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Éclair 1.13: your old site via the Wayback Machine, and affiliate links

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Éclair 1.13: your old site via the Wayback Machine, and affiliate links
Contents
  1. What’s new in Éclair 1.13?
  2. What is the Old site tool for?
  3. How do you give the old addresses a page again?
  4. What does the AI keep from the old page?
  5. What does Google say about expired domains?
  6. How do you manage your affiliate links?
  7. Why is the advertising disclosure required?
  8. How does the AI write an affiliate article?
  9. How do you upgrade to Éclair 1.13?
  10. What this version does not do
  11. Frequently asked questions about Éclair 1.13

Éclair 1.13, released on November 4, 2026, adds two tools. Old site finds your domain’s old addresses in the Wayback Machine and gives each one a brand-new page, as a draft. Affiliate links gathers your affiliate links and adds the advertising disclosure for you. In both cases the AI writes, but nothing is published without you.

What’s new in Éclair 1.13?

New featureWhat it gives you
Old siteYour domain’s old addresses, found in the Wayback Machine, get a brand-new page or a 301 redirect
Affiliate linksAll your links in one place, with your notes on each product
Advertising disclosureAdded to every page, post or product that contains an affiliate link, and to the RSS feed
Affiliate articles by the AIA comparison, a product overview or a buying guide, as a draft, from your notes
Cost shownThe price of each AI call, before and after, within the monthly AI budget
Under the hood691 KB archive (1.33 MB unzipped), 65 new checks, 1,099 in total

Without affiliate links, your public pages stay identical to the byte.

What is the Old site tool for?

Are you relaunching a domain that already had a site? Other sites may still point to its old addresses, and those links now lead to an error. The Old site tool (Admin › Old site, administrators only) finds them and gives each one a page again.

Éclair queries the index of the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine. It only searches your site’s own domain: HTML pages archived up to the date you choose. It leaves out the home page, addresses with parameters, other domains and subdomains, addresses Éclair reserves and old .php addresses. Listing pages (tags, categories, authors, pagination, cart…) start unticked.

How do you give the old addresses a page again?

You need the AI assistant turned on and your site’s address entered in Settings. Then:

  1. Open Admin › Old site.
  2. Pick the date in Pages archived up to, then click Search the archive. The search can take up to a minute.
  3. Tick the addresses to rebuild. Leave out the ones that bring you nothing.
  4. If you wish, tick Also create one image per page: a brand-new cover image, with its cost shown.
  5. Click Rebuild the selected addresses. Éclair handles one address at a time; Stop after the current page lets you stop.
  6. Review each draft and complete it. Finally, click Publish the reviewed drafts.

The cost is shown before, per page, then after, in tokens and dollars, per address and in total. Everything stays within the monthly AI budget and the daily quota.

What does the AI keep from the old page?

Almost nothing, on purpose. From the capture, Éclair reads only the title, the main heading, the description and the language. The AI writes new text from the title alone. Neither the old text nor the old images are copied, and the old brand is never reused. When Éclair can serve the old address as it is, the draft keeps it. Otherwise, the old address redirects to the new page (301).

What does Google say about expired domains?

The page reminds you, with a link to Google’s rules: “Google penalises expired domains filled with pages of no value to visitors: review and enrich each page before publishing it.” Publishing a hundred pages without reading them is exactly what to avoid. Éclair helps: a draft that still contains “To complete” stays a draft, even when you click Publish the reviewed drafts.

In Admin › Affiliate links, click Add a link. Enter the Product or offer, paste the full Affiliate link (https://…), then fill in the Notes for the AI: who the product is for, its strengths, its limits, your opinion. With no notes, the AI will say nothing beyond its name.

Each link in the list is then marked rel="sponsored nofollow", as Google asks for paid links. No cloaked links and no redirects: each link goes straight to the merchant. From then on, Amazon links carrying your Associate ID and amzn.to short links count as well.

Why is the advertising disclosure required?

Because advertising must be clearly identifiable as such: in France, that is article 20 of the LCEN; in Spain, article 20 of the LSSI. An affiliate link earns you a commission, so it is advertising. Éclair adds the Advertising disclosure to every page, post or product that contains an affiliate link, and to the RSS feed.

If you remove a link from the list, pages that still contain it lose the disclosure (except an Amazon link with your Associate ID): remove it from your pages too.

How does the AI write an affiliate article?

  1. In Admin › Affiliate links, tick one or more links.
  2. Choose the Type of article: Comparison (2 to 10 links), Product overview (1 link) or Buying guide.
  3. Add a Main keyword if you like.
  4. Click Write with the selected links. The cost is shown before and after.
  5. The draft opens in the editor. Fill in each “To complete” with your own experience, then publish.

The AI writes from the product names and your notes, nothing else. It never sees the merchant’s description. It invents no price, rating, review or test result, and never writes as if it had tested the product. Your exact affiliate links are placed in the text; a product the AI did not link gets its own button.

How do you upgrade to Éclair 1.13?

The latest version is 2.0.0: it includes everything above.

See also the Éclair 1.10 article and the AI assistant.

What this version does not do

Frequently asked questions about Éclair 1.13

How much do the new Éclair 1.13 features cost?

Éclair stays free, under the AGPL-3.0 open-source licence. Only AI calls have a cost, shown in tokens and dollars before and after each piece of writing, within the monthly AI budget. Affiliate links and the advertising disclosure do not use the AI.

Does the AI copy the old site’s content?

No. Éclair reads only the title, main heading, description and language of the archived page. The AI writes new text from the title alone; neither the old text, nor the images, nor the old brand are reused.

Can I publish all the rebuilt pages at once?

Yes, with Publish the reviewed drafts, except those that still contain “To complete”. But Google penalises expired domains filled with pages of no value to visitors: review and enrich each page before publishing it.

Does the AI give prices or reviews of the products?

No. It invents no price, rating, review or test result, and never claims to have tested a product. It leaves “To complete” where your experience matters.

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