How to save meta data of visitor in website/dashboard built with Dash

[matsujju]

Is there any way to save meta data of person visiting in website? like IP address, number of people visited, last time visited etc.

[tphil10]

@matsujju Is your site behind any type of load balancer or even in a container of some kind? I track whose hitting my site within one of those mechanisms.

[matsujju]

This is the link to my website…i don’t think there is any load balancer, I built this whole using Plotly Dash only…so used all kinds of dash components. is there any way using dash components? @adamschroeder @chriddyp

[adamschroeder]

Hi @matsujju,
All the metadata you’re looking for might be challenging to do with Dash components alone, but check out these links. They might give you other ideas.

Dash App - Get User ID

Hello, Is there a way to fire an event (e.g. pull User ID) whenever a user opens an app? I know I can get User ID using the following python code, but I am confused about how to tell Dash to run those functions when a user visits my app? import getpass getpass.getuser() I’m planning on using this UserId together with the login time stamp to track usage on my app. Thanks, Dawn

How to Track Usage in Dash App

I have not done this; this is tough to do. My first thought is to track user interaction events and come up with some arbitrary logic to define what a session’s “start” and “end” are. My next thought isclient-side callbacks or using https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Page_Visibility_API or something similar. My last thought is…Google Analytics can do this for you.

Good luck,