Posted by: Greg Lems, VP of Information Technology

Please note: This post is intended for readers with knowledge of web programming.

Some Clickbank clients have expressed the desire to retrieve transaction information from their accounts programmatically. In the future, we expect to implement a web-based solution for programmatic access to client data.

For now, clients who wish to programmatically access their Clickbank account data can do so using a special link on the Clickbank site that creates a CSV file with one day’s worth of transactions from an account. A sample of PHP code which accesses this data is shown below. However, any language which provides http access and session management can be used to access Clickbank account data.

To access Clickbank transaction data, a program must perform two operations:

1)      Authenticate by performing an HTTPS POST to https://nickname.accounts.clickbank.com/account/login (note: no trailing slash) and passing authentication information (see example below for specifics).

2)      Call the CSV download URL for the desired date. The format of the request is:

https://nickname.accounts.clickbank.com/account/dailyTxnCsv.htm?dt=YYYY-MM-DD

Below is an example of PHP code which authenticates, calls the CSV, then parses the data and prints it out. Make sure to replace ACCOUNT_NICKNAME and ACCOUNT_PASSWORD with your appropriate credentials, and select the date you want (in this example we use 2008-11-06).

<?php

# Get transactions for 2008-11-06

#

$account_nickname = ‘<ACCOUNT NICKNAME>’;

$baseurl = “https:// <https:/> ” . $account_nickname . “.accounts.clickbank.com”;

$login_args = array(

‘j_username’ => $account_nickname,

‘j_password’ => ‘ACCOUNT_PASSWORD’

);

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POST, 1);

curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);

curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);

curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HEADER, 1);

curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);

curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, ‘cookie.txt’);

curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL,

$baseurl.’/account/login’);

curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, http_build_query($login_args));

$login = curl_exec($curl);

curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);

curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL,

$baseurl.’/account/dailyTxnCsv.htm?dt=2008-11-06?);

$csvfile = curl_exec($curl);

curl_close ($curl);

$lines = explode(“\n”, $csvfile);

foreach ($lines as $line) {

if (strlen($line) > 0) {

list($date,$time,$receipt,$tid,$pmt,$txntype,$item,$amount,$publisher,

$affiliate,$countrycode,$state,$lastname,$firstname,$email) = explode(“,”, $line);

printf(“%-20s %s\n”,”Date:”, $date);

printf(“%-20s %s\n”,”Time:”, $time);

printf(“%-20s %s\n”,”Receipt”, $receipt);

printf(“%-20s %s\n”,”Tracking ID:”, $tid);

printf(“%-20s %s\n”,”Payment Type:”, $pmt);

printf(“%-20s %s\n”,”Transaction Type:”, $txntype);

printf(“%-20s %s\n”,”Item:”, $item);

printf(“%-20s %s\n”,”Amount:”, $amount);

printf(“%-20s %s\n”,”Publisher:”, $publisher);

printf(“%-20s %s\n”,”Affiliate:”, $affiliate);

printf(“%-20s %s\n”,”Country Code:”, $countrycode);

printf(“%-20s %s\n”,”State:”, $state);

printf(“%-20s %s\n”,”Lastname:”, $lastname);

printf(“%-20s %s\n”,”Firstname:”, $firstname);

printf(“%-20s %s\n”,”Email:”, $email);

echo “—————\n”;

}

}

?>

Fields returned for each line in the CSV file:

By using this type of script, you should be able to get all the information you need about ClickBank transactions in your account. Let me know if you have any questions or concerns by leaving a comment.

About Beau Blackwell

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