Dynamically Create Amazon Links to use your associate id

This one is in beta gang. Amazon seems to like to change their link style every two minutes.

What it does: It takes any link to Amazon pages on your forum and modifies the link on the fly to use your associate id. This one should make you some money - it generally works very well for my forum around Christmas time.

No screenshots. You know what an Amazon link looks like

I am offereing this one with limited support. I will get it working as well as possible - in other words, correctly transforming as many links as possible. But, I can't promise it will get every link because of differences between the different vbulletin message editors, etc.

Amy

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This hack will always be free, however your donations are kindly accepted and will help towards further development. If you donate, please leave me some info (either your forum site or username at vB.org) so that I can thank you.

[dastar]

Originally Posted by amykhar

It seems to on my site contrary to earlier reports that the link format has changed.

Actually, the link formatting for some categories did change, but I think this hack still works. Not sure why some categories changed.

[Phillip Chapman]

Very nice hack. I do have a question for those who have been using it.

Is the hack smart enough to not change a link that already has your associates ID present?

Does this work on old posts or only on messages that are posted after the hack has been installed?

[Phillip Chapman]

Originally Posted by Phillip Chapman

Very nice hack. I do have a question for those who have been using it.

Is the hack smart enough to not change a link that already has your associates ID present?

Does this work on old posts or only on messages that are posted after the hack has been installed?

Just wanted to bump this up in case anyone can help answer these questions.

[amykhar]

1. Yes. It won't change your current affiliate links.
2. This version only works on new messages. The 3.0 version worked on all of them. Jelsoft changed the way urls are parsed - hence the change.

[Tralala]

Is anyone else here running Psionic Vision's Advanced Plugin Manager v2?

I ask because when I enable that, "Create Amazon Links" disappears from my list of plugins and I therefore can no longer disable/enable it:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...371#post952371

It's completely reproducible here, even on a clean vB 3.5.4 install. Wondering what might be different about amykhar's hack that would cause it to not appear, when using that Advanced Plugin Manager.

[daFish]

Hi there amykhar.

This Add-on is really great, but we're currently in trouble, because there seems to be a new kind of link for amazon.

The link syntax is the following:

http://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B000GJ0IPM/AFFILICODE

This on isn't corrected with your hack, so is there any chance to get this working?

Best regards,
Marcus

[amykhar]

Amazon keeps changing link formats on me. I can't promise I'll get to it any time soon.

[StarBuG]

Are you still supporting this hack?

I run a german forum (3.6.2 -> will this work on 3.6.x too?) and you only replace amazon.com links.
Could you add amazon.de links as well for the replacement?

Maybe you could also provide some infos where you define the links in your hack and how to adapt them ourself.

Would that be possible?

StarBuG

[Tralala]

Originally Posted by StarBuG

Could you add amazon.de links as well for the replacement?

This hack does that:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=119220

[Markith]

does anyone know if this hack still works and is supported by amazon?? will it work with other sites such as buy.com??? Thanks!