HTTP Request show visit

[sehcacsoF]

When I make an HTTPS request, it doesn’t show up in Google Analytics as a visit. How do I make the request appear in Google Analytics as a visit, triggering Google Tag Manager triggers?

Thanks

[jan]

Sadly do not know much about Google Tag Manager. But pretty sure it runs some kind of JavaScript. n8n is then for sure the wrong tool for that. If you want that JavaScript gets executed you have to call it with a headless browser.

You could try this community node:

n8n-nodes-puppeteer

Is however more complex to install to a regular node as it has other dependencies. You can find some more information about that here:

PuppeteerJS Execution (or other Web Scraping)

@rafuru If it can help you, I share you my docker-compose used to work on my extended version of the Puppeteer node: n8n puppeteer docker-compose · GitHub PS: You don’t need the second volume in my docker-compose (it was to link the dev version of the node, but you will just have to install it from the Community nodes UI)

If actually all you care about is to show up in Google Analytics you can check in your browser what kind of request gets made by that JavaScript code and do exactly the same.

[sehcacsoF]

In fact, what I need is for a pageview to be triggered from a specific page, which computes a conversion in Google Ads. I don’t know if this is the best way.

[jan]

Interesting. As I said have sadly no idea about Google Analytics. Maybe somebody else knows if there are other or better ways to do that.