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GA Cookies

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If this plugin is used, the tracker will look for Google Analytics cookies (specifically the “utma”, “utmb”, “utmc”, “utmv”, “__utmz”, and “_ga” cookies) and combine their values into an event context which gets sent with every event.

Installation​

  • npm install @snowplow/browser-plugin-ga-cookies
  • yarn add @snowplow/browser-plugin-ga-cookies
  • pnpm add @snowplow/browser-plugin-ga-cookies

Initialization​

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

newTracker('sp1', '{{collector_url}}', { 
   appId: 'my-app-id', 
   plugins: [ GaCookiesPlugin() ],
});

Context​

Adding this plugin will automatically capture the following context:

ContextExample
iglu:com.google.analytics/cookies/jsonschema/1-0-0