Reading through the documentation for Google fit it seams that you have to poll for workouts regularly to get new workouts. According to the documentation to get a workout you have to list it with a get call source. Is there another way than polling? It would be wonderful to get some ping every time a workout is done instead.
I ended up polling it, as it looks like that is the only way to do it unfortunately.
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I am using such MySQL request for measuring views count
UPDATE content SET views=views+1 WHERE id='$id'
For example if I want to check how many times some single page has been viewed I've just putting it on top of page code. Unfortunately I always receiving about 5-10x bigger amount than results in Google Analytics.
If I am correct one refresh should increase value in my data base about +1. Doesn't "Views" in Google Analytics works in the same way?
If e.g. Google Analytics provides me that single page has been viewed 100x times and my data base says it was e.g. 450x times. How such simple request could generate additional 350 views? And I don't mean visits or unique visits. Just regular views.
Is it possible that Google Analytics interprates such data in a little bit different way and my data base result is correct?
There are quite a few reasons why this could be occurring. The most usual culprit is bots and spiders. As soon as you use a third-party API like Google Analytics, or Facebook's API, you'll get their bots making hits to your page.
You need to examine each request in more detail. The user agent is a good place to start, although I do recommend researching this area further - discriminating between human and bot traffic is quite a deep subject.
In Google Analytics the data is provided by the user, for example:
A user view a page on your domain, now he is on charge to comunicate to Google The PageView, if something fails in the road, the data will no be included in the reports.
In the other case , the SQL sistem that you have is a Log Based Analytic, the data is collected by your system reducing the data collection failures.
If we see this in that way, that means taht some data can be missed with the slow conections and users that dont execute javascriopt (Adbloquers or bots), or the HTML page is not properly printed***.
Now 5x times more it's a huge discrepancy, in my experiences must be near 8-25% of discrepancy. (tested over transaction level, maybe in Pageview can be more)
What i recomend you is:
Save device, browser information, the ip, and some other metadata information that can be useful and dont forget the timesatmp, so in that way yo can isolate the problem, maybe are robots or users with adblock, in the worst case you code is not properly implemented ( located in the Footer as example)
*** i added this because one time i had a huge discrepancy, but it was a server error, the HTML code was not properly printed showing to the user a empty HTTP. The MYSQL was no so fast to save the information and process the HTML code. I notice it when the effort test (via Screaming frog) showed a lot of 500x errors. ( Wordpress Blog with no cache)
What is the term for a webhook that makes another set of webhooks?
A recent kludge (Unbounce, Zapier, Twilio) only allows me one webhook (i.e. custom one from Zapier)
https://zapier.com/zapbook/twilio/unbounce/
Eventually, however, I will need to generate multiple actions on different (customzed) platforms, so I was hoping to have a hook that goes to one place and then from there, vector off hooks to my other beta site (including Zapier).
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
I note your question was about unbounce, but included Zapier. I'm assuming from this that you were looking to use Zapier as the "one place" (i.e in the middle)"
Now I don't know Zapier, but came across your question looking along the same lines. The terms I'm familiar with on this are "one-to-many", "fan-out" or "publish/subscribe" communication styles - but aware that these may be a bit old school in Web 2.0 world.
In my search I came across a Zapier Support post on Multiple Zaps.
In summary, looks like you may be able to achive this using a "Zapier Delay Trigger zap"
The possible downside (depending on delivery time requirements) is that the delivery of onward webhooks would be complete "...within 5-15 minutes". This doesn't quite fit my requirement, by may fit yours.
Edit: A quick search on "fan-out" term also found this on using Zapier Queue. Again,as it's queuing I suspect there may be a delay in onward processing.
Edit2: Following email to Zapier support - situation is still as per links i.e.time delay, but "...in your zap you can define the length of the delay to minimize the lag. This case you shouldn't have any problem setting a 1 minute delay since there's no need for it to be any longer, which can help you get a lot closer to 'near real time'."
Edit3: Further info from Zapier support - apparently if you configure two Webhook-Webhook Zaps you can fire them both with one URL as "https://zapier.com/hooks/catch/xxhook1,xyhook2" - appears to fire both zaps pretty immediately.
Edit4: One thing to watch with the multi-zap approach (as Edit3) is that if one send to target fails then you can replay manually (via Zapier site and paying customer) - there's no ability (currently) to manage automatic retrying (not sure if there's any ability to monitor this event).
Without using oauth2.
Because I don't want to get any user's data or do an authentication, only get the id.
And I want to monitor login/logout (chrome.identity.onSignInChanged does not work).
ps I need ID for storing data on my server (chrome.storage.sync is too small).
You say you dont want to use oauth because you dont need any user data. However the id or email IS user data and there's an oauth scope just for that. Use it, else the other alternatives might break in the future, or wait until chrome identity is out for all.
Another way if you really dont want oauth is to store a random number in chrome sync and use that as your id. If the random is large enough you will avoid collitions in practice. Prepend the random with the current millseconds since 1970 and I bet there will be no collitions.
chrome.identity.onSignInChanged is not working (as you mentioned), because it is currently available on the dev channel only (according to this and other sources online).
So, with a little bit of luck, it will be available on the stable channel soon...
A little hacky, but (as suggested in this answer) you could make an AJAX requests to https://www.google.com/settings/account and parse the content to extract the info about user being logged in and user e-mail.
(That's not very robust, of course, since the e-mail might change, but maybe good enough for a temporary work-around.)
There is information on a website that is neatly listed and every so often (not on a set schedule) it updates with new information. I am wanting to write a quick script that will automatically let me know when something new has been updated instead of letting me know every x-amount of house/minutes.
My initial thought was that I would have the script pull all the information I was looking for and store it in a list and on the next scan create a new list and get rid of all duplicates which would leave me with what the new information is.
If you know of an effective way to go about such things and could lead me in the right direction, it would be appreciated.
I'm not really looking for source code, just how to go about it and I'm sure I can put it together after some guidance on an efficient way to do it.
You can poll the website, there is no real way you can register a change listener.
If you are ready to poll then document.lastModified (js) can help.
Of course if your website have rss feeds then you can listen for changes.
or there are some free services that will send you an email notification if you register for their services. things (eg: http://www.followthatpage.com/)
Let's assume i have a website like quora where i want to count how many visitors saw a particular page/question...("This question was visited 345 times")
i know i could create a column where i store a value that increases every user visits it.
But what about using some external service...that maybe can more robust and reliable (filtering unique/pageviews etc..)
any suggestion?
(what about Google Analytics API?)
thanks!
Google analytics? Or any of the other analytics packages will give you lots of info. Or you could run your own and put it on a memcached layer to make it super fast.
The best way is to do it manually. There are some ways to do it...
If you dont want try http://www.tinycounter.com/create.php kai for each url add one registration with the some email... Though this is not efficient for many pages!
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