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https://jennamolby.com/how-to-use-cookies-to-capture-url-parameters/ | |
let YOUR_DOMAIN = "YOUR_DOMAIN.TLD" // ex: scrapingbee.com | |
function getParameterByName(name) { | |
name = name.replace(/[\[]/, "\\[").replace(/[\]]/, "\\]"); | |
var regex = new RegExp("[\\?&]" + name + "=([^&#]*)"), | |
results = regex.exec(location.search); | |
return results === null ? "" : decodeURIComponent(results[1].replace(/\+/g, " ")); | |
} | |
// Give the URL parameters variable names | |
var utm_source = getParameterByName('utm_source'); | |
var utm_medium = getParameterByName('utm_medium'); | |
var utm_campaign = getParameterByName('utm_campaign'); | |
var utm_term = getParameterByName('utm_term'); | |
var now = new Date(); | |
now.setMonth( now.getMonth() + 1 ); | |
function getCookie(cname) { | |
var name = cname + "="; | |
var decodedCookie = decodeURIComponent(document.cookie); | |
var ca = decodedCookie.split(';'); | |
for(var i = 0; i <ca.length; i++) { | |
var c = ca[i]; | |
while (c.charAt(0) == ' ') { | |
c = c.substring(1); | |
} | |
if (c.indexOf(name) == 0) { | |
return c.substring(name.length, c.length); | |
} | |
} | |
return ""; | |
} | |
// Set the cookies | |
if(utm_source != "" && getCookie("utm_source") == "") { | |
document.cookie = `utm_source=${utm_source}; domain=${YOUR_DOMAIN}; expires="${now.toUTCString()}"` | |
} | |
if(utm_medium != "" && getCookie("utm_medium") == "") { | |
document.cookie = `utm_medium=${utm_medium}; domain=${YOUR_DOMAIN}; expires="${now.toUTCString()}"` | |
} | |
if(utm_campaign != "" && getCookie("utm_campaign") == "") { | |
document.cookie = `utm_campaign=${utm_campaign}; domain=${YOUR_DOMAIN}; expires="${now.toUTCString()}"` | |
} | |
if(utm_term != "" && getCookie("utm_term") == "") { | |
document.cookie = `utm_term=${utm_term}; domain=${YOUR_DOMAIN}; expires="${now.toUTCString()}"` | |
} | |
if(document.referrer != "" && getCookie("referrer") == "") { | |
document.cookie = `referrer=${document.referrer}; domain=${YOUR_DOMAIN}; expires="${now.toUTCString()}"` | |
} | |
// Set the cookies | |
var utm_journey = getCookie("utm_journey"); | |
var current_relative_path = location.href.replace(location.origin,''); | |
if (utm_journey != "") { | |
old_journey = atob(utm_journey) | |
new_journey = `${old_journey} - ${current_relative_path}` | |
document.cookie = `utm_journey=${btoa(new_journey)}; domain=${YOUR_DOMAIN}; path=/;` | |
} else { | |
document.cookie = `utm_journey=${btoa(current_relative_path)}; domain=${YOUR_DOMAIN}; expires="${now.toUTCString()}; path=/;` | |
} |
This is nice! Thank you very much.
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For some reason, the
Expires
value was always set toSession
instead of one month from now. I tried different things but it didn't work, so ended up using something that I already use, see below.Feel free to update the Gist with this!