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Shirane85
Shirane85

Reputation: 2295

Firebase DynamicLinks - Can i see analytics of link created by the new buildShortDynamicLink API?

I'm using the new buildShortDynamicLink API of Firebase (And it's great). And i see there are two methodes for the ShortDynamicLink result:

Uri shortLink = task.getResult().getShortLink();
Uri flowchartLink = task.getResult().getPreviewLink();

I tried to use both but still the link doesn't apear in the Firebase dashboard.
What is getPreviewLink used for anyway?

Thanks.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 507

Answers (2)

objectivejay
objectivejay

Reputation: 46

Only analytics for links created in the console will show up in the console.

You can still access the analytics for your short links created via the API by using the Firebase Dynamic Links Rest API as described here (https://firebase.google.com/docs/reference/dynamic-links/analytics).

The getPreview returns the url to a visual flowchart that helps illustrate clearly how the link will work in each context. You can use it to debug the link if you want and to visually see how it will behave in different contexts.

Full disclosure: I work for Firebase.

Upvotes: 3

Alex Bauer
Alex Bauer

Reputation: 13613

This is expected. Only links created through the dashboard will show up there.

Think about it from this perspective: when your users are creating hundreds or even thousands of links per day, it will quickly make the dashboard completely useless if they all show up there.

At Branch.io (full disclosure: I'm on the Branch team), we take the same approach by default, though we do offer a manual flag you can change on programmatically-generated links to have them show up on the dashboard if desired.

Upvotes: -1

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