admin speed is very slow, sometime oc-admin takes more than 40 seconds to login. Similarly oc-admin dashboard loads very slow.
What are causes of these issues and what should I do to get rid of these?
Github url is
https://github.com/osclass/Osclass
For security concerns I cannot put url of my website here.
I think this link solve your problem.
https://www.valueweb.gr/forums/osclass/for-osclass-3-8-remove-all-your-website-dependencies-from-osclass-org/
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Stripped/nulled all Market connections and admin dashboard visuals from Osclass 3.8.
Here are the changed files only to remove Market connections. The structure is kept for your convenience. You just upload the two folders to replace 12 files.
If you prefer to do it manually here is the documentation:
https://docs.osclasscommunity.com/removing-market/introduction
Attachment: Osclass_380_Stripped_from_Market.zip
so I have a bit of a dilemma here. I am pretty familiar with how GA tracks PDF either via adding tagging to each PDF, or by using Tag Manager...
I have two separate sites, with two unique UA-xxxxx-1 IDs...
One site, I can query back about 2 years, and see ".pdf" files as pageviews...
On another site, I try to query the same file extension and there is nothing, and i know for a fact PDFs are being downloaded via link clicks.
Why would one site show this and another is not?
They both utilize the same Universal script, I have not installed tag manager on these sites, but one shows PDFs and one does not?
Could there be something in the Admin section of the two sites in GA I need to look at?
Could something have been configured in one site, and not the other?
Am a bit confused by this...
Here's what I'm trying to do:
I want to distribute my Vcard (.vcf) file by hosting it on my personal website (this part is a rigid requirement). People will access it from a QR code on my business card, however, no links to the file will exist on my webpages.
I want to make the file publicly accessible, while ensuring that it doesn't get scraped by a bot. It will be contained in a folder disallowed from "normal" bots via robots.txt, and I will disable directory listings in Apache.
I do NOT want to introduce additional steps such as captchas or authentication.
My thought is something like how google drive does public sharing - a 44-character random string that represents the file. So....
http://mywebsite.com/private/34599771831821330576336168849178778047996955.vcf
My questions are:
1) How safe is this? Presumably, as long as I disable directory listing on Apache, the only way a bot can stumble on the file without a direct link is via random guessing. Do bots really bother trying to do just a thing?
2) If it's safe, presumably string length is key. Just how long does the string need to be to make it "safe"?
3) Is there a better way to do this than filename obscurity?
Yes, there is a better way. It is called recaptcha.
The idea should be to present the user with the captcha and if he/she/it solves it correctly, then you proceed to the download.
https://www.google.com/recaptcha/intro/index.html
I have created a Google site for my class, I am trying to place a file uploader on my page. I have found an exemplar codes on the following sites
https://sites.google.com/site/appsscripttutorial/user-interface/upload-doc
https://sites.google.com/site/toolsclass/apps-scripts/file-uploader (deposits into a specific folder but doesn't seem to work)
but I am a complete novice when it comes to app scripts etc so am in desperate need of a real basic step-by-step set of instructions to get the uploader on my site. If it can also be adapted so that the uploaded files are deposited within a specific folder within my Google Drive then it would be greatly appreciated.
There are plenty of code examples of forms with file upload, this one for example shows a full featured form. Try also a search on this forum in the Google-apps-script tag
Try to include the https://driveuploader.com/ via the iFrame embedding.
This is definitely the easiest way how to receive the files from your web visitors into your Google Drive.
I have recently placed an ad in a weekly publication that sends out a PDF file. My ad is directly linked so that the reader can click on it and go to my website. The PDF file is hosted on a different server, but is, in fact, a PDF file that has to be downloaded and viewed on that site, not emailed or shared that way. I have Google Analytics and a couple other stats tracking programs installed and I can't see the referring URL from this other site at all, in anything. Is there something I can ask the designer of the PDF file to include in her links to make them trackable? Or is this simply not possible?
Use Google Analytics Campaign Tagging.
This tool will help set it up. You'll want to classify the variables such that the source and the medium are set, at minimum.
http://www.google.com/support/analytics/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=55578
So, for example, if your URL is http://example.com, you could set the parameters as such:
utm_source: BlahNews
utm_medium: newsletter
utm_campaign: july10issue
Your resulting URL would be http://example.com/?utm_source=BlahNews&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=july10issue
Google Analytics would track these hits under that Campaign, Source and medium.
If the URL is displayed raw, and want to avoid 'displaying' an ugly URL, you could setup an internal redirect to that URL, and it looks like you're using WordPress, there are a few free plugins that manage redirects like this (I happen to like 'Redirection')
So, you could tell the plugin to redirect
http://example.com/blahnews TO http://example.com/?utm_source=BlahNews&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=july10issue
Can you ask them to put some token in the query string of the URL to the site?