How to set up env varraible for google analytics

[tvdboom]

Hi,

I want to add Google Analytics tracking to mkdocs.yml but I don't want to publsih my token. After some research I saw that you do it yourself like this:
property: !ENV GOOGLE_ANALYTICS_KEY

but you also asked this same question here (although this was in 2017) and answered that it should be done like this:
- !!python/object/apply:os.getenv ["GOOGLE_ANALYTICS_TOKEN"]

Which one should I use and where do I store the actual token? I know I can add it to GitHub Secrets but not sure if !ENV is going to read from there.

[jaceklaskowski]

It should now be as follows:

property: !ENV GOOGLE_ANALYTICS_KEY

[tvdboom]

And where do I store the actual value of the key?

[jorge-campo]

Hey @tvdboom, just saw your question while looking for another thing.

I guess you can use:

• GitHub secrets to store the Google Analytics key value (see Encrypted secrets).
• The env: environment variable in the mkdocs.yml configuration file (see the example for the GH_TOKEN variable in the Material for MkDocs docs here).

[tvdboom]

Hi, thanks for answering. The example for the GH_TOKEN variable in the Material for MkDocs docs here refers to a GitHub Action, not the mkdocs.yml file. I don't use GitHub Action to deploy the website. How can I access the secret from the mkdocs.yml file?

[jorge-campo]

You're right! The example refers to a GitHub Action; I'm sorry for mixing these two things.

We don't use GitHub Actions either; we use Jenkins. And we use a Jenkins environment variable for passing the GH_TOKEN value to the build script. If this is not your case, this discussion may be helpful: #3863 (reply in thread).