A D B A N K
a random period-correct banner for your page, in one line
of HTML
1 PICK WHAT YOU WANT
2 A FEW OF THE ONES YOU COULD GET
Six at random out of … that match. Click any of
them to see where it came from, or grab the code for that one alone.
3 COPY THIS ONTO YOUR PAGE
Click-through:
4 LIVE PREVIEW — THIS IS THE CODE ABOVE, ACTUALLY RUNNING
Some text on your page, so you can see how the banner sits in it.
And some more underneath.
API
No key. Every parameter takes a comma-separated list, and anything unrecognised is ignored rather than erroring.
| Endpoint | |
|---|---|
GET /a |
302 to a random matching banner, never cached. The one you embed. |
GET /api/pick | the same choice as JSON |
GET /api/sample | n random ones at once |
GET /api/list |
page a filter, limit to 500, offset to page |
GET /api/facets | categories, languages, colours, sizes with counts |
GET /api/stats | corpus totals |
GET /frame |
one banner as a page, for an iframe. mode,
every, cooldown |
GET /b/<id> | where a banner came from |
GET /api/guestbook |
the guestbook, newest first. limit, offset |
GET /blob/<id> | one exact image, cached a year |
| Parameter | |
|---|---|
cat | … |
lang |
en latin lettering · zh any CJK
· none no text detected.
Use en,none for an English page. |
color |
the colour a banner reads as:
red orange yellow
green teal blue
purple pink brown
black gray white.
Measured off the pixels, ignoring transparent ones, so a
banner that is transparent behind blue text is
blue and not white. |
size | exact pixels, 468x60 |
CREDITS
adbank collected none of this. It republishes what other people archived:
| Banner Depot 2000 | 22,915 ads mined from Wayback snapshots by Richard Lewei Huang and Yufeng Zhao. CC BY 4.0. |
| Digital Ad Archive | Hand-written alt text and curated subjects. |
| GifCities | The Internet Archive's search over GeoCities GIFs. |
| Wayback CDX | DoubleClick, LinkExchange, Burst, ValueClick and the rest of the ad networks. |
| 88x31 collection | The canonical button wall. |
The short version. Full attribution, the people who drew and tested things, and everybody's buttons are on the credits page. Nothing is served until it has been screened for nudity. The filter is deliberately over-eager.
GUESTBOOK
Sign it if you put a banner on your page, or if you just came to look.
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Banners belong to whoever made them. No rights claimed.