django-pixels

Tracking pixels made easy. For Python 2 and Django 1.7+

Features

• Built-in views to serve transparent pixels or 204 responses.
• Compose pixel tracking urls with different type IDs.
• Route tracking requests to functions using type IDs.

Implementation Notes with Short Examples

Install django-pixels:

pip install django-pixels

Mount pixel tracking URL patterns:

urlpatterns = [
    ...
    url(r'^tracker/', include('django_pixels.urls', namespace="pixels")),
    ...
]

Get the general pixel tracking url (This serves a transparent pixel as the response):

from django.core.urlresolvers import reverse
tracking_url = reverse('pixels:pixel') # given you have mounted django_pixels urls with namespace='pixels'

Get the tracking url with no-content(204) response (This serves an empty response with code 204):

from django.core.urlresolvers import reverse
tracking_url = reverse('pixels:pixel-204') # given you have mounted django_pixels urls with namespace='pixels'

Generate a pixel tracking url with type 1:

from django_pixels import utils

utils.compose_pixel_url(tracking_url, 1)

Write a function to handle tracking calls with type 1:

def track_emails(request):
    # handle tracking with the passed HttpRequest instance

Register the function to handle tracking calls with type 1:

from django_pixels import handlers

handlers.register(1, track_emails)

Or mark a function to handle tracking calls with type 2:

from django_pixels import handlers

@handlers.track(type_id=2)
def track_emails(request):
    # handle tracking with the passed HttpRequest instance

Settings

• PIXELS_TYPE_PARAMETER_NAME - Change the parameter name used for tracking type

Credits

Tools used in rendering this package:

• Cookiecutter
• cookiecutter-djangopackage