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Using Google Tag Manager and UTM
  • Vote Up0Vote Down jacobrosenfeldjacobrosenfeld
    Posts: 33Sendy user

    Does anyone know how to use Google Tag Manager to subscribe users to a list? I can pull the email address from the Data Layer, that's easy, I can't figure out how to post it to the Sendy API.

    Thanks.

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  • Vote Up0Vote Down espenespen
    Posts: 11Sendy user

    Sending a HTTP request using JavaScript to the form URL should work I would think.

  • Vote Up0Vote Down jacobrosenfeldjacobrosenfeld
    Posts: 33Sendy user

    How would I do that?

  • Vote Up0Vote Down workhorseworkhorse
    Posts: 5Sendy user

    How did the email address get into the datalayer in the first place? I ask b/c it would probably be more reliable to submit it from the web server to Sendy API rather than fire a GTM tag to the Sendy API. GTM is blocked by ad blockers for example. Not only that, but doing this in GTM would expose your Sendy API key which is a security issue.

  • Vote Up0Vote Down jacobrosenfeldjacobrosenfeld
    Posts: 33Sendy user

    That's a good point but the form is a third party form on my website so I can't submit it directly but I want to capture those addresses

  • Vote Up0Vote Down workhorseworkhorse
    Posts: 5Sendy user

    Makes sense. I was able to get this to work with something like this:

    <script> var url = "https://SENDYDOMAIN/subscribe"; var method = "POST"; var postData = "api_key=APIKEY&email={{EMAIL DLV HERE}}&list=LIST ID"; var shouldBeAsync = true; var request = new XMLHttpRequest(); request.onload = function () { var status = request.status; var data = request.responseText; } request.open(method, url, shouldBeAsync); request.setRequestHeader("Content-Type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"); request.send(postData); </script>

    In my tag, but you'll probably get lots of CORS errors so you'll need to add Access-Control-Allow-Origin response headers on the server where Sendy is installed to allow POST requests from the server where the form is. I'm also not a great JavaScript developer so there is probably / may be a better way than the above, it was adapted from Stack Overflow (I know, I know).

  • Vote Up0Vote Down jacobrosenfeldjacobrosenfeld
    Posts: 33Sendy user

    Thanks. Working except the CORS errors, how would I install Access-Control-Allow-Origin?

  • Vote Up0Vote Down jacobrosenfeldjacobrosenfeld
    Posts: 33Sendy user

    I think this answers that question: https://wesbos.com/mailchimp-to-sendy

  • Vote Up0Vote Down workhorseworkhorse
    Posts: 5Sendy user

    Great. If you have apache server, you'd edit your Sendy .htaccess file. You'd need to test, but I think you'd want:

    Header set Access-Control-Allow-Origin: https://domain-with-form.com/ Header set Access-Control-Request-Method: POST

    I just tested that and it worked for me.

  • Vote Up0Vote Down jacobrosenfeldjacobrosenfeld
    Posts: 33Sendy user

    I just edited the subscribe.php with this: Header set Access-Control-Allow-Origin: https://domain-with-form.com/

  • Vote Up0Vote Down jacobrosenfeldjacobrosenfeld
    Posts: 33Sendy user

    This ends up creating a huge error_log file in /var/log, not sure why, I just end up deleting it every couple of days, but it ends up being like 200mb, not sure why. Any insight?

  • Vote Up0Vote Down jacobrosenfeldjacobrosenfeld
    Posts: 33Sendy user

    I think what happened was I updated Sendy and because I had only put that domain allow in the subscribe.php when I updated it my adjustment was lost, now I put it in the .htaccess and I think it's working

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