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# Web Monetization

**repo:** [thomasbnt/awesome-web-monetization](https://github.com/thomasbnt/awesome-web-monetization)  
**category:** [[miscellaneous|Miscellaneous]]
**related:** [[front-end-development|Front End Development]]

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# Awesome Web Monetization [![Awesome](https://awesome.re/badge-flat2.svg)](https://awesome.re)

> Awesome stuffs about Web Monetization. Learn more, check modules and others tools.

**Web Monetization** is a web service that allows you to send money directly in your browser.
This is a JavaScript browser API that allows the creation of a payment stream from the user agent to the website

## Contents

- [About Web Monetization](#about-web-monetization)
- [How to start monetize my website](#how-to-start-monetize-my-website)
- [Resources](#resources)
  - [Packages](#packages)
  - [Tutorials](#tutorials)
  - [Articles](#articles)
  - [Newsletters](#newsletters)
  - [Tools](#tools)
  - [Community](#community)
- [Contribute](#contribute)
- [Donate](#donate)

## About Web Monetization

- [Webmonetization.org](https://webmonetization.org/)
- [Documentation](https://webmonetization.org/docs/)
- [How Web Monetization work for paying payments](https://webmonetization.org/docs/intro/sending-payments/)
- [How Web Monetization work for receiving payments](https://webmonetization.org/docs/intro/receiving-payments/)
- [Specifications](https://webmonetization.org/specification/)
- [ILP Forum (read only)](https://forum.interledger.org/)
- [Grant For The Web](https://www.grantfortheweb.org/)

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- [Interledger : Open protocol suite for sending payments across different ledgers](https://interledger.org/)

## How to start monetize my website

If you would like to monetize your content, you must have a Wallet and Provider account. See below the platforms that allow you to use them.

<details><summary>More details about Wallet and Provider account</summary>
<p>

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| **Wallets** |                                                                                             |                                                                                                                                                                                                         |     |
|:-----------:|:-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------:|:-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------:|:---:|
|    Name     | [![GateHub](https://webmonetization.org/img/logo-wallet-gatehub.svg)](https://gatehub.net/) | [New Wallet ?<br>Create a issue !](https://github.com/thomasbnt/awesome-web-monetization/issues/new?assignees=thomasbnt&labels=Wallet%2C+%E2%86%94+WM+repository&template=new-wallet.md&title=%5BWa%5D) |
|    Fees     |                   SEPA: 1.00 EUR < 50,000 EUR<br>Wire: $15 min ($150 max)                   |                                                                                                                                                                                                         |

| **Payments** |        |
|--------------|--------|
| Name         | Empty. |

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</p>
</details>

On your webpage, integrate your `monetization` tag on meta

```html
<link rel="monetization" href="https://ilp.example.com/alice">
```

and detect if `monetization` is possible, then work

```js
if (document.monetization) {
  document.monetization.addEventListener("monetizationstart", () => {
    console.log(
      "🎉 Awesome ! You use Web Monetization.\nMore information https://webmonetization.org",
    );
  });
}
```

## Resources

### Packages

_Any packages/modules and plugins_

- [monetize.js](https://github.com/sunchayn/monetize.js) - An event-driven library to manage and simulate Web Monetization. ![](assets/small_icons/javascript.png)
- [types-wm](https://github.com/dacioromero/types-wm) - TypeScript definitions for Web Monetization ![](assets/small_icons/typescript.png)
- [ngx-monetization (archived)](https://github.com/CDDelta/ngx-monetization) - Web Monetization API for [Angular](/@harrisonqian/awesome/wiki/front-end-development/angular). ![](assets/small_icons/angular.png)
- [react-hook-wm](https://github.com/dacioromero/react-hook-wm) - [React hooks](/@harrisonqian/awesome/wiki/front-end-development/react-hooks) for integrating with Web Monetization. ![](assets/small_icons/react.png)
- [react-monetize](https://github.com/guidovizoso/react-monetize) - Helpers and hooks to speed up your [integration](/@harrisonqian/awesome/wiki/platforms/integration) with Web Monetization API. ![](assets/small_icons/react.png)
- [ep_monetization](https://github.com/ISNIT0/ep_monetization) - Plugin for applying payment pointer meta tag to Etherpad site. ![](assets/small_icons/javascript.png)
- [wp-connect-coil](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-connect-coil/) - Plugin for applying Coil payment pointer meta tag to WordPress site. ![](assets/small_icons/wordpress.png)
- [xrptipbot-wordpress-widget](https://wordpress.org/plugins/widget-xrptipbot/) - WordPress Widget based on XRPTIPBOT embed code to donate content creators. ![](assets/small_icons/wordpress.png)
- [eleventy-plugin-monetization](https://github.com/DanCanetti/eleventy-plugin-monetization) - An Eleventy plugin to monetize posts and site content. ![](assets/small_icons/11ty.png)
- [web-monetization-components](https://github.com/philnash/web-monetization-components) - A collection of [web components](/@harrisonqian/awesome/wiki/front-end-development/web-components) you can use on your web monetized websites. ![](assets/small_icons/javascript.png)
- [revshare](https://github.com/kewbish/revshare) - A JS library for revenue sharing. ![](assets/small_icons/javascript.png)
- [web-monetization-proxy](https://github.com/tcdowney/web-monetization-proxy) - Simple Go proxy for injecting Web Monetization meta tags. ![](assets/small_icons/go.png)
- [gridsome-plugin-monetization](https://github.com/Sergix/gridsome-plugin-monetization) - Web monetization for Gridsome. ![](assets/small_icons/gridsome.png)
- [vuepress-plugin-web-monetization](https://github.com/spekulatius/vuepress-plugin-web-monetization) - Adds the web-monetization metatag to your VuePress website. ![](assets/small_icons/vuejs.png)
- [jekyll-web_monetization](https://github.com/philnash/jekyll-web_monetization) - A Jekyll plugin to add Web MonetizationAPI payment pointers to your site. ![](assets/small_icons/jekyll.png)
- [Monetization](https://github.com/KNawm/monetization) - A wrapper around the Web Monetization API to monetize [apps](/@harrisonqian/awesome/wiki/platforms/apps). ![](assets/small_icons/dart.png)
- [react-webmonetization-meta](https://github.com/uchibeke/react-webmonetization-meta) - A Web Monetization meta tag manager for [React](/@harrisonqian/awesome/wiki/front-end-development/react). ![](assets/small_icons/react.png)
- [web-monetization-[electron](/@harrisonqian/awesome/wiki/platforms/electron)-app](https://github.com/Jasmin2895/web-monetization-electron-app) - Project demonstrate basic setup to enable web monetization in [Electron](/@harrisonqian/awesome/wiki/platforms/electron) App. ![](assets/small_icons/electron.png)
- [web-monetized-video](https://github.com/Jasmin2895/web-monetized-video) - A web component with has play and pay policy and charges you for the amount of video watched. ![](assets/small_icons/javascript.png)
- [web-monetization-polyfill](https://github.com/immers-space/web-monetization-polyfill/) - Ensure the [JavaScript](/@harrisonqian/awesome/wiki/programming-languages/javascript) Web Monetization API is available, even in environments with Content [Security](/@harrisonqian/awesome/wiki/security/security) Policies enabled. ![](assets/small_icons/javascript.png)
- [web-monetization-video-ads](https://www.npmjs.com/package/web-monetization-video-ads) - Linking Web Monetization with video [advertising](/@harrisonqian/awesome/wiki/miscellaneous/advertising) to allow a freemium business model to be implemented for Web Monetization. ![](assets/small_icons/javascript.png)
- [web-monetization-revenue-share](https://www.npmjs.com/package/web-monetization-revenue-share) - Automated redistribution of funds to a community via smart contracts. ![](assets/small_icons/javascript.png)
- [awesome-jsgames](https://github.com/proyecto26/awesome-jsgames) - A curated list of [awesome](/@harrisonqian/awesome/wiki/miscellaneous/awesome) [JavaScript](/@harrisonqian/awesome/wiki/programming-languages/javascript) Games ![](assets/small_icons/javascript.png)
- [mediadisclosures](https://github.com/oofdere/mediadisclosures) - An open-source, always evolving, universal content rating system. ![](assets/small_icons/javascript.png)
- [web-monetization-demo](https://github.com/peter279k/web-monetization-demo) - This is a Web Monetization Demo ![](assets/small_icons/javascript.png)
- [money-chat](https://github.com/dfoderick/money-chat) - Web Monetization chat app ![](assets/small_icons/javascript.png)

### Tutorials

- [Getting started](https://webmonetization.org/docs/guides/monetize-page/) - Official documents from webmonetization.org.
- [Exclusive content](https://webmonetization.org/docs/guides/provide-exclusive-content/) - Put exclusive content on your website.
- ['A Web Monetization Story'](https://esse-dev.[github](/@harrisonqian/awesome/wiki/development-environment/github).io/a-web-monetization-story/) - An interactive, story-based Web Monetization tutorial for online creators.
- [Web Monetization like I'm 5](https://dev.to/hacksultan/web-monetization-like-i-m-5-1418) - Monetizing the web!

### Articles

- [Monetizing Content in View](https://dev.to/godwinagedah/monetizing-content-in-view-paying-for-what-you-see-462a) - Paying for what you see.
- [Web Components](https://dev.to/philnash/web-components-for-the-web-monetization-api-4ed9) - For the Web Monetization API (serie).

### Newsletters

- [Newsletter of grantfortheweb.org](https://www.grantfortheweb.org/signup) - Sign up for email updates.

### Tools

- [Probabilistic Revshare Generator - Web Monetization](https://webmonetization.org/prob-revshare/) - Probabilistic revenue sharing (revshare) is one way to share a portion of a web monetized pages earnings between multiple payment pointers.

  > Use this tool to define a list of payment pointers and their weights.
  > Then, add the generated monetization link element to your site.
  > The link will contain a unique URL hosted on https://webmonetization.org/api/revshare/pay/.
  > If you'd prefer to not use a hosted URL, you can set up revshare by adding a script to your site.

- [Is web monetized](https://github.com/jkga/is-web-monetized) - A very simple tool for checking if Web Monetization is enabled.

  > ```bash
  > npm install is-web-monetized -g
  > monetized example.com
  > ```
  >
  > You can also test your website with the dependency.

- [Paytrackr](https://github.com/thomasbnt/paytrackr) - (Forked from [wobsoriano/paytrackr](https://github.com/wobsoriano)) - Track and manage your micropayments into one place.

  > PayTrackr is the easiest and safest way to track and manage your micropayments to web monetized websites, having a web monetization provider membership.

- [Akita](https://github.com/esse-dev/akita) - A browser extension that gives you insight into your involvement with Web Monetization.

  > Akita presents your top visited monetized sites, how much time you're spending on them, and how much you're contributing (or could contribute) to them.

- [Open Monetization Wallet](https://github.com/kristianfreeman/openmonetizationwallet) - Tools for managing your vanity Web Monetization wallet.

  > Open Monetization Wallet (OMW) makes it easier to accept payments with the Web Monetization API at scale. Some features:
  >
  > - Custom wallet URLs: own your own "Payment Pointer", e.g. $wallet.signalnerve.com, instead of $pay.stronghold.co/abcdef123
  > - Change between wallets/providers with no downtime
  > - Logs of incoming payment requests
  > - Revenue sharing between multiple wallets, e.g. for multiple team members
  > - Infinitely scalable with serverless technology
  > - Free and open-source

### Community

- [Web Monetization Community](https://community.interledger.org/)
- [@GrantForTheWeb on Twitter](https://twitter.com/GrantForTheWeb)
- [Web Monetization tag on DEV](https://dev.to/t/webmonetization)

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## Contribute

Contributions welcome ! Read the [contribution guidelines](contributing.md) first.
You can also contribute to share this repository and Web Monetization with your friends. 😄

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