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Launch Library Parser – A library parser that detects potential problems, allows you to search for specific code, and see visualizations from the library’s dependencies.
Launch Library Parser is a development tool developed by Urs Boller. Thanks a lot to Urs Boller for developing this tool.
Launch Library Parser can be used to detect whether your deployment is correct, and you can adjust it according to the error.
URL used: https://launch-parser.com/
Features of Launch Library Parser
check quality
The Launch Library Parser inspects your Adobe Launch library to detect possible problems during implementation. Get a summary table with all warnings and errors for your library.
search content
The Launch Library Parser allows to search for any item or code in your library.Get the results in a nice interface for easy recognition of the search results.
see dependencies
With the visualizations of your Adobe Launch library you are able to see the dependencies. Check all rules that get triggered by a single event and much more.
the problem
Using a tag manager like “Launch, by Adobe” gives you almost endless possibilities. Adobe did a really great job with the new tool! There are not only a lot of public extensions to install, everybody can create a private one.
But the more options, the bigger is the complexity of the tool and the final javascript libraries. If there are more than a dozen and hundreds of rules in a single library, how can anybody be sure that everything works as expeceted?
the solution
The idea of a public website for a “Launch Library Parser” was based on a “proof of concept” using an Excel file. This parser is completely built out of nothing using different public and private libraries (written by the author) to check and display the different libraries.
The parser will never be perfect, but it was already very helpful during the tests to detect mistakes before going public.
the future
The parser was written using a small number of libraries. There are a lot more ways on how you can use “Launch, by Adobe” and finally get a completely different javascript library. That means, the more new situations appear, the more checks can be written.
How to use?
Quality
The most important report is this. Just look at the Quality Check Result to know the deployment situation. My Quality Check Result: 99%, a very high score. The only error is The library is not self-hosted (hosting managed by Adobe). I use the official one.
Each can be opened by clicking and it will prompt you why it is wrong.
Content
It mainly displays some configurations. You can use this to analyze what tracking others’ websites have done and which data elements to set …
Dependencies
Visually display the relationship between data elements, rules, and extensions, and you can know the data elements
