How to log Google searches?

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In my survey I am trying to find out how people search to verify information. I want to have a search bar in my question which records the searches and saves them to a data field I can access when I do my data analysis. Ideally, I would also be able to log the links they click through on for each search, but I have no idea how to approach this. I have managed to code a search bar that opens a new tab of the google search onclick, and I have a JS function which appends each search in a local JS array, but I can't access those variables in the analysis. Does anyone know if this is possible/how I could do this?This is the code I already have:Search bar:﻿SearchJS:arr = [];function userInput(){    var input = document.getElementById("userInput").value;    arr.push(input);    Qualtrics.SurveyEngine.QuestionData.addEmbeddedData(url_list, arr); //tried to save as embedded data﻿    Qualtrics.SurveyEngine.QuestionData.setEmbeddedData(url_list, arr); //but doesn't work    return arr;}Thanks

ahmedA · Answer

Remove the onclick event from HTML and make the following changes to the question JS:document.getElementById("submit").onclick=function(){userInput()};arr=[];functionuserInput(){varinput=document.getElementById("userInput").value;arr.push(input);//seEmbeddedDatadoesn'tneedQuestionData//ThenameoftheEmbeddedDatavariableneedstobepassedasastring//Inyoucase,itwastryingtoparsethevalueofurl_list,whichwasundefinedQualtrics.SurveyEngine.setEmbeddedData("url_list",arr);}

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