![]() Some of this is boilerplate, some is specific to my affiliate account, and some is specific to the item. The affiliate URL will look something like this I’d like to get rid of the initial copying of the link, but I’m not sure how to extract the product link from iTunes or the Mac App Store through a script. No searching, no choosing of item type, no extra clicking of any kind. This is the abbreviation for my TextExpander shell script snippet (a Python script, actually) that transforms the link on the clipboard into an affiliate link and replaces store with it.ĭone. I switch to wherever I want the affiliate link to go (typically TextMate) and type store. What I now have on the clipboard is not an affiliate link, but it contains the information necessary to make one. If I’m in iTunes or the Mac App Store, I click the little popup menu and choose Copy Link. I start on a product page in Safari (on the Preview page), iTunes, or the Mac App Store. With my TextExpander snippet, the workflow is much faster. I have to enter a search term, choose the product type from a popup, click the Search button to do the search, pick the product from the list of search results-sometimes it’s at the top often it isn’t-and, finally, copy the link URL. I’d rather work directly from the product page in iTunes or the App Store. I have to go to the Link Maker page in my browser.It’s not a bad service, but there are two things I don’t like about it: The standard way to get an affiliate link is to use Apple’s Link Maker tool, a web page that lets you search for items in the Stores and generates links for them. It could be adapted to other programs, but I haven’t done that. ![]() ![]() There are affiliate programs for people in other countries, but what I’m describing here works only for LinkShare accounts. Certain unique parts of your affiliate URL will be tied to your account. If you want to be an affiliate, you’ll have to establish an account with them. In the US, Apple’s affiliate program is administered through LinkShare. It does this through something called an affiliate link, a special URL which, when followed, both takes the user to the proper page on the store and tells Apple that you sent them there. Like Amazon and many other online retailers, Apple has an affiliates program whereby you can get a commission on products Apple sells if you steer someone to its online store to buy them. Let’s start by describing what an affiliate link is. It’s a bottom-up rewrite of a workflow I described last week that’s more accurate and more flexible. This is a relatively simple way to get affiliate links to Apple’s digital offerings: Mac apps, iOS apps, songs, albums, ebooks, audiobooks, movies, TV shows-anything Apple sells through iTunes or the Mac App Store. Next post Previous post Apple affiliate links via TextExpander
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