Text selection tracking

[Carina_Rogl (Carina Ro)]

Hello

does anyone know if you can track with matomo when the user is selecting text?

Thank you for your help

BR
Carina

[Lukas (Lukas Winkler)]

Hi,

You can track everything in Matomo in Matomo by writing a line of Javascript that sends an event when something happens that you want.

For tracking user copy events you could e.g. use something like this:

document.addEventListener('copy', function(e){
    _paq.push(['trackEvent', 'copy', 'something was copied']);
});

With text selection it may become more complex as there is no simple browser API for it, but it should still be possible.

Selected text event trigger in Javascript

[fdellwing (Fabian Dellwing)]

@Lukas

For tracking user copy events you could e.g. use something like this:

Please note, that this feature is really unstable in some browsers.

[Carina_Rogl (Carina Ro)]

Thank you for your help!
I will try something out and if I find something I’ll let you know!
BR
Carina