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Amazon Associates bookmarklet

March 14, 2006

Amazon Associates bookmarklet

Many moons ago, I wrote a bookmarklet that makes it easy to build an Amazon referrer link for the item you’re currently viewing, stripping out all the cruft and crap that are in their default URLs, ready to paste into a blog or email.

Amazon have changed their URL styles a couple of times since then, and although I tweaked my personal bookmarklet, I never updated the one hosted here. An email today prompted me to sort this out.

So for your viewing pleasure, here’s the latest version of the bookmarklet. Drag it onto your toolbar, edit it to change the referrer ID from mine to yours, browse to an Amazon page, and click it to get a cruft-free referrer-fee-activated link.

Amazon.com Bookmarklet

I’ve tested it in Firefox 1.5 and IE 6. Let me know if you have any problems.

UPDATE: It don’t work in Safari. I’ve had a quick nosey, and it’s just chucking out “Parse error”. I may or may not fix this depending on whether or not I can be arsed. Also, most feedreaders are mangling the Javascript. Try viewing this page on my website (I know… how 2002!) to get the bookmarklet.


Comments

On Sunday, April 9, 2006, JJMG commented:

This! Is! So! Cool!

Mostly because using the Associates UI for building links is an exercise in masochism.

I also have a bunch of xsl stylesheets I use to convert ISBNs directly into script or html with associates code attached, to paste directly into my blog (e.g. to paste in a table of books with prices and percentages off etc.), but that's inconvenient too. There's got to be a better way to suck all this information together ...


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