DavidZemens I won't call it a duplicate. The OP is concerned about his solution not working rather than finding a different one. Also cloudflare sites often restrict access based on user agent. If you open the file in a text editor you'll probably find html there instead of a pdf. So is there any way i can download files like that?? Show 4 more comments. Active Oldest Votes.
Try this. It works. Improve this answer. Fensa Saj Fensa Saj 1 1 silver badge 3 3 bronze badges. Turns out this code does work. The PDF at the url in the code above happens to be corrupt. Pointing it to the PDF I wanted worked fine — gotube. Add a comment. You can also use wget to download pdfs via a link: import wget wget.
You can't download the pdf content from the given url using requests or urllib. Because initially the given url was pointed to another web page after that only it loads the pdf. If you have doubt save the response as html instead of pdf. No matter how cool is your setup; if it sends incorrect data or maybe never works , all your efforts are for nothing.
Enable the preview and debug mode by clicking the Preview button in the top right corner. This blog post explains a very similar issue. Refresh the page and the Preview console must appear at the bottom of your page. If it does not, read this guide. Now, click the PDF link. Also, try clicking some other random links on your site that are not related to PDF.
Click Submit button in the top right corner, enter the Version Name e. You need to have Publish rights in the container to do that. Read this article to learn more. What if I told you that with a single trigger and tag you can automatically track other files as well, for example,.
For that, all you need to do is to update your trigger conditions. Open the trigger that you have created in one of the previous chapters and do this:. That regular expression means that if the clicked link contains. If you want to add more supported file extensions, add a pipe vertical line before the closing parentheses and then enter one more extension. If you want to save some time in the future, you can check this GTM Container template for tracking file downloads.
Download the template, import it and it will automatically create all the tags and variables you need. However, keep in mind that non-real-time a. There is some delay that depends on the traffic volume your GA property is getting. The delay might take minutes, but it also might take hours. GA keeps the right to display the data within 24 hours. You should see your file download events there. What is a goal?
It is an important interaction for your business, a. That interaction can be a view of a certain pageview, a number of page views, event, etc. In this case, we can instruct Google Analytics to treat certain file link click events as super important. Then check the GA Real-time reports. But what if your business or Content Management System is naming files in a very bizarre way and all you can see in reports is this?
This is a bit more technical. The href attribute shows the destination URL of that link a. You should explain to a developer, that this new custom attribute should include some meaningful, more understandable information about the file.
Maybe in your CMS, that file is already using a proper name? This step to get a developer buy-in is the most difficult. Now, the easier part — GTM configuration. Enter the following settings:. In the Attribute Name field, you must enter the name of that custom attribute that your developer has added, e. Sometimes, file links on websites contain no file extension at all like. This principle was already covered in the previous chapter. Try to cooperate with a developer and ask for additional data attributes, like data-filename or data-fileurl.
Another option could be to ask a developer to push the file information to the Data Layer every time a visitor clicks the file link. Here is an example of the code:. Once a developer does that, you will need to check.
Once you have this, create a Custom Event Trigger :. Then create a Data Layer Variable that will return the filename:. Sometimes, I end blog posts with the most popular questions I see online related to the current topic. This time, I have only one. Hopefully, the list will be updated in the future if I notice new trends in the comments section below.
Using this tool, you can create objects linked to PDF documents, websites, and a lot more. Here's how it's done:. Step 2. Step 3. In the "Link" dialog window that opens up, pick "Open a File" as your option and click the "…" to choose the PDF file on your computer. You can also control several attributes of the link, such as the type of link to be displayed, its style, color, etc.
Step 4. Hit "OK" and the job is done. You can now re-position your link and get it where you want it to be shown. Don't forget to save the file when you're done.
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