Affiliate

Affiliate is a platform agnostic link affiliator. Simplify affiliating links with automatic affiliation in the browser. Affiliate works with libraries that mutate the DOM after the page loads, including React.

Installation

$ npm install --save affiliate
$ yarn add affiliate

Or use a CDN

<!-- Replace 2.0.2 with your intended version -->
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/affiliate@2.0.2/dist/affiliate.js"></script>

What It Can Do

Affiliate can modify the following link into any of the others.

<a href="https://example.com/shop/product/item-id">Original</a>

<a href="https://example.com/shop/product/item-id?ref=my-tag">New Query Tags</a>
<a href="https://example.com/shop/product/item-id/ref/my-tag">Modified URL Path</a>
<a href="https://my-tag.example.com/shop/product/item-id">Modified Host Name</a>

Affiliate has easy plugins, including one for Amazon, which simplify adding affiliate links even more.

Basic Setup

Read the documentation for more advanced usage.

const Affiliate = require('affiliate');
const aff = Affiliate({
    tags: [
        {
            hosts: ['example.com', 'www.example.com'],
            query: {
                ref: 'my-tag' // This means ?ref=my-tag
            }
        },
        {
            hosts: ['example.org', 'shop.example.org'],
            query: {
                tag: 'my-tag2' // This means ?tag=my-tag2
            }
        }
    ]
});
aff.attach();

Documentation

Affiliate is simple and quick to set up, even for more complex usage. Read the docs at: affiliate.js.org.

Blogs and Related Sites

A simplified codeless solution might better suit some blogging-style sites.

Insert this code into the page <head>. The contents of the data-aff attribute will tell Affiliate what to do.

<!-- Replace 2.0 with your intended version -->
<script data-aff="amazon.com, www.amazon.com : tag = MY-AMAZON-TAG" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/affiliate@2.0/dist/affiliate.js" async id="aff-js"></script>

data-aff Syntax

The syntax for data-aff is a comma separated list of domains, a colon, and then comma separated list of url queries in the format key=value. Multiple website groups can be separated by an exclamation mark.

amazon.com, www.amazon.com : tag = MY-AMAZON-TAG ! example.com, shop.example.com : ref = MY-OTHER-TAG

Testing

Affiliate is tested using Jasmine. The test for the minified package is available here and an example webpack package here.

Big Thanks

Cross-browser Testing Platform and Open Source <3 Provided by Sauce Labs!

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License

MIT (C) Russell Steadman. Learn more in the LICENSE file.

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