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 Wallets

These providers offer ILP-enabled wallets that you can use to become Web Monetized:

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Web Monetization Enabled Search Engines

These search engines implement Web Monetization features:

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Web Monetization Tools

These tools enable Web Monetization features:

Astro Monetization

This Astro component simplifies the process of adding monetization links to your Astro sites.

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

react-monetize

Helpers and hooks to speed up your integration with Web Monetization API

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

Documentation

Resource on how to add Web Monetization to your site.

Specification

The formal specification.

An awesome list of additional Web Monetization resources.

Contributors

Thank you to all our contributors.