So I’ve been desperately trying to figure out a way to sort posts using the amount of view, but of course, Webflow doesn’t support this. I’ve seen people suggesting using Zapier but you can only get new Google Analytics Goal as triggers in Zapier, so here’s what I’ve attempted.
Get Google Analytics Blog views into Google Sheets that updates once a day.
Use Sheet & Zapier to update a views field in the Blog Article CMS.
So #1 was easy. Used the Google Sheets Google Analytics addon to create a report that filtered for Blog Posts and runs once a day:
Then added a sheet that would be used by on a daily bases to get the views and slug for Zapier using an Array and regexreplace:
The idea here was that I could update the CMS posts on a daily basis with the new Views. I regexed the slug as I can’t use Title (we have posts with the same name for different regions, so would need their slug and not title to find the post to update).
This is pretty much how far I got. I’ve got two issues, one, how do I update just the views field for the post? Two, can I identify the post using it’s slug and not it’s Title?
For issue one, use the Patch item request to update only the field you want to change.
For issue two identify the post by its unique id which resolves the ‘same name for different regions’ issue.
Still need to find time and figure out a way to update the field in the right post via zapier. Might try something like Airtables if that doesn’t work, but by then it.might just be too much of a pain in the ass.
@J8kes the tricky part of this is that Webflow’s API doesn’t have a search endpoint so matching up the collection item to a slug is tough. I think using the webhook method on collection item creation to send the id out and return it to a field on the collection itemmight be your best bet. As @Jeandcc posted in this thread you could do that with Zapier or any sort of web application framework (i.e. Flask).
If Webflow had a search endpoint on the API this would be much simpler, but I’m not sure of another way to do it. I suppose you could call the Get All Items in Collection endpoint and then wade through the response to search the slug and find the id, but once you hit over 100 collection items you’ll have to deal with pagination.
{
"items": [
{
"_archived": false,
"_draft": false,
"color": "#4CAF50",
"featured": false,
"name": "5 Principles Of Effective Web Design",
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},
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},
"slug": "5-principles-of-effective-web-design",
"updated-on": "2016-10-24T19:42:46.957Z",
"updated-by": "Person_5660c5338e9d3b0bee3b86aa",
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"published-on": "2016-10-24T19:43:15.745Z",
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}
],
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}
You could probably write something like this to search for the slug after retrieving:
for item in items:
if item[slug] == your-slug:
id = item[_id]
return id
This is just a basic example of how this might be done in Python, obviously this is not tested or even close to final code. It’s just the basic logic of iterating through the response to find a slug and returning the id of that slug.
Then you would just have to put that id in your spreadsheet or database next to the slug.
Hi all, so spent some time last week to figure this one out and I have a no-code solution using Zapier, Google Analytics, Google Sheets and the Mixed Analytics API Connector that now updates my blog pageviews in the Webflow CMS so I can sort a collection list by pageviews. Seems to be working just fine. Not the easiest thing to do, but it’s updating a few times a day and it’s working. Will look into getting someone to write some code one day that I can host somewhere, but this works. Here’s the post on how we did it:
