Google Tag Manager script integration #36

sergiocastro95 · 2022-09-29T16:42:25Z

sergiocastro95
Sep 29, 2022

Summary

Following the way to integrate the tinybird script that sends the events is this:

<script
  defer
  src="https://unpkg.com/@tinybirdco/flock.js"
  data-token="YOUR_TRACKER_TOKEN">
</script>

This works if you hardcoded the snippet directly in your html <head> tag, but it doesn't work if you try to insert throught Google Tag Manager.
GTM removes all data-attributes (and defer too) so the script could not take the tracker token and all the requests fails:

The solution is to change the original script for this one (you could minify it before use in production):

<script>
  var script = document.createElement('script');
  script.defer = true;
  script.src = "https://unpkg.com/@tinybirdco/flock.js";
  script.dataset.host = "YOUR_HOST";
  script.dataset.token = "YOUR_TRACKER_TOKEN";
  document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(script);
</script>

It creates your script tag with all data needed once page is load, so GTM can't remove any data-attributes .
As a result, script loads correctly and the events are sent 🎉

It also works if you copy&paste directly inside <head> tag. So this could be the default way to insert the script in any web page.

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Google Tag Manager script integration #36

sergiocastro95 Sep 29, 2022

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