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Thanks! In a central database. It does not save your historical data, only the latest updated counter value.

Some time ago I was looking something like this, really. And how can I count clicks on a button with HTML/JS, is it OK?:

<button><a href="https://counting.world/api/set/value?name=My counter&secret=MYSECRET&value=1">PRESS ME</a></button>

Your example would always set the counter to 1 and not increment it. From what I understood you would like to set the counter to "current value" + 1. Unfortunately there is no API at the moment to retrieve the current value. Task for the next version. Thanks for the idea!

As a side note this would also trigger a navigation away from your site not something you probably want. You should be doing this behind the scenes with JS.

You could look into https://countapi.xyz/. You won't get the displaying part but there's an API for your use case.

Thanks! Exactly, "current value" + 1 is a "must have"

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