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(function(){
    var aff = 'w3clubs-20';
    if (!document.getElementById('ASIN')) {
        alert('Can\'t find the product ID');
        return;
    }
    var asin = document.getElementById('ASIN').value;
    prompt(
        'Here is the link:',
        'http://www.amazon.com/dp/' + asin + '/?tag=' + aff);
})()

32 Responses to “Short Amazon affiliate links – a bookmarklet”

1. Wendy Says:
   January 22nd, 2009 at 6:02 pm

   Thanks for the bookmarklet. It is really useful.

2. Slavi Says:
   May 10th, 2009 at 3:27 pm

   I would like to add that this worked for me

   http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0340859490?tag=SOME_AFF_ID

   this is linking to a product by ISBN (10 chars)

3. Kathy Says:
   June 11th, 2009 at 3:46 am

   Works for me, too. Thanks for a nifty little tool.

4. JN Says:
   July 6th, 2009 at 12:10 pm

   Will this work for MP3 links that use flash? They are over 500 characters.

5. Mugger Says:
   July 8th, 2009 at 11:49 am

   For several years, I have asked Amazon for help on making a shorter link, such as might be cloaked in some fashion. They never told me about the short form you describe.
   Since your short form lacks parameters in the standard generated link, do I safely get sales credit?

6. Mugger Says:
   July 8th, 2009 at 11:59 am

   By the way, how do I use your code example?

7. Stoyan Says:
   July 8th, 2009 at 2:11 pm

   Should be fine with the sales credit, but do test, don’t take my word for it.

   To use the code, check the “Install the bookmarklet” section of the post.

   Let me know if you have any troubles.

   Thanks,
   Stoyan

8. Mugger Says:
   July 8th, 2009 at 4:02 pm

   Still not complete understanding of script, but can do manually.
   Thanks.

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10. shamy Says:
    September 6th, 2009 at 11:02 am

    Here we are Abercrombie & Fitch Clothing retailer,sell a lot of abercrombie clothing, there may be many products suitable for you.welcome for you to come!

11. Paul Bright Says:
    September 8th, 2009 at 1:08 am

    Works great for me,

    Thanks for that, it has saved me a lot of time

    Paul Bright

12. dromenon Says:
    October 26th, 2009 at 1:56 am

    it works great and goes to the proper page but when i check it at the amazon link checker i get this:

    Link Tagging Results
    Fail: The link above was not tagged or was not a valid Amazon link.

    how will this effect getting commissions?

13. James Says:
    December 13th, 2009 at 4:56 am

    Works for me when I change the affiliate tag to my own. If you’re getting the ‘fail’ message, be sure that you’re entering your associate tag or sub-tag correctly. I received that message when I spelled my tag incorrectly, but received the success message after fixing the spelling error.

14. Sylvia Says:
    January 4th, 2010 at 10:39 pm

    Genius! Thank you thank you, I think this will put years on my life.

15. christine Says:
    April 14th, 2010 at 11:10 am

    I feel silly asking this, but when I check my link, it looks like it’s taking people shopping under my name —- the page says welcome Christine at the top. Is that correct?

16. Toys Says:
    May 14th, 2010 at 10:52 am

    Is it possible not to use node and associate tag as a parameters (not to use “?” and “&” characters in URLs) and still be able to link to the proper Amazon nodes like toys and games, or others with correct associate tag?

17. mcgees.org Says:
    September 29th, 2010 at 5:39 am

    Lovely. You saved me a bit of coding just now. :-p

18. Infrared Camera Says:
    December 4th, 2010 at 2:53 am

    so far the best affiliate program for me is Amazon Affiliate. they have high tier rates and great payout ,;-

19. James Says:
    December 5th, 2010 at 7:44 am

    I don’t know now how many format we can do but I normally do this format dp/asin/tag. short and easy for me…

20. Maxi Dresses Says:
    December 15th, 2010 at 5:58 am

    Hi

    I understand the concept of it but some how it will not work on my site. I will try again later using james method.

    Great post

    Happy Holidays

21. Francis Tapon Says:
    January 9th, 2011 at 1:20 pm

    Do you really need the

    ?tag=

    part? When you delete that part, it still goes to the dp page. However, I don’t know if it really tracks the link.

    As anyone verified that it works with the ?tag= part in it?

22. valpintail Says:
    February 27th, 2011 at 8:02 am

    Is your bookmarklet still up to date as I would like to use it. Unused to html, just want to get a link to Amazon, which seems so much more difficult than when I add other affiliate codes on my webpages.

23. Megan Brennek Says:
    March 8th, 2011 at 3:00 pm

    Can you tell me how to install this for Google Chrome?

24. KLS Says:
    March 9th, 2011 at 1:37 am

    Hi Stoyan,

    Thanks for the bookmarklet, its really useful.

    However, by any chance you’ll do an update of a shorter url since amzn.com now works, perhaps an automated script to churn it out would be great? Thanks.

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    May 29th, 2011 at 3:36 pm

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26. Sunil Manheri Says:
    June 7th, 2011 at 12:46 pm

    Nice tool! I was planning to implement similar tool to generate affiliate link. Thanks.

27. ThisIsWhyImBroke Says:
    June 29th, 2011 at 3:53 pm

    Thank you for this tool! I am updating all my old extremely long affiliate links now!

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29. Joe McCarthy Says:
    September 29th, 2011 at 1:20 pm

    I hate the complex URIs generated for Amazon Associates by the Amazon scripts, so this simplified version is very helpful.

    You mentioned the longer-form base URI that includes a hyphenated version of the product title, which is an aspect I always like to include in the links I embed in my blog posts.

    I’ve never written any Javascript before, but a little browsing around and using the Firefox Web Console, I believe the following variation on the script you provide, substituting

    document.getElementById(‘ASIN’).baseURI

    for

    ‘http://www.amazon.com/dp/‘ + document.getElementById(‘ASIN’)

    should do the trick.

    Here’s the complete JavaScript bookmarklet, modified from the Amazon aff bookmarklet code you provide above:

    javascript:(function(){var%20aff%20=%20′w3clubs-20′;%20if%20(!document.getElementById(‘ASIN’))%20{alert(‘Can\’t%20find%20the%20product%20ID’);%20return;}%20prompt(‘here%20is%20the%20link:’,document.getElementById(‘ASIN’).baseURI%20+%20′/?tag=’%20+%20aff);})()

30. Joe McCarthy Says:
    September 29th, 2011 at 1:21 pm

    Oops, forgot to include the “value” method from the original code. That substitution should have read:

    document.getElementById(‘ASIN’).baseURI

    for

    ‘http://www.amazon.com/dp/‘ + document.getElementById(‘ASIN’).value

31. phaans Says:
    November 30th, 2011 at 1:38 am

    thanks, this is very useful information

32. Mr Rent a Site Says:
    December 14th, 2011 at 5:30 am

    So what’s the latest…

    Is there an Amzn update for this?

    Do people still get the credit for the sale using your tool?

    I see this was created 2 years ago… anyone test this recently?

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