Looking for a download counter

[whims]

Not after a file download manager, just want something easy and pretty non fuss

Simply want to be able to show number of hits/clicks for a download link on a page or post,
to show number of times a file has been downloaded

Each post has a single download link.. each download link though is a different url

Suggestions?

Thanks
Whims

[bambo]

Not really but based on the clever heads at WA Simple URLs http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/simple-urls/ seem worthy of a test.

Rarst says it cant do anything about direct links but I guess you can avoid hotlink behavior?

I translate "It stores click counts in the form of a custom field " in to option of showing count in post. Some conditonal hook box magic I imagine.

[whims]

I can track the actual link clicks/downloads... either via google analytics or piwik

Hotlinking im not concerned with as I'm putting the files on amazon s3 and I've setup a bucket policy so as files cannot be hotlinked

What i want to be able to do is show site visitors how many times that particular file has been downloaded

eg say i had statcounter setup on a website then i could show a visual page counter to show how many times a page had been visited.

I dont want to show page visits though.. i want to show the file downloads.

[bambo]

I see, but plugin could still be used just because it lets you handle counter or what they say here http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3...ific-s3-object

They talk about parsing log file from S3 as to get numbers. Does not sound like fun unless someone has made a plugin for that, seems like it should be easier but perhaps security is so tight you cant just scrape away.

Does GA not let you show data on site? I dont know anything about it but if it has data already there is no need for extras.

[whims]

Does GA not let you show data on site? I dont know anything about it but if it has data already there is no need for extras.

You can show basic data but only in aggregate of like overall site visitors, not of particular downloads

[bambo]

Ok. Well I vote tricking complexity of S3 with a little WP plugin like Simple URLs Cant find a thing one .org site. Seems odd since this should be highly requested feature. Could be because it is not possible of course.

Too much API and SDK info on their forum https://forums.aws.amazon.com/index.jspa?categoryID=1 for me to consume. They do talk of counters but in another language.

Try PM Amazon users from here http://catalysttheme.com/forum/showt...ghlight=amazon Cant be one has to reinvent the wheel for a little counter so they might know how-to.

[whims]

Thanks for pointing me back to that thread.. hadnt thought of asking there

[bambo]

Your favorite Italian WP dev. has a plugin called Cimy Counter http://www.marcocimmino.net/cimy-wor.../cimy-counter/

Perhaps worth a test. Seems he is persistent as first release was in 2007 http://www.marcocimmino.net/cimy-wor...and-changelog/

Added external white list URLs so is again possible to redirect outside current domain

means it works with Amazon links?

[whims]

thanks bambo :-)))

had spied that in passing however not had a chance to have a look at it yet.