utm-tracker-django 1.0

Middleware to track UTM parameters in Django

📊 django-utm-tracker

A lightweight Django middleware package to track and store UTM parameters in the user's session, enabling attribution tracking for performance marketing and analytics workflows.

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🚀 Features

• ✅ Automatically captures common UTM parameters from URL queries.
• ✅ Stores them in session for use across multiple views.
• ✅ Simple, non-intrusive middleware integration.
• ✅ Fully extensible and pluggable.

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🔧 Installation

Install the package using pip:

pip install django-utm-tracker

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⚙️ Setup

1. Add Middleware

In your Django settings, add the middleware to your MIDDLEWARE list:

MIDDLEWARE = [
    ...
    'django_utm_tracker.middleware.UTMMiddleware',
]

Make sure it comes before any middleware that processes sessions or modifies redirects.

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2. (Optional) Custom UTM Parameters

By default, it tracks:

• utm_source
• utm_medium
• utm_campaign
• utm_term
• utm_content

You can override these by defining UTM_PARAMETERS in your settings.py:

UTM_PARAMETERS = [
    'utm_source',
    'utm_medium',
    'utm_campaign',
    'utm_term',
    'utm_content',
    'ref',  # example of a custom parameter
]

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🧪 Usage in Views

You can access UTM data from the session like this:

def my_view(request):
    source = request.session.get("utm_source")
    campaign = request.session.get("utm_campaign")
    ...

You can then store these in your models (like a Lead, Order, etc.) if needed.

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🧱 Project Structure

django_utm_tracker/
├── __init__.py
├── conf.py
└── middleware.py

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💡 Use Cases

• Tracking UTM for lead generation forms
• Measuring ad performance across landing pages
• Associating user behavior with marketing campaigns

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✅ Example

For a URL like:

https://yourdomain.com/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=spring_sale

The middleware will automatically populate request.session with:

{
    'utm_source': 'google',
    'utm_medium': 'cpc',
    'utm_campaign': 'spring_sale'
}

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🧰 Future Enhancements

• Model integration via signals or mixins
• Cookie fallback if session is cleared
• Expiry timeout for UTM session values
• Admin visibility of tracked UTM data

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📜 License

MIT License

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👨‍💻 Author

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