Building Amazon Affiliates links

Question

How can I generate an Amazon affiliates link (with my Tracking ID) from a regular link without using Amazon online tools ?

Answer 1

Here's an easy tutorial that should get you started. And this page at Amazon should fill in some gaps about ASINs, especially the section entitled: "Is there an automated way to create Associates links if I have the 13-digit ISBN?" Here's another relevant article.

You are not very specific on how you want to generate them or how many you will be generating, but there's an online tool written by Eri Robillard that uses WebForms and XML Web Services. If it's a small number of links you want to make by hand, it looks like a good tool.
If you're looking to generate them programatically, you might be able to get permission from him to screenscrape his site, or maybe he'd provide you with source code. I can't find what restrictions (if any) he puts on its use.

Answer 2

Essentially replace ASIN and trackingId within this URL:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/{ASIN}/?tag={trackingId}

Answer 3

Affiliaters.in a site that provide you that functionality.

If you are a affiliater than just put your amazon aff_id when signup and paste a link in there is no aff_id others or with others aff_id. This site will automaticlly remove others aff_id and put yours.

And more than that it short your link too for you

Answer 4

While I don't have an answer, a good start would be to compare the elements of the affiliate link from the tracking tool to the identifiers on the item page.

From what I recall every Amazon product has a unique identifier (ISBN for books) and this identifier, along with your tracking ID, is stored in the affiliate links.

It should be rather straightforward to reverse engineer the format.

Answer 5

Someone mentioned an easy way in my post here.

He told me to use an easy redirect service called asin.info which forwards your partner id. You can easily generate the Link on the webpage or just use this syntax:

http://asin.info/{asincode}/{partnerid}