Is there ability to add other tracking services?

[ronpearl]

We have added this plugin to our Gatsby site and currently it seems to work great. However, other sites we have worked on use different types of tracking systems along with GTM. Is there, or could there be added, a way to include other scripts to the process besides the 3 you have currently? Maybe a way to add a custom or pre-defined script to the optional loader as well?

[andrezimpel]

Yea I was thinking about this actually. So it would be cool to define all services within the Gatsby confit and than also have a consent banner using this information. Any suggestions on how to accomplish this? Otherwise I’ll have a look at this on Monday.

…

Sent from my iPhone

On 25. Jun 2020, at 19:30, Ron Pearl ***@***.***> wrote:  We have added this plugin to our Gatsby site and currently it seems to work great. However, other sites we have worked on use different types of tracking systems along with GTM. Is there, or could there be added, a way to include other scripts to the process besides the 3 you have currently? Maybe a way to add a custom or pre-defined script to the optional loader as well? — You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub, or unsubscribe.

[ronpearl]

I am not sure. I see where you are loading the options and then updating on route change, maybe you could have the ability to load in a JSON file with a script URL and maybe some attributes for the script? So if a script URL is something like:

<script type="text/javascript" defer src="//someurl.com/t/12334325"></script>

Then we could load a JSON file with a format like:

{
    [
        {
            name: 'some url script',
            src: '//someurl.com/t/12334325',
            params: {
                defer: true,
                async: false,
                type: 'text/javascript'
            }
        }
    ]
}

This way it could be as simple as loading these scripts in dynamically as long as the user accepts. I'm sure there are other types of scripts that people would use, but this might just get it going!

[timoklok]

Hi, is there any progress on this? We would really like to see this feature in the plugin.

[andrezimpel]

Hi @ronpearl & @timoklok

I'm currently investigating this because I also have to use Hotjar for a client. I'm not quite sure what the best option would be because the plugin should not allow any tracking before the user accepts it. Also most tracking services actually use multiple script tags wich javascript not only one with a source.

[timoklok]

Although a generic solution is of course preferable, I'm personally also most interested in a Hotjar-implementation :-)

[nuttifox]

Is it possible to set some tracking scripts such as GA as core (required) so it tracks anomalously without the user clicking accept?

[andrezimpel]

@nuttifox actually I don't think this is not GDPR-compliant. You should never track somebody unless they gave their consent. Anomalously should fall under that category as far as I know. If you do not ask for the consent you could easily use another library or Gatsby plugin.

Ps.: If you really need to track users without giving their consent you could run your own analytics software (e.g. Matomo). This will then not require you to get the consent because the data stays within your organization and you are not sending them to a third party. At least that is what we found out thru research - I am no lawyer so I'd suggest to double confirm this before doing it.

See: https://github.com/react-ga/react-ga

[andrezimpel]

@timoklok, @ronpearl so the plugin should expose some configuration where you could add your own ssr and browser scripts? Would this make any sense? Just adding some source url will not work for all since some services will need ssr and you have to fire the track or init event in the browser.

[andrezimpel]

Quick update: I am rewriting the whole script. This should also allow to add custom services at some point!

[highnoondev]

Awesome! And also I just wanted to say you did a great job at the Gatsby Conf 2021.

[andrezimpel]

@highnoondev Thank you so so much!!!

[frodeste]

Can we contribute to the work? I would like to see Twitter, Linkedin and Dynamics Markerting additions as well.

[andrezimpel]

@frodeste sure thing!

[frodeste]

Great. I have a developer that I can involve in this, and following your v 2 strukture, I think supporting more services should be easy.

[andrezimpel]

Awesome! Yea my goals was to have a reusable approach how services are added. This could also be used for services that are defined in the gatsby-config.js.

[frodeste]

I have created a fork to my repo, and added the core parts for Dynamics Marketing. I have asked my team to complete the work.
I invited @andrezimpel to the repo so that you can track progress and comment as you see fit :)

[frodeste]

What else is need before v 2 is done @andrezimpel

[frodeste]

A brief update. I moved the fork to our company https://github.com/ProsessPilotene/gatsby-plugin-gdpr-cookies to allow my team have full access.. @andrezimpel you have access as well now.

The Dynamics 365 Marketing service is added as a feature branch https://github.com/ProsessPilotene/gatsby-plugin-gdpr-cookies/tree/feature/DynamicsMarketing

[andrezimpel]

@frodeste, the remaining goal for v2 is to clean up the GTM service.

I have a look at your fork, thanks! There is a lot of duplicate code right now, so another goal (for v2.1) would be have a a single implementation which is only reading data from config. This would also make it way easier to implement other services.

I am also working on a consent banner.

[frodeste]

I will talk to my team tomorrow and hopefully start to contribute to this project. Let us know how you are done on the architecture.

As to a consent banner. Take a look at https://dev.gartnerhallen.no/. This is a consent banner that we recently finished for a client (and we are still working on the rest of the site.)

[frodeste]

We will start our work in about one weeks time.

[yepes]

Hi guys. Any update on this? Let's say I need to add a trackjs script, is it possible right now?

[andrezimpel]

Hi @yepes it's not 100% done yet. But v2 of the plugin only needs some minor adjustments to support this. I keep you updated!

[chssch]

Thanks for the plugin., If it's of interest for anybody else, I've added LinkedIn support here:
https://github.com/chssch/gatsby-plugin-gdpr-cookies
A general configurable system would be of course nice. Looking forward.

[kapy9612]

Is there any possibility to add SharpSpring integration to this plugin?
https://www.gatsbyjs.com/plugins/gatsby-plugin-sharpspring/