Simple Affiliate System for Django

This is a very simple library that can be used to provide affiliate links in your django application. It is intentionally very lightweight, allowing your application to do whatever it wants with the data.

The project is very loosely inspired by the django-affiliate library, though seeks to provide a lighter-weight way to provide the core set of functionality without requiring the use of any additional data models.

If you are looking for a more heavyweight/comprehensive solution you may be better off with django-affiliate.

How it Works

You give a code to each partner you want to send links to your application. They choose a link that includes their code in an aid parameter in the URL. E.g.

http://example.com/?aid=12345

This code is saved in the django session using a middleware, which also adds the id to the request as request.affiliate_id (note: the ID will also be added if there was no URL param but an id was found already in the session).

Then you can use whatever custom processing logic you want on the request.affiliate_id throughout the rest of your code.

Requirements

• python (only tested on 3.5 but should work in 2.7)
• django (only tested in 1.11 but might work with older versions)

Quick start

1. Install this package to your python distribution

pip install django-simple-affiliate

2. Add 'simple_affiliate.middleware.affiliate_middleware' to MIDDLEWARE:

MIDDLEWARE = (
    # ...
    'simple_affiliate.middleware.affiliate_middleware',
)

3. Reward / track affiliate

if request.affiliate_id and made_some_cash(request):
    pay_affiliate_by_id(request.affiliate_id, dollar_value(request)

Project Todos

• [] Add / document expiration timeout functionality
• [] Add tests