Travel Bug ™ Stat Display Tip

Do you want to watch all the participants of a Travel Bug ™ race in one place? Want to spotlight your trackables on your caching profile or other webpage?

This tip will display the name of the trackable, whether it’s in a Geocache or cacher’s inventory, the name of the Geocache or cacher that has possession, the Bug Image, and total miles the trackable has traveled.

NOTE: This tip works for trackables that have a Bug Image set on its webpage.  Don’t worry, we’ll show you how!

Set the Bug Image:Travel Bug Stat Display Geocaching Name

  1. Login to your Geocaching.com account.
  2. Click on your caching name.
  3. Locate Trackable Items and click on Yours.
  4. Click on the name of the trackable you want to spotlight.Travel Bug Stat Display (Yours)
  5. Click on Edit This Trackable.
  6. Copy (CTRL-C) the GUID (only the number portion) in the URL of the page to your clipboard.  See photo for location.
  7. Click on the drop down to select an image (Or click Upload Image to choose a file from Travel Bug Stat Displayyour computer & check the default image box).
  8. Click on Submit Changes.
  9. Insert what you copied to the clipboard into this HTML statement (replace the bolded GUID with your GUID.Travel Bug GUID

<img src=”http://img.geocaching.com/stats/tb.aspx?guid=8679f3e4-7f3c-4d60-8129-49ef4aa9c0f2“>

5.  Insert this statement onto any webpage or your profile page to track the stats of the provide trackable.

Here’s what our example looks like:

If you want to keep up with multiple trackables,  just use the above HTML statement for each one and include the unique GUID for each.

<img alt=”” src=”http://img.geocaching.com/stats/tb.aspx?guid=40d7833a-c09d-4050-b970-04ce7a233529” /><img alt=”” src=”http://img.geocaching.com/stats/tb.aspx?guid=071037b3-86ef-4d1b-ad0f-edd1a7ec8232” />

Here’s what the above HTML looks like: