keeping track of affiliate earnings?

[freydaddy]

does anyone know of a program that you can automatically track your earnings with? without all the hassle of logging in to each one seperatley?

[texignweb]

Funny you asked... I wondered if creating such a program would be possible a couple days ago. I am pretty sure there is no kind of program like this.

[freydaddy]

if you create it, ill buy it!! lol easy said then done

[texignweb]

Well I don't think something like that would work unless the affiliate programs subscribe and allow to feed their info into my program's database. Possible but I don't have any time at the moment for a project like that. I would def. love to see someone develop something like this!

[kreutz]

You can just scrape the websites. You'd probably want to ask the affiliate programs for permission, but otherwise you can just set the user agent of the program to be Internet Explorer or something.

Two secs, I'll try to write some sample code for party.

[kreutz]

#!perl -w

use strict;
use WWW::Mechanize;

my $mech = WWW::Mechanize->new(autocheck=>1);
$mech->get("https://mis.iglobalmedia.com/affiliates/account/beneficiary-login.htm");
$mech->form_name("f1");
$mech->set_visible("your_username", "your_password");
$mech->submit();

$mech->get("https://mis.iglobalmedia.com/affiliates/stats_summary.htm");
print $mech->content();

Now you have the source code of the stats page availible. Then you can parse your stats out of it, and possibly add some code to fill out the form at the bottom of the page and so on.

This is of course just a sample, and not user friendly at all (most people on here won't even be able to get it to run ), but I might be interested in creating a real program for this. I'd need some guaranteed customers or something, though, as it is not something you can make overnight.

[GoodKarmaKid]

Easiest solution is: Stats remote, but it costs about $30 a month.

It works good for a lot of affiliate programs but currently isn't working very well with party poker.

[Holis]

Nice find...

My wife might want to subscribe

[MilanFlyer]

Anybody tried Stats Remote?
Any good?
Reliable?

[GoodKarmaKid]

I have, and it is really good at the automation and going out and grabbing the stats. All the data is encrypted on your own hard drive, so pretty unlikely that it would be a security issue.

It can download the stats from about 3000 different affiliate programs.

My only real complaint is that I would like it to be a little more customizable, and it doesn't seem to be working correctly with Party Poker right now.

The other thing that is a slight pain in the ass, is that it uses microsofts virtual java machine as opposed to Java.

But it is the best resource I have found for bulk retrieval of stats.


Jason