MegaShopBot and Adblock with Google Analytics Rule

bonzer

MegaShopBot hasn't worked for me in a while. Just thought I'd let you know I've worked out the cause in case anyone else is having the same problem.

I use Firefox with the popular AdBlock Plus extension and have the rule *.google-analytics.* to block Google Analytics. If you have this rule enabled, it causes MegaShopBot to fail (it just displays blank results).

I haven't fully investigated it but think the underlying problem may possibly be this call in the function setTabOn which is found in "results.js". pageTracker is undefined when analytics is blocked. I think if you wrap this in a try/catch it'll then probably work. It may be worth you doing this as blocking Google Analytics is probably fairly common.

pageTracker._trackEvent( window.jsAnalyticsCategory, botName, window.jsAnalyticsSearchText)