Clickbank Instant Notification
Clickbank is strange that way. Everyone else would have called it an API. But it seems now that you can have sales notifications sent to a url specified by you. It uses a POST function.
Here is how it works:
- An action occurs in the ClickBank system (ex sale, rebill, refund, etc)
- ClickBank posts FORM parameters to a URL you specify
- ClickBank observes the server response
- A program you build processes the variables
This works right into my idea for a tag based contextual Clickbank widget. It would have to adjust itself based on sales and click through rate. Instant sales notifications would make that possible.
Here are more details.
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paypal calls it’s callback API “instant notification” too.
Go figure.
It’s not an API – you cannot do anything with it other than receive data… They got the name correct…
anyone looking for a FREE web application that will send you ClickBank alerts each time you make a sale as an affiliate, and log your transactions so they can be presented without having to log into ClickBank, can download CB Alert from my site.
Cheers.
Stephen Carter
Actually, an API is a “set of routines, data structures, object classes and protocols in order to support the building of applications”. As long as it sends and/or receives data in some way, it can be called an API.
This is largely left to the developer or company themselves as to what they would like to call it.
So, calling it an API is fine if that’s what they have chosen to call it.
If you want to learn all the in’s and out’s of API, do a search on Wikipedia for API. They have a giant page on the subject. It’s pretty cool for us programmer types BTW.
Peace,
Patrick