Get recently viewed products programmatically in Magento 2.2.2

Question

I am trying to fetch recently viewed products.

I tried to implement the provided code from here but did not get any success.

Answer 1

Try below code in your template file for get recently viewed products in any place,

<?php echo $this->getLayout()
            ->createBlock("Magento\Reports\Block\Product\Widget\Viewed")
            ->setDisplayType("recently.view.products")
            ->setProductsCount("6")
            ->setTemplate("widget/viewed/content/viewed_list.phtml")
            ->toHtml(); 
 ?>

You can change setProductsCount() as you need.

Answer 2

With this custom code, you can also get a most viewed products

  public function __construct(
        \Magento\Reports\Model\ResourceModel\Product\CollectionFactory $reportCollectionFactory,   
        \Magento\Store\Model\StoreManagerInterface $storeManager   

    ){
        $this->reportCollectionFactory = $reportCollectionFactory;
        $this->storeManager = $storeManager;
    }


public function getMostViewedProducts()
{
      $storeId =  $this->storeManager->getStore()->getId();

      $collection = $this->reportCollectionFactory->create()
            ->addAttributeToSelect(
                '*'
            )->addViewsCount()->setStoreId(
                    $storeId
            )->addStoreFilter(
                    $storeId
            );
      $items = $collection->getItems();
      return $items;
}

Answer 3

You can get recently view product by below code

protected $recentlyViewed;

public function __construct(
...
    \Magento\Reports\Block\Product\Viewed $recentlyViewed
) {
...
    $this->recentlyViewed = $recentlyViewed;
}

/**
 * Get recently viewed products for the customer
 *
 */
public function getMostRecentlyViewed(){
    return $this->recentlyViewed->getItemsCollection();
}

Answer 4

protected $recentlyViewed;

public function __construct(
...
    \Magento\Reports\Block\Product\Viewed $recentlyViewed
) {
...
    $this->recentlyViewed = $recentlyViewed;
}

/**
 * Get recently viewed products for the customer
 *
 */
public function getMostRecentlyViewed(){

    return $this->recentlyViewed->getItemsCollection();

}

This code is working and it'll return according to customer session.

If you disabled Full Page cache then it'll display recently viewed prdocuts.

You need to set cacheable="false" for custom block. Please let me know if you still face same issue.