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Custom tracking on embedded PDF

New Here ,
Nov 03, 2020 Nov 03, 2020

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Hi,

I'm using an external analytics API on my site. For it to be able to track activity in iframes, they say I need to include the tracking code into said iframes as well. In other cases, even for iframes from other domains, this simple thing worked:

<iframe src="...">
<script>
//tracking code
</script>
</iframe>

 But with the PDF Embed API I'm starting with a div, in which the iframe is created dynamically. Is there any way I can get my tracking code there?
I tried adding the tracking code into the iframe.innerHTML after it's created but that doesn't seem to work for the tracking...
Thanks in advance!

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You don't need to add the tracking code to the embedded iframe. Instead, hook into the viewer event callbacks to trigger the analytics. 

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Thank you for the quick reply!
I think I have to (or I don't understand exactly what you mean). To be more specific, I'm using mouseflow.com, and according to this: https://help.mouseflow.com/en/articles/4282949-can-i-record-iframes-and-pop-up-windows the tracking code has to be there. In any case where I use iframes, unless I insert tracking code into the iframe, the iframe doesn't show in the mouseflow recording at all, there's just blank space.

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Ok. Mouseflow is a bit different from typical analytics. It's a heatmap. We don't have hooks for that. You won't be able to use it with Embed API.

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