Extracting the article id
Every publisher account has an origin and a landing page base path. These are configured under account settings in Advisible Console. If the origin is https://www.example.com and the base path is sponsored/, then the landing page URL is https://www.example.com/sponsored/articleId, where articleId is the unique id of the article.
The above example uses a dynamic route, meaning that the server will respond to everything under https://www.example.com/sponsored/. This is the recommended approach whenever possible. However, a fixed path can be used instead if dynamic routing is not a viable option.
When the landing page is loaded, the article id must be extracted from the URL. This table shows three different approaches:
| Routing | Base path | Extraction command |
| Dynamic path | sponsored/ | window.location.pathname.split('/')[2] |
| Fixed path using search | sponsored?id= | new URLSearchParams(window.location.search).get('id') |
| Fixed path using hash | sponsored# | window.location.hash.slice(1) |