Re: [Net-amazon-devel] Patch to append AssiciateTag

[Christopher B. <bou...@gm...>]

Thank-you very much!  I will review it, and add it to the github repository.


Thanks,
Christopher


On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 1:56 PM, Martin Meyer <ma...@ch...> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Amazon has an Affiliates/Associates program which allows you to
> receive credit for clicks followed through to Amazon. It is possible
> to have Amazon automatically generate links for you with your Amazon
> Associates tracking ID attached, but to do so you must append an
> AssociateTag attribute to your original request. I am currently doing
> a string replacement in the URLs Amazon returns to insert my tracking
> id in place of the default one they return.
>
> I have attached a patch which takes 'tracking_id' as a new constructor
> hash option and (if present) appends it to the Amazon request as the
> 'AssociateTag' parameter. I have updated the documentation as well to
> reflect the change.
>
> For more info about this, check out
> http://affiliate-program.amazon.com (the program website). This is
> mentioned specifically in the 'best practices' guide for the Product
> Advertising API
> (http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/entry.jspa?externalID=1057
> ).
> It is documented in the Product Advertising API Developer Guild
> (
> http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/entry.jspa?externalID=3426&categoryID=19
> ).
> You can find it on page 88 of the PDF in a section titled "General,
> Optional Parameters".
>
> I hope this patch is useful and that I didn't just overlook this
> functionality in the module... Please CC me on responses b/c I'm not
> signed up for the list.
>
> Thanks,
> Martin Meyer
>
>
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