From 4bfe82d56c1961b9e5c5f19c911724ce2dcc74ec Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: CitizenZM <59761612+CitizenZM@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Tue, 12 May 2026 23:16:10 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] awin: document advertiser dashboard scraping MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cookie banner blocks lazy-loaded KPIs even after domcontentloaded — dismiss before waiting for content. Login success must be detected by visible text, not URL, because id.awin.com keeps "/login" in URL through password handoff. Includes regex extractors for yesterday + 7-day KPIs, top-5 partner bar chart values (zero-width space U+200B separator), and partnership list rows. Also notes the Publisher Performance page is canvas-rendered and not DOM-scrapable — use CSV export or screenshot. --- .../domain-skills/awin/scraping.md | 202 ++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 202 insertions(+) create mode 100644 agent-workspace/domain-skills/awin/scraping.md diff --git a/agent-workspace/domain-skills/awin/scraping.md b/agent-workspace/domain-skills/awin/scraping.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..4f9b4661 --- /dev/null +++ b/agent-workspace/domain-skills/awin/scraping.md @@ -0,0 +1,202 @@ +# Awin (app.awin.com) — Advertiser dashboard scraping + +Awin's advertiser dashboard is a Vue/React SPA hosted on `app.awin.com`, with auth on `id.awin.com`. KPI tiles, charts, and tables render asynchronously after the SPA boots, behind a cookie banner that blocks lazy load until dismissed. + +## URL patterns + +| Page | URL | +|---|---| +| Login | `https://app.awin.com/login` (redirects to `id.awin.com/u/login/identifier?...`) | +| User home (account picker) | `https://ui.awin.com/user` | +| Advertiser home | `https://app.awin.com/en/awin/advertiser/{merchant_id}/home` | +| Publisher Performance report | `https://app.awin.com/en/awin/advertiser/{merchant_id}/reports/publisher-performance` | +| All partnerships | `https://app.awin.com/en/awin/advertiser/{merchant_id}/partnerships/all` | +| Commissions | `https://app.awin.com/en/awin/advertiser/{merchant_id}/commissions` | +| Campaigns (new UI) | `https://app.awin.com/en/awin/advertiser/{merchant_id}/campaigns` | + +Merchant IDs are stable integers (5–7 digits) — read them off the URL after picking an account on `ui.awin.com/user`. The same advertiser brand may have separate IDs per region (US / EU / APAC). + +## Login flow + +Two-step: email → Continue → password → Sign in. Note that after successful login the URL still contains `/login` for a moment (`id.awin.com/u/login/password?...` → `ui.awin.com/user`) — **detect success by visible text ("Your Accounts", "Manage Accounts", "Advertiser Reports"), not by URL.** + +```python +async () => { + // dismiss cookie banner first — it blocks lazy-loaded KPIs + const ck = [...document.querySelectorAll('button')].find(b => /accept all/i.test(b.textContent||'')); + if (ck) ck.click(); + + const email = document.querySelector('input[type="email"], input[name="username"]'); + if (email) { email.focus(); email.value = EMAIL; + email.dispatchEvent(new Event('input', {bubbles:true})); + email.dispatchEvent(new Event('change', {bubbles:true})); + } + const cont = [...document.querySelectorAll('button')].find(b => /continue/i.test(b.textContent)); + if (cont) cont.click(); + // wait ~3s for password page transition + const pw = document.querySelector('input[type="password"]'); + if (pw) { pw.focus(); pw.value = PASSWORD; + pw.dispatchEvent(new Event('input', {bubbles:true})); + pw.dispatchEvent(new Event('change', {bubbles:true})); + } + const submit = [...document.querySelectorAll('button')].find(b => /sign in|log in|submit/i.test(b.textContent)); + if (submit) submit.click(); +} +``` + +## The cookie-banner trap + +If the cookie banner ("Cookies and privacy") is still visible, the advertiser home renders **only skeleton placeholders** — gray bars where KPI cards should be. `wait_for_load()` returns immediately because the SPA is "ready," but the actual data fetches are deferred until the banner is dismissed. Symptom: screenshot shows three loading dots and a sidebar full of gray rectangles. + +**Always dismiss the banner before waiting for content.** Dismiss runs on every page visit, not just login — Awin re-shows it on some routes. + +## Skeleton-load polling pattern + +`domcontentloaded` + a fixed `sleep(6)` is not enough. The home page can take 8–15s for KPI tiles to render. Poll for either: + +1. Skeleton placeholder count to drop below ~5: `[class*=skeleton],[class*=Skeleton],[class*=placeholder]` +2. Specific KPI text to appear: `Revenue`, `Transactions`, `Clicks`, `Performance` + +```js +async () => { + const skel = document.querySelectorAll('[class*=skeleton],[class*=Skeleton],[class*=placeholder]').length; + const txt = document.body.innerText || ''; + return { skel, ready: skel < 5 && txt.length > 800 }; +} +``` + +Poll every 1s, max 45s. Also do a slow scroll to bottom + back to top — it triggers IntersectionObserver-driven lazy mounts for sections below the fold. + +## Where the real data lives + +Awin renders KPIs in styled `

`/`` blocks, NOT in `` elements. The home page exposes everything in `document.body.innerText` in a predictable order: + +``` + () +Home +Campaigns +... +Revenue + Yesterday + +% +Transactions + Yesterday + +% +Clicks + Yesterday + +% +... +Revenue trend +Last 7 days + +% +... +Top partners + Yesterday +Chart +Bar chart with 5 bars. +... +​ ← value doubled with U+200B zero-width space between +​ +... +0 + + + ← partner names in same order as bar values + + + + +See publisher performance report +``` + +**Regex extractors that work** (Python; currency in `$€£`): + +```python +# Yesterday tile (revenue/txns/clicks): +re.findall(r"(Revenue|Transactions|Clicks)\s+\w+\s+\d+\s+\d{4}\s+Yesterday\s+([$€£]?[\d,\.]+)\s+(-?[\d\.]+)%", raw) + +# 7-day trend: +re.search(r"Revenue trend\s+Last 7 days\s+([$€£][\d,\.]+)\s+(-?[\d\.]+)%", raw) + +# Top-5 bar chart values (note zero-width space U+200B between the duplicate): +re.findall(r"([$€£][\d,\.]+)​[$€£][\d,\.]+", raw) +``` + +The Top-5 partner *names* sit between `End of interactive chart.` and `See publisher performance report` — split that slice by newline, drop axis labels (`$0`, `$400`, `$800`, `End of...`). + +## Publisher Performance page + +`/reports/publisher-performance` renders an embedded Looker/BI iframe. The default view ships with **no date range applied** — `document.body.innerText` returns essentially just the page chrome ("Take a quick tour", "Need help? Ask Ava", "Date Last Refreshed - ...") plus an empty canvas. To get tabular data you must click into the date selector and the visualization first; even then most data is canvas-rendered and unreachable via DOM. + +**Recommended workaround**: skip DOM scraping here. Either +1. Use the full-page screenshot for visual evidence in the report, or +2. Export the report via Awin's CSV download (button: "Export → CSV") — the URL is a signed S3 link, easy to grab via the network panel. + +## Partnerships ("All partnerships") page + +`/partnerships/all` is the best source for publisher details — it's plain DOM, fully scrapable. Default sort is `Joined: Newest-to-oldest`, ~10 rows per page, ~197 pages for an established program (use the `1 2 3 ⋯ 197` pager). + +Each row follows this exact `innerText` block — extractable with one regex: + +``` + + +Status +Partners ← or "Pending" or "Left your program" +Website + +Primary promotional type + ← may be empty string! +Primary sector + +Partners since ← or "Left on" + +``` + +```python +re.compile( + r"([A-Za-z][\w\s\.,&\-\(\)']{1,60})\n(\d{4,7})\nStatus\nPartners\n" + r"Website\n([^\n]+)\n" + r"Primary promotional type\n([^\n]*)\n" + r"Primary sector\n([^\n]*)\n" + r"Partners since\n([A-Z][a-z]{2,8} \d{1,2}, \d{4})" +) +``` + +**Trap**: `Primary promotional type` can be blank (the line below it is just `\n`). Don't require non-empty — capture as `[^\n]*` not `[^\n]+`. Status can also be `Pending` (visible above `Your partnerships` count) or `Left your program` — those rows have `Left on` instead of `Partners since`. + +## Account picker (`ui.awin.com/user`) + +After login, users with multiple advertiser accounts land here. The page lists each account with merchant ID. To jump straight to a specific advertiser, skip the picker and navigate directly to `https://app.awin.com/en/awin/advertiser/{merchant_id}/home` — Awin's auth carries across, no click required. + +## Network APIs (worth investigating, not yet documented) + +The dashboard hits `https://app.awin.com/api/...` and `https://api.awin.com/...` endpoints with bearer tokens stored in `localStorage`. Direct API calls would be 10×+ faster than DOM scraping. Untested but visible XHRs: + +- `GET /api/advertiser/{mid}/dashboard/kpi?period=yesterday` +- `GET /api/advertiser/{mid}/publishers?sort=joined_desc&page=1` + +Next agent on this domain: drop into DevTools Network tab on a fresh dashboard load, copy the bearer header, and replay. If the bearer is in `localStorage` rather than an HttpOnly cookie, the scraper can grab it via `js("localStorage.getItem('access_token')")` and bulk-fetch. + +## Isolated profile pattern (concurrent with MCP browser) + +The MCP Playwright server locks `~/Library/Caches/ms-playwright/mcp-chrome-*` exclusively. To run a second scraper concurrently without disturbing the user's active MCP session, launch your own persistent context with a different `user_data_dir`: + +```python +from playwright.sync_api import sync_playwright +PROFILE = Path.home() / ".cache" / "awin-isolated-profile" +PROFILE.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True) +with sync_playwright() as p: + ctx = p.chromium.launch_persistent_context( + user_data_dir=str(PROFILE), + headless=True, + viewport={"width": 1600, "height": 1000}, + args=["--disable-blink-features=AutomationControlled", "--no-sandbox"], + ) +``` + +Persistent profile means session cookies survive between runs — login once, scrape many times. After the first successful login, subsequent runs land directly on the dashboard.