Ad Tag Finder

Node.js module to identify HTTP requests made by advertising and analytics tags

Using Ad Tag Finder in conjunction with your existing browser tests lets you:

• make sure that front end changes don't break your advertising or analytics tracking
• ensure that automated browsers tests aren't artificially inflating your metrics
• be certain that no unexpected tags are making requests when your pages load

Ad Tag Finder can also help in any case where you need to identify or filter all or a subset of advertising tags.

Examples

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Live demo

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Contents

1. Installation
2. Usage
3. API
4. Contributing
5. License

Installation

npm install @obscurity/adtagfinder

Ad Tag Finder supports and is tested on the following Node.js runtime versions:

• Current Release (9)
• Active LTS (8)

Usage

Ad Tag Finder can be used with your browser automation tool of choice. In this example, we use Puppeteer to drive Chrome.

const puppeteer = require("puppeteer");
const adtagfinder = require("@obscurity/adtagfinder");

(async () => {
  const browser = await puppeteer.launch(
    process.env.DEBUG ? { headless: false, slowMo: 100 } : {}
  );
  const page = await browser.newPage();

  page.on("request", request => {
    let tag = adtagfinder.identifyUrl(request.url());
    if (tag) console.log(tag.name);
  });

  await page.goto("https://www.obscurity.ie", { waitUntil: "networkidle2" });
  browser.close();
})();

API

Ad Tag Finder is very simple, and exposes three functions:

• identifyUrl (url)
• findTagDefinition (expectedTag)
• findTag (expectedTag, urls)

Contributing

Contributors (and feature/tag requests) are very welcome - check out out Contributing Guide.

License

Ad Tag Finder © Obscurity Ltd. It is released under the MIT Licence.