Web Monetization
The Web Monetization API allows websites to automatically and passively receive payments from Web Monetization-enabled visitors.
Motivation
The ability to transfer money has been a long-standing omission from the web platform. As a result, the web suffers from a flood of advertising and broken business models. Web Monetization provides an open, native, efficient, and automatic way to compensate creators, pay for content, and support crucial web infrastructure.
Why Now?
Until recently, there hasn't been an open, neutral and cost-efficient protocol for transferring money. Interledger provides a simple, interoperable, and currency-agnostic method for the transfer of small amounts of money. This opens up the possibility for streaming money, which makes more Web Monetization use cases possible for the first time.
Web Monetization Tools
These tools enable Web Monetization features:
Hugo Web Monetization Component
Theme component that enables Web Monetization on your entire Hugo website
Monetize 11ty
An Eleventy plugin to monetize posts and site content by creating exclusive content areas
gridsome-plugin-monetization
Web Monetization plugin for Gridsome
gatsby-plugin-monetization
A Gatsby plugin for react-monetize to speed up your integration with Web Monetization
ngx-monetization
Web Monetization API for Angular
Vuepress Plugin Web-Monetization
Adds a Web Monetization meta tag to your VuePress website
Tessy
Advanced Web Monetization testing library with powerful declarative API
svelte-monetization
A minimal and lightweight wrapper for the Web Monetization API
Moodle Webmonetization Module
A plugin for adding a web monetization meta tag to your Moodle site
Jekyll + Webmonetization
A Jekyll plugin for adding a Web Monetization meta tag to your site
Pipe Web Monetization
Web monetize your WordPress website and access your revenue via an analytics dashboard
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Resources
Contributors
Thank you to all our contributors.
