How do I use the JS API?

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In some cases, it may be necessary for you to manually prevent scripts from loading in order to block cookies. For example, embedding a video with JS that has cookies. CookieScan has a JS API available to you in order to check for a users consent in JS.

To turn on the API:

1. Log into the CookieScan portal at cookiescan.com
2. Click “manage domain” on your domain
3. Scroll to “Pop-Up Settings”, turn on the “Switch On JavaScript API” switch and click “Save and update” at the bottom

This will now make a JS Object available to you on your site

To use the API:

You can use these variables in order to do things depending on what a user has accepted, for example if you have a YouTube video that you know includes marketing and consent cookies. You can use a simple if statement to only load that video if the user has provided consent for both categories.

      if(cookieScan.consent.marketing &&  cookieScan.consent.statistics){ 
          //load youtube video here
      }