Tag: affiliate sites

If you have some affiliate links and are concerned about their presence then you can setup cron to check the links for you regularly. For this you need a very simple script (as below) and a cron entry (example further down).

#!/bin/bash –
#===============================================================================
#
#          FILE:  checklinks.sh
#
#         USAGE:  ./checklinks.sh
#
#   DESCRIPTION:  Check if the links exists on affiliate sites
#
#       OPTIONS:  —
#  REQUIREMENTS:  —
#          BUGS:  —
#         NOTES:  —
#        AUTHOR:  Amit Agarwal (AKA), amit.agarwal@amit-agarwal.co.in
#       COMPANY:  Individual
#       VERSION:  1.0
#       CREATED:  04/07/2010 08:19:29 AM IST
#      REVISION:  —
#===============================================================================

websites=\”space seperated website address like http://amit-agarwal.co.in http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in\”
echo \”Checking the sites for Links\”
echo $websites|tr \’ \’ \’\\n\’
echo
echo
for i in $websites
do
curl -s $i |grep amit-agarwal.co.in > /dev/null
if [ $? != 0 ]
then
echo \”Link not found on $i\”
fi
done

Then make a crontab entry like this:

40 08 * *  * (echo \”Subject: Link verification on affiliate sites @ `date`\”;<fullpath>/checklinks.sh) |/usr/sbin/sendmail <email>

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