Google Checkout API, automatic default language selector?
How do I select the google checkout default language? as my customers don't understand english.. so I have to set default language of Google checkout to their language..
seems in my browser it adds a GET request similar to ?hl=pt_PT to indicate language has been changed.
Unfortunately I checked the Google HTML API from start to end and found nothing related to language.
Then I thought Google was geniuses so obviously they implemented most likely some automatic language detection system, to confirm this.. I've used a Brazil proxy.. going to google.com would redirect me to google.com.br using probably some kind of geo-location database of ip addresses that access the page.
But this kind of automatic ip to language detection system doesn't exist for google checkout.. I tested, it was still in english.
Then i looked at forums and found worse news.
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/checkout-merchants/thread?tid=476957e70adc01f0&hl=en
So is there any like
<input type="hidden" name="language" value="pt_PT"/>
? something like that ? or no luck?
Google Checkout is localized in 19 languages for buyers.
The buyer can select their preferred language at checkout time by clicking on the drop-down in the top right corner.
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Is it possible to set some flag in my browser so that I always get the RECAPTHCA image challenges? Sometimes when you click on the "I am not a robot" button, it gives you a pop up challenge with something like "Click all the images which contain a car", but sometimes it just checks off the box and takes your word for the fact that you're not a robot.
I would like to test the UI of my tool both on a desktop and on mobile, and make sure that the challenge pop up shows up and interacts well with other elements of the page.
In other words, as a developer, I want Google to think that I'm a robot so that it always gives me the visual challenge.
Is there any way to force this behavior?
Note: I've done some research and was unable to find any relevant questions or blog posts that might yield an answer.
Force Google recaptcha to use simple checkbox click challenge asks for a way to force Google to NOT use the visual challenge, only the checkbox
How to force recheck user with reCAPTCHA? talks about forcing a recheck of some kind, but has no answers
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/recaptcha/2ed-s3KK3Do actually asks my same question, but users did not seem keen on providing answers, with one user just suggesting not to use RECAPTCHA at all!
https://developers.google.com/recaptcha/docs/faq#id-like-to-run-automated-tests-with-recaptcha-v2-what-should-i-do is straight from Google, but it does exactly the opposite of what I want - it sets your site up such that the captcha appears on the page but is actually a test captcha that always lets you pass, and NEVER gives you the challenge. I want the exact inverse of this.
The methods told here should generally work, but there is no guarantee of the same. There is a very easy way to guarantee that Google reCAPTCHA challenge always show up. All you need to do is to add a custom BOT device in developer tools and then use the same to test.
In Chrome Dev Tools, open Settings. Open Devices after that.
Add a custom device with any name and set User Agent String to Googlebot/2.1
Finally, in Device Mode, at the left of the top bar, choose the custom device that you created (the default is Responsive).
Thanks to the SO users who had put it up in the answer and follow-up comment here.
I too have been looking for similar functionality. While I have not found a code-based solution to force the challenge, I have found a fairly reliable hack.
Grab a VPN tool (I happen to use IP Vanish), then connect to a remote server (I've had success connecting to China). Then, open up a private/incognito window and fill out your form.
From my testing, the combination of the remote IP and the blank user session triggers the challenge.
Here are a few things you can try. In my experience all of them will increase your chances of getting a challenge.
Log in at https://www.google.com/recaptcha/admin and edit your
reCAPTCHA settings. Under Security Preference choose Most Secure.
Use a VPN + incognito mode (as suggested here)
If you're using the invisible reCAPTCHA, I found that using explicit
rendering + immediately calling grecaptcha.execute() after
grecaptcha.render() will usually trigger the challenge. I suspect
this is because Google's AI expects a user interaction of some kind
to trigger grecaptcha.execute() and not the onloadCallback itself.
I use reCAPTCHA's SDK in Android, and I also encounter the need to force validation when testing. I tried it many times. At last, I turned off or turned on the flight mode, which can be verified in the retest. I guess it may be that Google put my IP on the white list in the background, so I passed the verification without any challenge.
That should be possible, because when LinkedIn forcefully logged out an user for excessive usage, it showed captcha on next login, and there always was the challenge.
Unfortunately, LinkedIn switched from Recaptcha to another provider just few days ago, so I cannot just look up into their JavaScript code.
It is what makes me believe that Recaptcha does have an undocumented option to force the challenge.
2022 and later
It seems to be increasingly harder to trigger the recaptcha challenge of the invisible recaptcha. Using the UserAgent of a bot, going into incognito mode is not enough anymore. A VPN might work, but I do not trust free VPN services.
I am however still able to trigger the recaptcha challenge when I'm only using the keyboard while filling in the form fields and pressing the submit button with the enter key. It seems like the Google Recaptcha is now also following your mouse movements to determine if you are a real user. Make sure to never hover your mouse cursor over the webpage and only use the keyboard.
I was looking for something like this and after some research plus trial & error what worked for me is to use the invisible recaptcha and invoke the challenge with JS.
After you have loaded the recaptcha script on your page then do
grecaptcha.execute()
and the challenge might be invoked.
I'd like to disable tracking for a specific link in a campaign.
The reason I need to do this is Mailchimp/Mandrill's tracking creates a scenario where Universal Links do not work.
Example:
I'd like (1) to be a regular link, with no Mailchimp tracking
I'd like (2) to track as normal.
In Mandrill I achieve this by adding mc:disable-tracking to the HTML of my template
Is it possible to do this within Mailchimp?
Thanks!
From my experience with MailChimp, you can't turn off click tracking on a link-by-link basis. It's all or nothing for a given campaign. MailChimp has a support document on how to do this, but the gist of it is a simple checkbox when configuring the campaign options:
Incidentally lack of click tracking in emails is currently a major drawback of Universal Links. If you're using one of the major email systems (Responsys, ExactTarget, SendGrid, or SailThru) Branch.io [full disclosure: I'm on the Branch team] offers an integration to fix this, but unfortunately the MailChimp version is taking somewhat longer to get live (feel free to let them know you want such a thing!)
Hi i made a google web master tool account and sent 2 site maps: one for the italian language and one for the english one of my site.
Now, my site has a script in the index that redirects the users to mywebsite.it/it if he's italian otherwise it will go to mywebsite.it/en.
The problem is that now google's crawler(that obviously is not italian) only sees the english version of site and not both of them.
Is there a way to make it crawl and show the two different websites depending on the language?
Thanks
Do you use JavaScript to redirect the people? It would be better to use a server-side redirect, for example with .htaccess
However, when you link both language versions from your index page and Google accepted your sitemaps, your site should be okay to be indexed. Maybe it takes some more time until the crawler visits your Italian site, too.
Update: You could/should add a language switcher for users to your site, and also link the translations in the head area of your site with the link element and rel="alternate and hreflang="it resp. "en". See Google: rel="alternate" hreflang="x"
Are there any services out there, that can parse a website and give some sort of feedback to how search-engine friendly that website is? And perhaps even suggest changes to the mark-up to improve indexing?
Think W3Cs validation services.
Try Google Webmaster Tools. After you add your site, it will often list "problems" with your site, such as duplicate title tags and meta descriptions, and also things like 404 errors.
If you are a GoDaddy customer you can validate web-crawler friendliness on your hosted sites.
Tools to automate alteration of markup code for any objective are a horribly frightful proposition. Simply write your code correctly the first time. If you have archaic code then it likely has many other problems in addition to SEO, and automatically imposing global changes can expose problems you may not be prepared to address.
I love BlogEngine. But from what I can se it does not collect the standard information about the visitors I would like to see (referrer, browser-type and so on).
When I log in as Admin I have a menu item named "Referrer". I can choose a weekday and then I'll be presented with 1 or 2 rows with
"google.com 4 hits, "itmaskinen.se 6 hits" and so on, But that's not what I want to se, I want to se where my visitors come from, country, IP if possible, how many visitors and so on.
If someone of you are familiar with Blogengine.Net and can point me in the right direction to where I would put my own log-code or if you know any visitor-statistic-extension that can do it for me, I would be really happy to know. I prefer an extension, because if I make changes myself to BlogEngine it may break later updates I install.
Blogengine.Net is a blog software made in .Net found here: http://www.dotnetblogengine.net/
And yes, I prefer to take this question here rather then in the Blogengine.Net forum, you know why. ;)
(Anyone, feel free to edit my (bad) english in this post and after that delete this sentence)
This isn't an extension, but it's what I use to collect all my blogengine.net data and it should be upgrade safe.
When you log into the Blogengine.NET admin screens you can go to "Settings> Custome Code > Tracking Script", here you can put your http://www.google.com/analytics/ logging script. Google Analytics provides all the referrer, browser type, etc stuff you were wanting. And what's nice is you can then create additional accounts for other sites if you choose.
I use both Google Analytics and StatCounter to track visitor stats. I find that each one provides useful information that the other doesn't. And they're both free to a certain extent.
I place their javascript code int the site.master file of my custom BE.Net skin.
For Google Analytics I go a step further and pass the username of authenticated users as a custom variable. That way I can match users names up with the stats. To do this you can use the _setVar javascript method on the GA pageTracker like so:
<script type="text/javascript">
var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-129049-25");
var userDefinedValue = '<%= System.Web.Security.Membership.GetUser() != null ? System.Web.Security.Membership.GetUser().UserName : "" %>';
pageTracker._setVar(userDefinedValue);
pageTracker._trackPageview();
</script>
Anyone noticed that we miss all the hits coming from RSS readers? Syndication.axd does not run the analytics javascripts. So we miss the vast majority of viewers from the statistics. And we happily analyze that is just not impotant - ad-hoc visitors.
For the vast majority of cases, Google Analytics does just fine. It all depends on how much data you want. For example, if you want to keep note of IP addresses and resolve them to get domain names, and also highlight all visits to your blog from, say, your coworkers at the company where you work, you'd have to write some custom code yourself. However, it's all fairly primitive - these sorts of things are easily achievable using ASP.NET.
I set up gathering statistics on IIS web site of my BlogEngine instance and then analyze the logs using WebLog Expert - http://www.weblogexpert.com.
It is more reliable than google analytics, since I see really ALL requests that are coming to my IIS, no matter if this is a request to axd or to some static content. And, once I've found out that google was fooling me in the number of visits. After that I trust my IIS statistics much more than google.
There is a Widget which can be use to display Visits and Online Users Statistics.
You can find it from following links:
http://www.nuget.org/packages/Statistics/
http://www.itnerd.ir/post/2013/07/25/Visits-and-Online-Users-Statistics-widget-for-BlogEngine-2
but to see the instructions go to the second link.