First, you need to install and activate the MonsterInsights plugin. For more details, see our step by step guide on how to install a WordPress plugin. If you need help, then follow the instructions in our guide on installing Google Analytics in WordPress.
Note: File download tracking is available in the free version of MonsterInsights as well, so you can see the reports inside Google Analytics. Once you have set up the plugin, it will automatically start tracking file downloads as events. To see statistics about your downloads, just go to Insights » Reports and switch to the Publishers tab:. Scroll down, and you will see your top download links. These will be listed along with their anchor text:. If you have more than 1 link to a specific file, then those links will be listed separately here.
This is useful if you want to find out exactly how users are downloading files. What if you want a report of which files are the most popular, regardless of the links used? This will take you straight into Google Analytics, where you will see a report with the URLs of your downloaded files:. By default, MonsterInsights tracks downloads for all common file types including documents. Simply go to Insights » Settings page and then switch to the Engagement tab:. Simply type in any additional file extensions you want to track.
Just make sure you put a comma between them. MonsterInsights will now start tracking all files ending with the file extension you added in settings.
We recommend installing MonsterInsights alongside both the 2 and 3 solution for managing and control file download access because MonsterInsights will help you see the right stats that matter.
If you want to sell online courses or digital downloads, then a great way to control and manage file downloads is to use MemberPress. MemberPress has an addon called MemberPress Downloads that lets you track each files that your members download. It also gives you advanced access control, letting you upload multiple files and tag, categorize, and list them easily. Aside from files, you can also protect other content on your site as well.
This is a great option if you are building courses or premium content library that you only want members to be able to access. First, you need to install and activate the MemberPress plugin.
Upon activation, go to the MemberPress » Settings » License page in the WordPress admin area to enter your license key. You will find this information under your account on the MemberPress website. Next, go to the MemberPress » Add-ons page. Here, you simply need to find the Downloads add-on. You can also choose additional options on this page, such as adding categories or tags to your download. Then, under Access Conditions, click the dropdown. Now, go to the MP Downloads » Files page again.
You will see your file listed here. It should have the correct access type based on its tag. Next, paste this shortcode into any post or page on your WordPress site. Then, go ahead and paste your shortcode into your page. WordPress will automatically create a shortcode block for you:. Remember to protect your page using MemberPress rules if you want both the page and the file to only be accessible to members. You can view your download stats by visiting the MP Downnloads » Stats page.
From here you will see the list of users who downloaded the file with a time stamp. If you need further instructions, then please refer to our step by step guide on how to create a membership site in WordPress. This method is for users who want to sell file downloads along with physical goods like shirts, swags, etc. For this method, we will be using WooCommerce , which is the most popular eCommerce plugin for WordPress.
It is perfect for users who want to sell file downloads or users who want to make an online store. The scenario described above is not feasible in web applications. For example, click to save a photo or download a report. Anchor elements are useful for adding hyperlinks to other resources and documents from an HTML document.
The URL of the linked resource is specified in the href attribute of the anchor element. In HTML 5, a new download attribute was added to the anchor element. The download attribute can be given a valid filename as its value. However, the user can still modify the filename in the save prompt that pops-up.
There are a few noteworthy facts about the behavior of the download attribute:. There are now Web APIs that can be used to programmatically:. In this section, we will examine how we can programmatically generate content using Web APIs on the browser. Here is a breakdown of what we are about to do:. Here is what the CSV generation script could look like:. The code snippet simply logs the resulting CSV string to the console. First, we define a squareImages filter function for filtering images in the collection with equal width and height.
Next, we define a collectionToCSV higher-order function which takes an array of keys and returns a function that takes an array collection of objects and converts it to a CSV string extracting only the specified keys from each object.
Finally, we specify the fields we want to extract from each photo object in the collection in the exportFields array. Here is what the output could look like on the console:. In this example, we will use the Canvas API to manipulate the pixels of an image, making it appear grayscale. Here is a comparison between an actual image and the corresponding grayscale canvas image.
You can learn about Blobs here. Blobs are objects that are used to represent raw immutable data. Blob objects store information about the type and size of data they contain, making them very useful for storing and working file contents on the browser. In fact, the File object is a special extension of the Blob interface. Blob objects can be obtained from a couple of sources:.
Here are some code samples for the aforementioned blob object sources:. It is one thing to obtain a blob object and another thing altogether to work with it. One thing you want to be able to do is to read the content of the blob. That sounds like a good opportunity to use a FileReader object. You can learn about FileReader objects here. The client algorithm: Generate a random unique token. Show the "waiting" indicator. Start a timer, and every second or so, look for a cookie named "fileDownloadToken" or whatever you decide.
If the cookie exists, and its value matches the token, hide the "waiting" indicator. If it has a non-empty value, drop a cookie e. Improve this answer. David Passmore 6, 4 4 gold badges 43 43 silver badges 68 68 bronze badges. A heads up for others: if document. For some time I thought the issue was the special 'localhost' domain cookie handling stackoverflow.
May be that for others though so worth the read. Do you think that it will, or cookies restrictions will compromise it? Brilliant - it wouldn't have occurred to me in years that you could include cookies as part of a file download.
Thank you!! As others have pointed out, this solution only solves part of the problem, the waiting for the server to prepare the file time. The other part of the problem, which can be considerable depending on the size of the file and the connection speed, is how long it takes to actually get the whole file on the client.
And that is not solved with this solution. Show 16 more comments. Echilon 9, 28 28 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. This is a simple approach which is ideal for getting rid of a loading overlay for a file download which was triggered using onbeforeunload Thank you.
Safari, some IE versions, etc. Chrome and other such browsers auto-download the files where this condition will fail. Lucky that is only by default. It is entirely possible a user of Chrome will specify where downloads should be saved and hence see the dialog box — ESR. Add a comment. Don't eval code inside setTimeout 'getstatus ', ;. Use the fn directly: setTimeout getstatus, ; — Roko C. Jerzy Gebler Jerzy Gebler 9 9 silver badges 13 13 bronze badges. What if the user clicks the window?
The hide is not getting called in my case — Prashant Pimpale. Worked for me for a pdf download with only some line of codes — Chris. My case is working on JSP and click to download csv. It works. Show 1 more comment. There are four known approaches to dealing with detecting when a browser download starts: Call fetch , retrieve the entire response, attach an a tag with a download attribute, and trigger a click event.
Modern web browsers will then offer the user the option to save the already retrieved file. There are several downsides with this approach: The entire data blob is stored in RAM, so if the file is large, it will consume that much RAM. For small files, this probably isn't a deal breaker. The user has to wait for the entire file to download before they can save it. They also can't leave the page until it completes.
The built-in web browser file downloader is not used. A cross-domain fetch will probably fail unless CORS headers are set. The iframe fires a load event if a page loads in the iframe instead of starting a download but it does not fire any events if the download starts.
Setting a cookie with the web server can then be detected by Javascript in a loop. There are several downsides with this approach: The server and client have to work in concert. The server has to set a cookie. The client has to detect the cookie. Cross-domain requests won't be able to set the cookie.
There are limits to how many cookies can be set per domain. Can't send custom HTTP headers. Use an iframe with URL redirection. The iframe starts a request and once the server has prepared the file, it dumps a HTML document that performs a meta refresh to a new URL, which triggers the download 1 second later.
The load event on the iframe happens when the HTML document loads. There are several downsides with this approach: The server has to maintain storage for the content being downloaded. Requires a cron job or similar to regularly clean up the directory. The server has to dump out special HTML content when the file is ready. The client has to guess as to when the iframe has actually made the second request to the server and when the download has actually started before removing the iframe from the DOM.
This could be overcome by just leaving the iframe in the DOM. The iframe triggers the download request. As soon as the request is made via the iframe, an identical request via XHR is made. If the load event on the iframe fires, an error has occurred, abort the XHR request, and remove the iframe. If a XHR progress event fires, then downloading has probably started in the iframe, abort the XHR request, wait a few seconds, and then remove the iframe.
This allows for larger files to be downloaded without relying on a server-side cookie. There are several downsides with this approach: There are two separate requests made for the same information. The server can distinguish the XHR from the iframe by checking the incoming headers. If the server waits to send headers until the file data is ready, the XHR can roughly detect when the iframe has started to download even without CORS.
The client has to guess as to when the download has actually started to remove the iframe from the DOM. Can't send custom headers on the iframe. CubicleSoft CubicleSoft 1, 15 15 silver badges 18 18 bronze badges. Elmer Elmer 8, 1 1 gold badge 44 44 silver badges 35 35 bronze badges. Still has the issue of switching window and returning which will cause the modal to hide.
JQuery is supported but not required. Community Bot 1 1 1 silver badge. Jorge Paulo Jorge Paulo 3 3 silver badges 4 4 bronze badges.
Art Geigel Art Geigel 1, 3 3 gold badges 19 19 silver badges 23 23 bronze badges. MB33 MB33 71 1 1 silver badge 1 1 bronze badge. It's works perfectly. Thanks for this beatiful sample. I'm very late to the party but I'll put this up here if anyone else would like to know my solution: I had a real struggle with this exact problem but I found a viable solution using iframes I know, I know. It's terrible but it works for a simple problem that I had I had an html page that launched a separate php script that generated the file and then downloaded it.
Walker Boh Walker Boh 6 6 silver badges 13 13 bronze badges. If the file is ready, do the download. If the file is not ready, show the progress. That sounds like the temporary-file approach I mentioned above.
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