Any API/platform that converts any URL to affiliate links?

by Cristian

Is there any affiliate network that has an API for converting any given URL to an affiliate link (whenever possible)?

Let's say it's US only and I have 6 links, from:

All links marked with [Y] should be converted to affiliate links using their respective affiliate programs. That is, if anyone buys using that link, I would receive a comission for the sale. I assume the aggregation platform would also take a cut out from that comission.

Is there any playform that aggregates all of them and exposes an API, without having to make individual contracts/accounts for each affiliate network?

I am asking this, because finding all stores that have affiliate programs and setting up accounts, learning their API (if they have one) would be really time consuming and prone to errors. Also the discoverability of such affiliate programs is an issue.

Cristian

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on January 13, 2020

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You need to look at https://skimlinks.com/ there's an API that can do exactly what you want, it takes an E-commerce URL and transform it to an affiliate URL.

They work with 50k + stores!

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  Thanks, this looks like what I was looking for!
  
  One thing I didn't really find on their site is if they have an API and how it can be used, most of their documentation only talks about adding a JS snippet to the page, but I guess I can reverse-engineer to see what API calls it makes to convert the links.
  
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    Hey did you look at this: https://developers.skimlinks.com/link.html ?
    
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      Oh yeah, that looks simple enough. I looked for the API documentation but couldn't find this link.
      
      I am not planning to use this at the moment, but I was working on a platform for a specific country and thought about making it global, but I needed a way to monetize the links without going through all the possible affiliate networks out there.
      
      I think this would be good enough to get started, even though a lot of local affiliate networks (for specific countries) are missing.
      
      Thanks a lot for the info!
      
      XCS
      
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