# How to show number of downloads for an attachment?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-show-number-of-downloads-for-an-attachment/164788>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [September 22, 2020, 2:30am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-show-number-of-downloads-for-an-attachment/164788 "2020-09-22T02:30:10Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 29, 2020, 3:25am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-show-number-of-downloads-for-an-attachment/164788/2 "2020-10-29T03:25:31Z")

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I was also searching for this answer, then re-read the linked topic and others that referenced something like an attachment counter.

They are talking about topic links counter, which I suppose was used back then to directly link to attachments, but I think this isn’t done this way anymore.

On the linked topic above they’re testing clicks on an attachment which is actually a link to CloudFront, while AFAIK currently new attachments are proxied through a `[instance]/uploads/short-url/[hash].[ext]` route.

That said, I really think this is hugely useful and I’d also like to know if this is something planned to be supported on Discourse - using this upload route to increment an attachment counter and show this counter beside the attachment link, just like external links.

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