Snowplow GA Cookies Tracking

Browser Plugin to be used with @snowplow/browser-tracker.

Adds Google Analytics 4 and optionally Universal Analytics cookies to your Snowplow tracking.

Maintainer quick start

Part of the Snowplow JavaScript Tracker monorepo. Build with Node.js (18+) and Rush.

Setup repository

npm install -g @microsoft/rush
git clone https://github.com/snowplow/snowplow-javascript-tracker.git
rush update

Package Installation

With npm:

npm install @snowplow/browser-plugin-ga-cookies

Usage

Initialize your tracker with the GaCookiesPlugin:

import { newTracker } from '@snowplow/browser-tracker';
import { GaCookiesPlugin } from '@snowplow/browser-plugin-ga-cookies';

newTracker('sp1', '{{collector}}', { plugins: [ GaCookiesPlugin(
    /* pluginOptions */
) ] });

/*
 * Available plugin options `GACookiesPluginOptions`:
 * {
 * ua: Send Universal Analytics specific cookie values. Defaults to false.
 * ga4: Send Google Analytics 4 specific cookie values. Defaults to true.
 * ga4MeasurementId: Measurement id/ids to search the Google Analytics 4 session cookie. Can be a single measurement id as a string or an array of measurement id strings. The cookie has the form of <cookie_prefix>_ga_<container-id> where <container-id> is the data stream container id and <cookie_prefix> is the optional cookie_prefix option of the gtag.js tracker.
 * cookiePrefix: Cookie prefix set on the Google Analytics 4 cookies using the cookie_prefix option of the gtag.js tracker.
 * }
 */

Copyright and license

Licensed and distributed under the BSD 3-Clause License (An OSI Approved License).

Copyright (c) 2023 Snowplow Analytics Ltd.

All rights reserved.