brentvollebregt / hit-counter

Easily count hits 📈 on a website by requesting a SVG displaying hit count 🎯

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hit-counter's Issues

Is the same person viewing the repo again and again counted as another view?

How does counting for another site work?

Thanks for this nice project. I'm just a little confused regarding "Getting a Count For a Site That Isn't Me". I want to count the visit for a github.io page, but display the count in the corresponding repo. Do I need to include any code in the webpage for it to be counted? If not, how does the counting server know about visits to that page?

Could we make this var DATABASE_PATH?

hit-counter/config.py

Line 4 in 75cea49

DATABASE_FILE_PATH = os.path.abspath(os.getenv('DATABASE_FILE_PATH', 'data.db'))

Could we make this var DATABASE_PATH , it would match nicely with https://github.com/brentvollebregt/hit-counter/pull/13/files#diff-cc6ea9c07756620c4ec87e2d01f53d6bR3 to be fed into https://github.com/fluential/docker-sqlite-to-s3

Only one hit per ip

Re-requesting the same svg url with same ip should imo not increment the counter.

Count starts with 733 instead of 1

Hi,
Thanks for this very cool tool, I included it in all my repos.

I just inserted the markup for your hit counter in my repo https://github.com/ArminJo/Smart-Battery-Module-Info_For_Arduino , but for this repo it did not start with 1 but starts with 733!
This is the included markup:

How can I reset the counter?

Thanks in advance
Armin

Is this still working now?

I tried this one: https://github.com/brentvollebregt/hit-counter#using-xmlhttprequest.

Doesn't seem to work tho.

Any ideas?

hit-counter gives timeout

my hitcounters does not work. e.g. https://hitcounter.pythonanywhere.com/count/tag.svg?url=https://github.com/ArminJo/ServoEasing

Bug : Not Working (Doesn't Show up )

It shows :::
Error Fetching Resource
For my repo count at https://github.com/khanfarhan10/TextSentimentAnalysis

Even the update of my comments is disabled (by settings?) :-(

The refresh response also contains the line:
Error code: 502-backend

The site is down

https://hitcounter.pythonanywhere.com/ is down. Please look into it.

Deprecated Usage Examples

When copying and pasting the javascript demo code for Getting the Count Raw my browser gives following warning in the console:

[Deprecation] Synchronous XMLHttpRequest on the main thread is deprecated because of its detrimental effects to the end user's experience. For more help, check https://xhr.spec.whatwg.org/.

I think updating the example to use asynchronous JS would be good long-term.

Thankyou! Such a cool idea!

So I had pretty much this exact idea a few months ago, and am glad I didn't try to implement it (yours is much better). I was going to try to dynamically create PNGs (which is much sillier and harder than SVGs), and I didn't think of using an anti-refresh system too!

Just wanted to thank you for creating this 👌

proxy not supported

Hi, this is a really good tool. But it seems that your domain does not support proxy visit?

Appears to be down

Hi,

Your website appears to be down https://www.isitdownrightnow.com/hitcounter.pythonanywhere.com.html

Let me know if there's anything I can do to help you fix.

Jago

Counter is broken

See: https://github.com/singularityhacker
It was working fine for several weeks but seems to have suddenly stopped.

Hosting on heroku

Pythonanywhere had a very bad performance in the region I'm living (South Asia) so I had to deploy this on heroku for a better performance. The API request time for pythonanywhere ranged from 2-4 seconds, while heroku gives me sub 500ms response times. The problem is that heroku doesn't support persistent filesystem in free tier so I had to patch the code to work with postgres as it is available in heroku free tier.

My fork with postgres settings is here: https://github.com/zubair-temi/hit-counter

Should I open a pull request to this repo to merge these changes? Maybe you can keep it in a separate branch. What do you think?

I'd also update the README with heroku + postgres deployment instructions if you're willing to merge the changes.

How to install

I am pretty new to Python and do not really understand where to put the files. I want to use it at my own server, let's say: www.example.com
The web files are saved in /var/www/html/myExample/ where myExample is the root directory
of example.com. I have the python files in this directory, too and can successfully start the server.py
I put your template index.html into /var/www/html/myExample/ but I suppose that is not enough??

OperationError: database is locked

I hosted on PythonAnywhere and the database is locked sometimes. I saw that in the Error log. How to prevent this?

hit counter url is barely responsive

https://hitcounter.pythonanywhere.com response time is very slow, some time it returns something went wrong message

Ajax request makes the count continuously increasing

Hello,

I don't know if i'm miss-using your plugin or if it's me but given this code:

/**
 * Replace target element inner html
 * @param {*} elementId 
 * @param {*} text 
 */
function replaceTextInElementById(elementId, text){
  document.getElementById(elementId).innerHTML = text;
};

/**
 * Make ajax request and update hits counter
 * @param {*} url 
 * @param {*} elementId 
 */
function updateHitCounterText(url, elementId) {
  return $.ajax('https://hitcounter.pythonanywhere.com/count',{data:{url: url}}).then(hitCount => {
    replaceTextInElementById(elementId, hitCount);
  });
};

const baseUrl = window.origin + '{{ site.baseurl }}';  // i.e: http://localhost:4000/blog
updateHitCounterText(baseUrl, 'total-hits-counter');

The counter is increasing continuously, making it kinda inaccurate. Tbh, that's not much a problem, but since the image is working as intended (not increasing even if you spam refresh), I was wondering if this was normal ;)

Thanks for reading, and thanks for your simple yet very nice work!

Add a license

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Your issue setting may be wrong.

I again cannot comment in #19 and #20
I have no server I just pasted the URL from above in my local Firefox browser.

Github shows You can't comment at this time.

Since Github shows You can't comment at this time, I try with a new issue.

Ok locally it took more than 30 seconds to see the result, but Github waits only for a few seconds otherwise it displays the link text.
At refreshing my local test in Firefox I see now no result but.

Something went wrong :-( 
This website is hosted by PythonAnywhere, an online hosting environment. 
Something went wrong while trying to load it; please try again later.

Feature request: allow to count files download

Hi.

Your project seems really nice, with clear documentation & clean code (plus I like Python very much !)

I have a need for a self-hosted web app that would allow me to count file downloads for specific files (PDFs & ZIPs).

I the past I used a public instance of dolomon, but it is now closing and I would like to use a more well maintained software, ideally not written in Perl nor PHP.

I searched around on the web, but I could not find any solution that met those requirements.
So maybe that could also be another nice feature of your hit-counter project?

Technically, it could probably be done in Javascript using the current version of hit-counter,
but it isn't documented and I have had bad experiences of messing with download links:
depending on browsers, timing & many other factors sometimes the "hit" may not be properly counted due to the page switch,
or worse, the file download may fail for the user.

Hence I was thinking more about a system like dolomon used, where you "register" a link with hit-counter,
and the app provides a "download link" that acts as a 302 redirect.
This would probably require a DB schema change though.

What do you think about all this ?

No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource

My requests started getting blocked from today.

Access to fetch at 'https://hitcounter.pythonanywhere.com/count?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bluprince13.com%2Fblog%2Fchanging-careers-from-aerospace-engineering-to-web-development%2F' from origin 'https://www.bluprince13.com' has been blocked by CORS policy: No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource. If an opaque response serves your needs, set the request's mode to 'no-cors' to fetch the resource with CORS disabled.

This is my code:

    const query = `?url=${encodeURIComponent(url)}`
    const path = `https://hitcounter.pythonanywhere.com/count${query}`
    const response = await fetch(path, {
        method: 'GET'
    })
    const hitCount = await response.json()

Feature request: unique visitor count

Hi,
It would be really great if there's a feature of getting total count of unique visitors. If unique visitor by username of github is not possible, what about counting unique visitor by IP-address or anything else maybe? (I think it's possible, I found some sites provide this feature by image, couldn't find any which provide SVG).

Hosted on #!

Hello. I've hosted an instance on #! for my own usage but anyone else is welcome to use too as long as they haven't got tons of traffic.

https://farooqkz.de1.hashbang.sh

Hit Counter Badge isn't coming

The badge isn't coming up I don't know what is the problem even I can't see the badge in this repo also !