If a customer lands on any page of the Shopify site (not Plus), with a referral parameter in GET (?ref=something), how can this value be carried over to the checkout and order confirmation pages, where the domain is different?
One idea I had was to set a cookie on our domain, and then modify URL one navigates to upon clicking Checkout to include the values of the cookies, but I am unsure if this is the cleanest way, and where the best place to modify the URL would be.
I see that _ga parameter appears to be included automatically, in checkout URL. How can this be done for custom GET parameters?
One is the tricky way for doing this by modifying the checkout URL before submitting.
For doing this on your cart.liquid file find the form with action="/cart" and add attribute:
onsubmit="update_action(this)"
And add the javascript code at the bottom of your theme.liquid file :
<script type="text/javascript">
function update_action(form){
var new_action;
var some_value = "something";
var form_action = form.action;
if( (form_action.indexOf("?") >= 0) ) {
if(form_action.indexOf("ref")>=0) {
new_action = form_action.replaceAt(form_action.indexOf("ref"),"ref="+some_value);
}else{
new_action = form_action+"&ref="+some_value;
}
}else{
new_action = form_action+"?ref="+some_value;
}
$(form).attr("action",new_action);
}
</script>
Hope this will solve your problem.
Note that the ref and landing page are automatically stored by Shopify, meaning without you doing anything, you get those values in the order placed by the customer. You do not have manually manipulate them as per this thread.
Why do you need the value on checkout (you can do nothing with it anyway) and why on the order confirmation where again, it serves no purpose for the customer?
I have built a site that pulls the comments from Trello to show it on my site using this code:
var resource = "cards/" + card.id + "/actions";
Trello.get(resource, function(comments) {
if(!$.isEmptyObject(comments)){
var commentStr="<div class='comments_c'>";
$.each(comments, function(c, cda){
//console.log(cda.data.text);
commentStr += "<p>"+cda.data.text+"</p>";
//addComments(cda.data.text);
});
commentStr += "</div>";
}
console.log(commentStr);
Now it works fine to pull the comments but it doesn't show the activity like "Sarah Hastings added this card to ". The api documentation doesn't talk about it and I am at a dead-end. We need it for reporting and looking for a way to get the activities (copied, moved, added) from Trello to our site. Any help is appreciated.
By default, the cards/[idCard]/actions endpoint returns actions filtered to commentCard,updateCard:idList. If you want to get actions of additional types from that endpoint you will want to include the filter parameter with the list of action types that you want returned. You can see the full list of options documented here: https://developers.trello.com/advanced-reference/card#get-1-cards-card-id-or-shortlink-actions by clicking Show next to Arguments for that call.
For example actions of adding cards to a board would be of type: moveCardToBoard so you would want to add that to the filter parameter.
I am using google image search API. Till yesterday it was working, but today morning it says "This API is no longer available"
Is it officially closed, Or any error at my side
Request
https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/search/images?v=1.0&rsz=8&q=cute+kittens
Response
{"responseData": null, "responseDetails": "This API is no longer available.", "responseStatus": 403}
The answer I found was using Google's Custom Search Engine (CSE) API. Note that this is limited to 100 free requests per day.
Creating cx and modifying it to search for images
Create custom search engine at https://cse.google.com/cse/create/new based on your search criteria.
Choose sites to search (leave this blank if you want to search the entire web, otherwise you can enter a site to search in one particular site)
Enter a name and a language for your search engine.
Click "create." You can now find cx in your browser URL.
Under "Modify your search engine," click the "Control Panel" button. In the "edit" section you will find an "Image Search" label with an ON/OFF button, change it to ON. Click "update" to save your changes.
Conducting a search with the API
The API endpoint url is https://www.googleapis.com/customsearch/v1
The following JSON parameters are used for this API:
q: specifies search text
num: specifies number of results. Requires an integer value between 1 and 10 (inclusive)
start: the "offset" for the results, which result the search should start at. Requires an integer value between 1 and 101.
imgSize: the size of the image. I used "medium"
searchType: must be set to "image"
filetype: specifies the file type for the image. I used `"jpg", but you can leave this out if file extension doesn't matter to you.
key: an API key, obtained from https://console.developers.google.com/
cx: the custom search engine ID from the previous section
Simply make a GET request by passing above parameters as JSON to the API endpoint (also listed above).
Note: If you set a list of referrers in the search engine settings, visiting the URL via your browser will likely not work. You will need to make an AJAX call (or the equivalent from another language) from a server specified in this list. It will work for only the referrers which were specified in the configuration settings.
Reference:
https://developers.google.com/custom-search/json-api/v1/reference/cse/list
Now You can search images with Custom image search API.
You can do this with two steps:
Get CUSTOM_SEARCH_ID
Go to - https://cse.google.ru/cse/all
Here you must create new Search Engine. Do this and enable Image Search at there.
Screen(i am Russian... sorry)
then get this search engine ID. To do this press at Get Code button:
And there find line with cx = "here will be your CUSTOM_SEARCH_ID":
Ok. It's done, now second step:
Get SERVER_KEY
Go to google Console - https://console.developers.google.com/project
Press to Create project button, enter the name and other required information.
Pick this project and go to Enable Apis
Now find Custom Search Engine.
And Enable it.
Now we must go to Credentials and create new Server Key:
Ok. Now we can use Image Search.
Query:
https://www.googleapis.com/customsearch/v1?key=SERVER_KEY&cx=CUSTOM_SEARCH_ID&q=flower&searchType=image&fileType=jpg&imgSize=xlarge&alt=json
Replace the SERVER_KEY and CUSTOM_SEARCH_ID and call this request.
Limit: for free you can search only 100 images per day.
If this is just for your own purposes (not for production) and you're not planning to abuse Google Image Search, you can simply extract first image URL from Google search results using JSOUP.
For example:
Code to retrieve image URL of the first thumbnail:
public static String FindImage(String question, String ua) {
String finRes = "";
try {
String googleUrl = "https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=" + question.replace(",", "");
Document doc1 = Jsoup.connect(googleUrl).userAgent(ua).timeout(10 * 1000).get();
Element media = doc1.select("[data-src]").first();
String finUrl = media.attr("abs:data-src");
finRes= "<img src=\"" + finUrl.replace(""", "") + "\" border=1/>";
} catch (Exception e) {
System.out.println(e);
}
return finRes;
}
Guide:
question - image search term
ua - user agent of the browser
After I read several responses I compiled a response with images:
Access the website: https://developers.google.com/custom-search/v1/introduction, on the page you will find this part, so click in the button Get a Key:
Create or select a project, and then NEXT:
Copy the API KEY:
Access the website to create your CX: https://cse.google.com/cse/create/new, write some random domain like “www.anypage.com”, (after we will delete), select a language, and define some name for your search engine. Click on the Button CREATE.
Will see this page, then click in Control Panel:
Copy the Search engine ID for later (this is your CX). After you can set to search in all websites (active Search the entire web, select on the random website www.anypage.com then click on the button Delete) and you can active Image search. So will see like this:
And Using REST you can get the results, using this example code (searching for flower):
<html lang="pt">
<head>
<title>JSON Custom Search API Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<div id="content"></div>
<script>
function hndlr(response) {
console.log(response);
for (var i = 0; i < response.items.length; i++) {
var item = response.items[i];
// in production code, item.htmlTitle should have the HTML entities escaped.
document.getElementById("content").innerHTML += "<br>" + item.htmlTitle;
}
}
</script>
<script src="https://www.googleapis.com/customsearch/v1?key=API_KEY&cx=SEARCH_ENGINE_KEY&q=flower&searchType=image&callback=hndlr"></script>
</body>
</html>
The base code is found here: https://developers.google.com/custom-search/v1/using_rest
After setting your API_KEY (key) and your SEARCH ENGINE KEY (cx), the result will see like this:
Thanks to #Vijay Shegokar, #aftamat4ik and #Alladinian
This is the full URL template to be used
We can eliminate unnecessary parameters.
https://www.googleapis.com/customsearch/v1?q={searchTerms}&num={count?}&start={startIndex?}&lr={language?}&safe={safe?}&cx={cx?}&cref={cref?}&sort={sort?}&filter={filter?}&gl={gl?}&cr={cr?}&googlehost={googleHost?}&c2coff={disableCnTwTranslation?}&hq={hq?}&hl={hl?}&siteSearch={siteSearch?}&siteSearchFilter={siteSearchFilter?}&exactTerms={exactTerms?}&excludeTerms={excludeTerms?}&linkSite={linkSite?}&orTerms={orTerms?}&relatedSite={relatedSite?}&dateRestrict={dateRestrict?}&lowRange={lowRange?}&highRange={highRange?}&searchType={searchType}&fileType={fileType?}&rights={rights?}&imgSize={imgSize?}&imgType={imgType?}&imgColorType={imgColorType?}&imgDominantColor={imgDominantColor?}&alt=json
I am using
https://www.googleapis.com/customsearch/v1?key=ap_key&cx=cx&q=hello&searchType=image&imgSize=xlarge&alt=json&num=10&start=1
Change the API url to
Google Custom Image search
Provide the same parameters along with with API KEY and CX.
More Info and Explorer
The Yahoo Boss API is a reasonable substitute, although it's not free and the results are not quite as good.
UPDATE: YAHOO BOSS JSON Search API will discontinue on March 31, 2016
SerpAPI enables to search through Google Images and returns a clean json. it integrates with most of the programming languages: python, php, java, golang, nodejs...
https://serpapi.com/images-results
Google limit the number of search per day.
but this service provides unlimited searches...
looks like we need to implement google custom search API
https://developers.google.com/custom-search/
says so on top of the page you provided yourself
I want to use the site catalyst api to get the most popular page (page that has maximum pageviews) under a given site-section? Let me explain better with an example.
My website has multiple channels (News/Journals/Books/Events etc). Each of the channel has many pages under it. I want a api call that will get the most popular news page or Journals page or Books page etc.
I am passing data to sitecatalyst like this..
s.pageName = o_title;
s.channel = o_structure
s.prop1 = o_iden
where o_title has the page title of a newspage or a journalpage etc..
o_structure refers to either "News" or "Journals" or "Books" etc.
Currently I am able to only get the most popular page on the entire site. I would appreciate if someone can help me find the most popular page per section.
Thanks,
Rag
I assume that you already know the basics of using the Omniture API, how to queue up a report and look for status and get it etc... here is a basic REST data string to get site sections (s.channel) broken down by page names (s.pageName) with page views as metric. You will use the Report.QueueRanked API method, and you need to specify the rsid(s) to get the data from and the date ranges.
{
"reportDescription": {
"reportSuiteID":"RSID",
"dateFrom":"YYYY-MM-DD",
"dateTo":"YYYY-MM-DD",
"metrics":[
{
"id":"pageViews"
}
],
"sortBy":"pageViews",
"elements":[
{
"id":"siteSection"
},
{
"id":"page"
}
]
}
}
I want to fetch all of a user's Google Plus activity. I can get all of a user's posts but I can't find any way to fetch everything a user have +1ed or commented on. Can I?
There is an open feature request for access to a users +1'd URLs. I did not find a feature request for listing comments from a user but you can request it: http://bugpl.us/new.
use this php code and u get particular activity comment's list
$optParams = array('maxResults' => 100);
$comments = $plus->comments->listComments(activityid,$optParams);
foreach($comments['items'] as $comment) {
print "{$comment['id']}, {$comment['object']['content']}\n";
}