[BUG] click on st.toggle then pages_view become 1

[bitcometz]

When I first click the Chinese/English button to switch, the total_pageviews in the JSON file resets to 1. Later, when I click the Chinese/English button again, the total_pageviews increments by 1. How can I prevent the total_pageviews from resetting? Below is my code

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import streamlit as st
import gettext
import streamlit_analytics2 as streamlit_analytics
import warnings
import json

warnings.filterwarnings("ignore")

st.set_page_config(
    page_title="Hello",
    page_icon="👋",
)

analytics_file = "./web_stats.json"
with streamlit_analytics.track(save_to_json=analytics_file):

    with open(analytics_file, "r") as f:
        analytics_data = json.load(f)
        visits = analytics_data['total_pageviews']

    if 'language' not in st.session_state:
        st.session_state.language = 'en'

    on = st.toggle("中文")
    if on:
        st.session_state.language = "zh"
    else:
        st.session_state.language = "en"

    lang = gettext.translation('app', localedir='locales', languages=[st.session_state.language])
    _ = lang.gettext

    st.write(_('# Welcome to BioInz! 👋'))
    st.markdown(
        """
        {bioinz_description}.
        {select_demo}.
        ### {our_focus}
        - DNA
        - RNA
        - Protein
        """.format(
            bioinz_description = _("BioInz is an bioinformatics hubs"),
            select_demo        = _("**👈 Select a demo from the sidebar** to see some examples"),
            our_focus          = _("Our focus"), 
        )
    )

    st.sidebar.write("Select ......")
    st.sidebar.write(f"Page views: {visits}")

[444B]

Hi! I think this is unfortunately a feature of SA2 as it will add +1 to a widget count upon each widget use and the way that streamlit operates is that it runs the script on every run and the first run initializes the counter at 1
I think a few months ago we used to minus 1 from the initial counter to account for that but I recall it getting changed for some reason

Ill run your code in a few mins

[444B]

Hmmm, struggling to get the code to run as I dont have the translation file but there are some fixes I could suggest:

1. initialize the number of visit to 0

analytics_file = "./web_stats.json"
visits = 0  # Default value

2. Check if file exists and has content before reading

if os.path.exists(analytics_file) and os.path.getsize(analytics_file) > 0: ~

3. Then open the file once it exists:

    with open(analytics_file, "r") as f:
        analytics_data = json.load(f)
        visits = analytics_data.get('total_pageviews', 0)

with streamlit_analytics.track(save_to_json=analytics_file):
# Rest of code

Let me know if that works for you. I had to fight with the code a little as I dont have the translation file but I got it to work for me or as I think you expect it to work