Affiliate Marketing Verification & Protection

import axios from 'axios'

const proxy = {
  host: process.env.ZENTISLABS_PROXY_HOST,
  port: Number(process.env.ZENTISLABS_PROXY_PORT),
  auth: {
    username: process.env.ZENTISLABS_PROXY_USER,
    password: process.env.ZENTISLABS_PROXY_PASS, // e.g. PASS_country-de for a German exit IP
  },
}

async function verifyAffiliateLink(url: string, region: string) {
  const response = await axios.get(url, {
    proxy,
    timeout: 15000,
    maxRedirects: 0,
    validateStatus: (s) => s < 400,
    headers: {
      'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64)',
      'Accept-Language': `${region},en;q=0.9`,
    },
  })

  // traceRedirects, detectPixel, verifyCreative and checkCookies are your own helpers
  return {
    finalUrl: response.headers.location || url,
    redirectChain: await traceRedirects(url),
    hasTrackingPixel: detectPixel(response.data),
    landingPageMatch: verifyCreative(response.data),
    cookieCompliance: checkCookies(response.headers),
    timestamp: new Date().toISOString(),
  }
}